FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1932.
‘DERBY’GAME TO-MORROW
...
IN BIRMINGHAM
CUP HOLDERS AT HOME
WILL THE CORINTHIANS ELIMINATE
SHEFFIELD UNITED?
CUP AND LEAGUE FIXTURES
ENGLISH LEAGUE.
ENGLISH CUP.
The following in the draw for the Third Round of the F.A. Cup to be played to-morrow:- Brighton v. Port Vale Sunderland v. Southampton Barnsley Tottenham V.
Third Division. (South).
Brentford v. Mansfield Town
Darlington
CHINA MAIL.
THE
Second Division. HOME.
AWAY..
Goala
P. W. L. D. F. A.P Leeds United ...117 2 2 2 1 16 Wolverhampton .12 10 1 1 43 7 21 Bradford...
.13 11 1 1 30 Stoke City 11 8 0 Bury ***** Plymouth A Notts County Southampton
Millwall
Forest
Bradford C. Burnley
Port Vale Oldham Chesterfield Swankes T. Barnaley
Manchester U. Preston N.E. Charlton A.
Bristol C.
13 5 5 3
.11 6 2 3 19
3 5 2 16
Geala
Goals Total
P. W. L.-D. F. A.Ft. Pia, 12.8 2 2 19. 15.... 18
11 1 8
Crystal Palace
2 6 4
Third Division (South).
HOME
P. W. L. D. F. A.Pts.
9 7 1 1 18 5, 15 ,10 7 2 1 34 17 15 12 9 2 33 11 20 11 7 0 4 27 8 18 137 24 14
11 7
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
Bournemouth
Bristol R.
Swindon Town
Mansfield T.
Cardin C
Clapton 0.
Gillingham
Thames
4
28 20 12 15. 20
AWAY.
12
Goals Total
13 175 18 32 2 18 27 2 10
Coventry C V.
Norwich C.
V.
Southport
Gillingham
V. Swindon T.
Brentford Fulham
Wednesday
Plymouth
V.
Manchester U.
Grimsby
V.
Exeter
Chesterfield
Y
Natts Forest
Halifax
V.
Bournemouth
Arsenal
V.
Darwen
Bradford
Y
Cardiff
Luton
V.
Wolves
Barrow
Chester
Gateshead
Lincoln C.
V.
V.
Third Division (North).
Carlisle U.
Doncaster R.
v. Accrington S.
Exeter C.
P. W. L. D. F. A. Pts. Pts. 12 7 3 24 17 16 31 12 5
5-34 28 22 14 11 4 6 16 27 9.
29
10 3 5 2 15 22
Norwich C
18
8 3 3 2 8 10
··
26
Brighton
Watford
Southend U.
Y
Rochdale
Luton
8 4 1 S 13 4 11 Park R. 11 5 3 3 25 18 13
C. Coventry
12 M 16 16 9 16 T.
15
11 7 3 1 26 14 16 16 119 11 30 14
14 19 19
37 10
19
11 27.2 18 28
11 2 7 2 18 23
18
11 18 4 19
11 * 4 3 19
13 5 5 3 24 25 13
24
18
11
24
12
123 8 1 19
26
Oldham
V
Huddersfield
N. Brighton
V.
Wrexham
11
5 4 2 21 18 12
Blackpool
V.
Newcastle
12
6 2 4 31
16
ና
Northampton
Walsal
v. Stockport C.
14 30
Crook Town
V.
Leicester
Torquay
U.
4 4 4 25 24
Preston
1.
Holton W.
127 16
West Brom.
Aston Villa
Brentford
V.
Bath
Northampton T. 10
2 14 12
10
14 13 11
Bury
Y
Swansea
2 5 4 13 15 ४
11
I
Sheffield U.
Y
Middlesbro'
V.
Portsmouth
Third Division (North).
Notts C.
V
Bristol C.
HOME.
AWAY.
Charlton
።
West Ham
Burton Town v.
Blackburn
Ayr United Celtic
V.
Lelth Ath.
Goals
Queen's P.R. v.
Leeds U.
Cowdenbeath v.
v. Aberdeen
Falkirk
Birmingham V.
Stoke C.
V.
Hull City
V.
Hamilton A.
P. W. L. D. F. A.Pts.
.10 9 1 0 34 $18 10 8 1 1 33 7 17 12 9 1 2 43 18 20
12 7 3 + 26 9 16 12 6 4 2 24 20 14 10 4 5 1 15 15 9
34
31
20
Tranmere
V.
Chelsea
V.
Morton
Burnley
*
Derby
V.
Kilmarnock
Watford
V.
Fulham
Partick T.
V.
Dundee U.
Millwall
Manchester C.
St. Mirren
v.
Rangers
Everton
v. Liverpool
Third Lanark v.
Queen's Park
Corinthians
First Division. Airdrieonians v. Clyde
Bradford C.
Dundee Hearts Motherwell
Goals
AWAY.
Total
Goals Total
P. W. L. D. F. A. Pts. Pts.
THERE IS SPORT IN SOCCER
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
(By J. A. H. Catton.)
period,
| in "these" collactive · movements.
That was the fellowship-of-Sport..! Remember we are discussing tha days when football clubs warn few, writes J. A’“H, Cotton in The Evening Standard. When there were "alphabat matches”—that is, between men whose surnamesi bé- gan with letters between "A" and "M" and between: "N" and "Z.” There used to be 20 a side. They were gradually reduced to 11, and players generally carried, a coln in the palms of their hands and had to keep them closed..
Charging.
The sport of Association foot see these rude revelries regarded ball? There are some cynical and the players as harmless lunatics. ardent upholders of amateurism That was the felling era. who declare that there is no sport
Next came the addling in the professional phase of what when one man was trifling with was once purely a pastime. To me the bali, tapping it along by what The falling, fiddling and fellow- there is as much sport in every, we call nowadays dribbling. In ship eras gradually brought the Football League match as in a Test that stage of development the football pastime which we know match between the cricketers of dribbler
was one who tried to-day. There was plenty of lusty, England and Australla.
to thrust himself and the ball hearty, chivalrous Sport in those Each of these eleven is eager to between and past opponents to- far away times. Then some men Introduced a Cup to play for, and win. That is the only end in view. warda the goal of ambition. The win-at-any-price policy may generally had what was called with this came the advent of the become a weariness of the flesh to "backer-up," to whom he gave the the players and long drawn out ball when he could no longer force agony to the spectators, but vie-his way by his tapping tricks. · tory counts for more than the gume, for more than Sport.
Old Men Told Me---
He
&
one-man
paid footballer. But Cup matches were au few and fickle that, the League system with points for win- This idea of sheer individual ning or drawing was invented. effort gave place to pasaing. The Then it was that the Sport of foot- ball grew leas and it became neces- Sport was no longer a In the long ago there were other effort. The duty of the backer-up sary to remind players that knock- ideas-especially in relation to applied to all. This was the Ing a man down, felling him, was football. Old men who played in fraternal phase and was cultivated not Sport
The lawmakors altered a rule of the early "sixties" told me when by the Royal Engineers
the game and said: I was a youngster that the greatest Chatham lines. - fun among the football plonears of The Sappers, who made the first seventy years ago was to knock a football tour on record, demon- man down. Directly he had posses-strated, the immense advantage. of sion of the ball crash him to earth. passing the ball-not merely to a That was the Sport which produced backer-up, but to any man on the this sentence was inserted as part hearty laughter,
same side. Hence came collective of a law. It was a fundamental the part of the sport before the Foot- The play was just a rough and Sport which we describe as tumble, and those who happened to combination game. All took part ball Association and the Intersa-
Motherwell
Rangers
Celtic
St Mirren Third Lanark Kilmarnock Abordeez Hearts Partick T.
Cowdenbeath Clyde
Hamilton A.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
First Division. HOME.
Grals
P. W. L. D. F. A.Pis.
13 12 0 1 53 13 10 1 2 40 13 9 2 2 49 14 10 2 2
9 2
9 25
7
11 12
7 22 14 20 35 13 22 40 19 19 10 1 1 36 12 21 8 1 5 26 11 ZI
8. 3 2 262 6 3 2
8 3 4 23
45 14
24 19 29.29
5 2 352
3 33 23
15
AWAY.
Gonts
од
"Charging is permissible, but
it must not be violent nër dan- gerous."
How the old boys laughed when
tional Board were heard of.
A charge has never been defined, but it became necessary to em- phasise the legitimate way of knocking a man down.
The Game Was A Game. All these aspects of the game passed in review as I watched the England and Wales match in the gloom at Liverpool because this 43 struggle simply palpitated with 35 fine old sport-with felling op
Total P. W. L. D. F. A. Pix. Pts.
2..4 30. 17 18 2 2 23 16 16 35.21 17 13 81 19
14 6 6 2
22
11
3 6 5 16
63 14 25 1 2 13 34 1 10 2 14 36
13
5 10 14
22
12 19 10
14 36
19
18 26
19
32
18
Falkirk
10
7 3 11, 25
18
Morton
T
13
4 6 3
8. 28,
2 13
Ayr United
Airdrieonians
13
14
6 8 1 22 26 11
13 1 8 R18 32
6
2 20 25 10
11 5.
10 0
0
10
Dundee U.
0 10
733
3
8
Leith Athletic
13 4 4 5 14 20 13 7 0 20 27 12
14 1 11 2 15 53 13 0 10 3 13 52
3
ENGLISH LEAGUE TABLES TO DATE.
Everlan West Bromwich Liverpool Shefeld Newcastle U. Aston Villa
Arsenal
Huddersfield T.
Wedaraday
Birmingham
Bolton W.
Porough
West Ham Ü.
Chelsea
Manchester C. Blackburn R. Derby C. Leicester City Sunderland Blackpool Grimsby T.
First Division. HOME
P. W. L. D. F. A. Pts.
10 0 1 0 51 15 18 12 7 2 3 25 7 17
13 9 13 41 23 21
12 8 3 1 33 19 17 11 9 1 1 31 13 19
11 9 2 0 40 17
10 4 2 4 21
13.38 13 19
12 10 2 0 27 12 20
15 15
1 15 16 1
3 2 26 18
223 21
7 4 0 25
21 14
11 4 3 4 23 19
12 8 2 2 32 14
12 6 5 1 30 28 13
12 4 5 3 21 23 11
12 5 5 2 23
Conls
P. W. L. D. F. A. Pts. Pls.
13 6 6 1 27
12 52 17
10 3 61 12 E 6 i 12 E 6 ! 12 4
Lincoln City Gateshead Crowe A.
York City
Southport Accrington 9. Darlington Tranmere 2. Chester Wrexham Η ΤΕΧΝ Hull City Stockport C.
Barrow
Hartlepools Halifax Walsall
Carlisle U. Doncaster R.
Rotherham
Rochdale
New Brighton
12 8 2 2 25 15 18
11 9 0 2 26 13 11 0 2 42
7 2 1 20
12 8 1 3 48 12 7 3 124 12
25
321 22
5 2 3 14 10 13
6 3 2 20 13 14
12 5 2 5 23 15 15
11 5 5 1 16 18 11
22 18
11 3 5 3 12
11 2 6 3
8 1 6.
10 280 II 28 4
817.
12
12
19 11 19
12 6 4 2 33 28
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33 ponents, with fiddling the ball 38 along in the mud, and with the 32 spirit of fraternity and fellowship. 28 The game was a game-honest and wholesome, fair and sweet in tone,
"This," thought I, "is football of: the old sort when every man uses weight and an argument 21 manoeuvres the ball with a pur- 19 pose, and regards every fellow on
41
10 his side as a backer-up and every
19
17 man on the other team as an op 17 ponent to be hoodwinked by fait 15 and not by foul means and knavish
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fine art and with a strong sense of a clean tackle.
The Will To Wink
I could not repress the thought that international matches;; played, These international matches are in the spirit that the Englishmen worth playing with robust vigour, and the Welshmen showed, set a as they supply an object lesson of standard of class and chivalry that true football; of the aport which may decay if the will to win in is the very salt of manly contests, intense competitive club rivalry is Let all clubs-League, clubs and to dominate all else. any other take to heart the neces- We saw backs, charging the for sity of maintaining an ideal stan- wards and getting the ball, and the dard, particularly with the Asso-referee encouraged, the good old ciation Cup-ties drawing near.
plan of taking both man and hall"": In an honest, open way. This was football.
F. J. Perry was ranked seventh last year, and he has thoroughly. deserved his jump of five places in the ladder. He is a great player | now, and he will be a greater nexi
year--Frank Paxon.
Let us congratulate both elevens: on such an exhibition, which prov cd that professionals can play with (Continued at foot of preceding column.)
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