Football League meeting (November 1, 1895)


November 1, 1895
The Emergency Committee of the English League met last evening at Manchester. The chief business was the selection of a team to represent the League against the Irish League at Stoke on November 9.

The following were selected: Tom Baddeley (Burslem Port Vale); Charles Perry (West Bromwich) and Geoge Swift (Loughborough); Jimmy Turner (Stoke), Bob Chatt (Aston Villa), and Thomas Chapman (Manchester City); Bill Williams (Everton), Patrick Finnerhan (Manchester City), Tommy McCairns (Grimsby Town), Frank Becton (Liverpool), and Billy Dorrell (Aston Villa).
(Edinburgh Evening News: November 2, 1895)

Note that in the newspaper reports Bob Chatt is mentioned as J. Chatt.

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