Saturday, September 22 – 1945
Match: Football League, Northern Section, at Ewood Park.
Blackburn Rovers – Liverpool 0-5 (0-1).
Attendance: 5,131.
Referee: Mr. J.H. Parker (Crewe).
Blackburn Rovers (2-3-5): Jack Patterson; Walter Crook, Alan Green; George Forbes, Fred Hall, Eric Bell; Jack Smith, Bob Hacking (Luton Town), Bibby, Frank Egerton, Les Cook.
Liverpool (2-3-5): Alf Hobson; Jack Westby, Jeff Gulliver (Reading); Harry Kaye, Jack Easdale, Bob Paisley; Les Shannon, Bill Jones, Willie Fagan, Jack Balmer, Jack Campbell.
The goals: 0-1 Fagan (27 min.), 0-2 Fagan (48 min.), 0-3 Jones (53 min), 0-4 Balmer, 0-5 Balmer.
Match report from Lancashire Evening Post, Saturday, September 22 – 1945.