Saturday, September 29 – 1945
Match: Football League, Northern Section, at Anfield.
Liverpool – Blackburn Rovers 4-0 (1-0).
Attendance: 24,532.
Referee: Mr. J.H. Parker (Crewe).
Liverpool (2-3-5): Alf Hobson; Jim Harley, Jeff Gulliver (Reading); Phil Taylor, Laurie Hughes, Jack Easdale; Les Shannon, Harry Kaye, Willie Fagan, Jack Balmer, Bob Paisley.
Blackburn Rovers (2-3-5): Stan Hayhurst; Walter Crook, Alan Green; Frank Egerton, George Forbes, Eric Bell; Ron Dellow, Len Butt, Peters, Bailey, Flinton.
The goals: 1-0 Paisley (25 min.), 2-0 Fagan, 3-0 Kaye, 4-0 Balmer.
Match report from Lancashire Evening Post, Saturday, September 29 – 1945.