Liverpool F.C. – The Champions of the League The supreme event in the Eastertide football was the decision of the League championship. When Liverpool had the honour of defeating last season’s winners, Burnley, and on the same day Oldham Athletic overcame Tottenham Hotspur at Boundary Park, the premiership […]
Friday, January 30 – 1953 Each Saturday hundreds of thousands of football “fans” get the maximum pleasure from the most popular of British games. Let us introduce you to a Stoke Mandeville man who for 18 seasons was in the top flight of professional “soccer”; who played for […]
Saturday, February 4 – 1939 The competition asking for the six most famous footballers of Liverpool F.C., in order of merit, led to a large survey of famous names and apparently created much pleasure and profitable thought. The result of the competition is that Elisha Scott tops the […]
Monday, August 5 – 1929 There are few changes to record at Prenton Park, as the directors were satisfied with last season’s players, of whom 18 were retained, and as the newcomers among the forwards are expected to blend with an already tried and capable defence, there is […]
Monday, July 25 – 1927 Tranmere Rovers yesterday signed on John Bamber, of Leicester City, who up to three years ago was with Liverpool, for whom he played. (Nottingham Evening Post, 26-07-1927)
October 23, 1926 Match: Football League, First Division, at Anfield, kick-off: 15:00. Liverpool – Leicester City 1-0 (0-0). Attendance: 33,192. Referee: R. Bowie (Newcastle-on-Tyne). Liverpool (2-3-5): Elisha Scott, Tommy Lucas, Donald Mackinlay, Dick Forshaw, David Pratt, Tom Bromilow, Dick Edmed, Gordon Hodgson, Tommy Reid, Harry Chambers, Fred Hopkin. […]
Monday, August 24 – 1925 Liverpool are not likely to experience the same difficulty with which they were faced towards the end of last season, when forward positions, owing to injuries and loss of form, caused great concern. All positions now appear to be capably duplicated, and anxiety […]
Saturday, May 9 – 1925 The Burnley half-back, Basnett, assisted a team of past St. Helen’s players against present players in a charity match in his native town on Saturday. The game was in aid of a St Helens’s man, S. Murray, formerly of the Everton and Reading […]
Saturday, September 1 – 1923 Liverpool. Elisha Scott Belfast (G.) 5 9 1/2 – 11 12 Algy Wilkinson Bradford (G.) 5 10 – 12 7 Charles Pearson Chester-le-Street (G.) 5 10 1/2 – 11 0 Ephraim Longworth Bolton (R.B.) 5 8 1/2 – 11 10 Tommy Lucas St. […]
August 20, 1923 Liverpool are optimists. The players believe they can improve upon last season’s record, and that they can again head the League chart, but there is an occasional feeling of the quietude that if anything happens to “the old brigade” there may be some little difficulty […]
August 13, 1923 The League Champions hold their first practice game this evening, and their second on Saturday next. Donald Mackinlay has been re-elected captain for the coming season, during which benefit matches are due for Harry Chambers, Tommy Lucas, John Bamber and Walter Wadsworth. (Athletic News: August […]
Monday, May 28 – 1923 No club which has gained the primcipal honours in any of the leading competitions of the last season has been able to complete the programme with so small a band of players as Liverpool. The champions of the First Division have needed only […]
Saturday, September 23 – 1922 Reserves, Central League, at Turf Moor. Burnley Reserves – Liverpool Reserves 3-0 (2-0). Referee: Mr. J.A. Marshall. Burnley Reserves (2-3-5): Len Moorwood; John Pearson, James Astin; Harry Gee, Bob Chambers, Billy Morgan; Walter Weaver, Jack Lane, Ted Wade, James Lindsay, George Richardson. Liverpool […]
Monday, August 21 – 1922 The League champions are in the unique position of being able to open the campaign with practically the same side. All last year’s players, with the exception of Jack Sheldon, whose unfortunate accident has put him out of football, have been re-engaged, and […]
Monday, July 10 – 1922 Ground improvements are proceeding apace at Anfield. Approaches have been cemented, and Spion Kop has been terraced off. The centre of the paddock has been sent aside, with separate entrances for the juvenile spectators. At the annual meeting the following list of players […]
Thursday, May 25 – 1922 Match: Friendly, at Campo de Viale Lombardia, kick-off: 17:00. Burnley – Liverpool 1-0 (0-0). Attendance: 10,000. Referee: Giovanni Mauro. Burnley (2-3-5): Jerry Dawson, Len Smelt, David Taylor, William Emerson, Alf Basnett, Billy Watson, Walter Weaver, Bob Kelly, Joe Anderson, James Lindsay, Eddie Mosscrop. […]
Monday, April 24 – 1922 The supreme event in the Eastertide football was the decision of the League championship. When Liverpool had the honour of defeating last season’s winners, Burnley, and on the same day Oldham Athletic overcame Tottenham Hotspur at Boundary Park, the premiership of the First […]
Saturday, April 8 – 1922 Match: Football League, First Division, Boundary Park, kick-off: 15:15. Oldham Athletic – Liverpool 4-0 (1-0). Attendance: 12,000. Referee: Mr. H.W. Andrews (Prestwick). Oldham Athletic (2-3-5): Ted Taylor, Harry Grundy, Reginald Freeman, Alf Marshall, Elliot Pilkington, Bill Taylor, Charlie Wallace, William Wood, Reuben Butler, […]
Saturday, April 1 – 1922 Match: Football League, First Division, Anfield, kick-off: 15:15. Liverpool – Oldham Athletic 2-0 (1-0). Attendance: 30,000. Referee: Mr. H.W. Andrews (Prestwich). Liverpool (2-3-5): Elisha Scott, Ted Parry, Ephraim Longworth, John Bamber, Walter Wadsworth, Tom Bromilow, Cyril Gilhespy, Dick Forshaw, Harry Chambers, Harry Lewis, […]
Saturday, February 25 – 1922 We hear that John Bamber, the St. Helens man, and English International right half, who lost his place in the Liverpool side this season owing to an attack of appendicitis, and who cannot regain his place, may be leaving Anfield shortly. (Derby Daily […]
Monday, January 30 – 1922 The following is the English team to meet France in Paris on February 28: – E.H. Coleman (Dulwich Hamlet), Bert Chandler (Derby County), Ernest Milton (Sheffield United), John Bamber (Liverpool), Alex Campbell (Southampton), F.B. Spiller (Oxford City), R.G. Thorne-Thorpe (Cambridge), E. Kail (Dulwich […]
Thursday, January 19 – 1922 Liverpool have accepted the resignation of Ephraim Longworth from the captaincy of the club, and Donald Mackinlay has been appointed to the position. The team to oppose Birmingham at St. Andrews, on Saturday, will not include John Bamber, who is left out for […]
Saturday, January 14 – 1922 Match: Football League, First Division, at Anfield, kick-off: 14:30. Liverpool – Bradford City 2-1 (1-0). Attendance: 15,000. Referee: Mr. I. Baker. Liverpool (2-3-5): Elisha Scott, Tommy Lucas, Donald Mackinlay (C), John Bamber, Walter Wadsworth, Tom Bromilow, William Lacey, Dick Forshaw, Harry Chambers, Harry […]
Saturday, November 12 – 1921 Liverpool placed to their credit last week their twelfth consecutive game without defeat, and their record is a splendid one considering that they have been without the services for many weeks of their international right half, John Bamber, who was in September last […]
Friday, April 8 – 1921 Visitors from Liverpool. Character studies of the players. FRANK MITCHELL. * Quite a dapper figure he appears between the sticks does this canny Scot from Elgin, the home of the Seaforths. Some people place him right in the top flight of goalies; others […]
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