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HIGH-SCORING
GAMES
Of the 4376 Football League
games City have been involved in only 15 have seen 10 or more
goals scored and with the last occasion way back in November 1953 we
are perhaps overdue another one!
Ten goals in a game has occurred on eight occasions with the first
being our record away win in the Football League when we ran out 8-2
winners at Rotherham
Town's Clifton Grove on December 2nd 1893. Don
Lees (3), John
Chadburn (2), John
Irving, Albert
Flewitt and an own goal were the men on target for City.
November 16th 1895 was the next 10-goal game and again it is a unique
result in our history as we drew 5-5
at Newton
Heath. Alec
Smith (2), Jimmy
Frettingham, William
Gillespie and Jimmy
Burke were the City scorers.
An injury to goalkeeper Jack
Kendall played a part in the first of our three games to finish
9-1. Away at Wigan
Borough on March
3rd 1923 he left the field after 30 minutes with us already
trailing 2-0 and replacement George
Greaves let in a further seven. William
Morton scored our consolation. Billy Glover scored five of
Wigan's goals, the first time any player had done so against us.
Both our other two 9-1 scorelines have happened at Sincil Bank. A
crowd of 7,086 witnessed Frank
Keetley score six times (all six in the second half, the first
time anyone had achieved the feat in the Football League to that
point) against Halifax
Town on January
16th 1932. Harold
Riley (2) and Allan
Hall were the other scorers. The final 9-1 bizarrely happened 27
years to the day after the Wigan game, March
3rd 1951. Accrington
Stanley were the victims as 10,745 saw hat-tricks by Johnny
Garvie and Andy
Graver, a brace for Roy
Finch and one from Willie
Windle secure the points.
The other three games to see 10 goals have all finished 7-3 and we
have lost them all! Christmas
Day 1926 didn't see Rochdale
hand out any presents to City's debutant 'keeper Rueben
Chambers as they put seven past him. Two from Stanley
Sayer and one from Billy
Dinsdale were all City could muster in reply.
On September
15th 1928 City again suffered in the north west as Stockport
County won easily. In one of those strange quirks that football
is famous for the City 'keeper that day was Len
Hill who had been stood between the sticks for Rochdale
less than two years earlier! Joe Smith became the second player to
score five against us with Charlie
Bosbury, Harry
Pringle and Andrew
York scoring for us.
The final 7-3 was at Sealand Road, Chester
on November
14th 1936. Dan
McPhail was in goal and our consolation goals came from Harry
Raw, John
Campbell and an own goal.
Three games have seen 11 goals scored with two defeats of 9-2 and an
8-3 victory.
The first 9-2 is still Darlington's
record Football League win and happened on January
7th 1928. Darlington players Tom Ruddy and Harry Lees both
scored three past Len
Hill (again!), the first time two opponents had scored
hat-tricks in the same game against us. Billy
Dinsdale and Harry
Andrews scored for us.
An attendance of 30,343 witnessed our humiliation at Filbert Street
on November
21st 1953 as Derek Hines scored five for Leicester City. Jerry
Lowery was the Imps' keeper and Ernie
Whittle and Andy
Graver scored our goals.
The only 8-3 game we have been involved in was at Sincil Bank on November
12th 1938 and Wrexham
were the victims. Hat-tricks apiece by James
Wilson and Joe
Clare plus one apiece from George
Whyte and debutant Walter
Ponting did the damage.
Three times the crowd have seen 12 goals in a City game with the
first at Luton
Town's previous home of Dunstable Road on December
18th 1897. Six different Town players scored and with one scorer
untraced that may have been seven! William
Wilkinson was the City 'keeper and goals from Horace
Fletcher, William
Ross and Arthur
Hulme didn't matter.
An 8-4 scoreline at Accrington
Stanley on May
31st 1947 (we still had to play twice in June to finish the
season!) saw Tommy
Cheetham become the first Imp to score a hat-trick but still
finish a loser. Jimmy
Hutchinson scored the other, Don
Footitt was the 'keeper and the crowd was just 2,504.
The other 12 goal game needs little detail as it was our record
Football League win over Crewe
Alexandra at Sincil Bank on September
29th 1951. Andy
Graver became the second Imp to score six in a game with Harry
Troops, George
Johnson, Horace
Green, Ernie
Whittle and Jimmy
Grummett completing the rout. Crewe's keeper Dennis Murray was
making his Football League debut and only played one further game.
No Football League games have had 13 goals in but one has had 14 and
it occurred way back on March
23rd 1895.
As usual we were struggling, especially away from home with our
previous 13 trips seeing 12 defeats and 55 goals conceded. Manchester
City were in mid-table but had scored 36 goals in 11 games at
Hyde Road. Around 3,000 turned up no doubt expecting a home win and
they weren't disappointed. Evan
Roberts was the City 'keeper and he ended up being beaten 11
times as Wally McReddie became the first opponent to score four
against us with Sandy Rowan, Billy Meredith, Pat Finnerhan all
scoring two and Bob Milarvie one. Our goals came from Don
Lees, Frank
Smallman and an own goal.
10 OR MORE GOALS IN A LEAGUE GAME
Date
Opponents
Ven
Competition
Res
Crowd
a
FL Division 2
8-2
a
FL Division 2
3-11
a
FL Division 2
5-5
a
FL Division 2
3-9
a
FL Division 3N
1-9
a
FL Division 3N
3-7
8,921
a
FL Division 3N
2-9
8,365
a
FL Division 3N
3-7
10,924
h
FL Division 3N
9-1
7,086
a
FL Division 3N
3-7
8,343
h
FL Division 3N
8-3
5,314
a
FL Division 3N
4-8
2,504
h
FL Division 3N
9-1
10,745
h
FL Division 3N
11-1
11,269
a
FL Division 2
2-9
30,343
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