1904–05 Aston Villa F.C. season
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1904–05 season | |
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First Division | 4th |
FA Cup | winners |
The 1904–05 Football League season was Aston Villa's 17th season in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era.[1]
During the season Howard Spencer and Joe Bache shared the captaincy of the club.[2]
Events surrounding the February 1905 match away to Small Heath highlighted their Coventry Road ground's inadequacies. The official attendance was given as 28,000,[3] though with the gates closed before kick-off, thousands scaled walls or forced entrances in order to gain admission, and the actual attendance was estimated at anything up to 35,000.[4][5]
Aston Villa won the FA Cup competition for the fourth time, beating Newcastle United 2–0 in the final at Crystal Palace, through two goals scored by Harry Hampton. The man of the match was Aston Villa's prolific scorer Billy Garraty, who was born only a few miles from the now Villa Park.
Football League
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GAv | Pts | Relegation |
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1 | Newcastle United (C) | 34 | 23 | 2 | 9 | 72 | 33 | 2.182 | 48 | |
2 | Everton | 34 | 21 | 5 | 8 | 63 | 36 | 1.750 | 47 | |
3 | Manchester City | 34 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 66 | 37 | 1.784 | 46 | |
4 | Aston Villa | 34 | 19 | 4 | 11 | 63 | 43 | 1.465 | 42 | |
5 | Sunderland | 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 60 | 44 | 1.364 | 40 | |
6 | Sheffield United | 34 | 19 | 2 | 13 | 64 | 56 | 1.143 | 40 | |
7 | Small Heath | 34 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 54 | 38 | 1.421 | 39 | |
8 | Preston North End | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 42 | 37 | 1.135 | 36 | |
9 | The Wednesday | 34 | 14 | 5 | 15 | 61 | 57 | 1.070 | 33 | |
10 | Woolwich Arsenal | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 36 | 40 | 0.900 | 33 | |
11 | Derby County | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 37 | 48 | 0.771 | 32 | |
12 | Stoke | 34 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 40 | 58 | 0.690 | 30 | |
13 | Blackburn Rovers | 34 | 11 | 5 | 18 | 40 | 51 | 0.784 | 27 | |
14 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 34 | 11 | 4 | 19 | 47 | 73 | 0.644 | 26 | |
15 | Middlesbrough | 34 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 36 | 56 | 0.643 | 26 | |
16 | Nottingham Forest | 34 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 40 | 61 | 0.656 | 25 | |
17 | Bury | 34 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 47 | 67 | 0.701 | 24 | Relegation to the Second Division |
18 | Notts County | 34 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 36 | 69 | 0.522 | 18 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions
First team squad
Billy George, 39 appearances, conceded 46
Billy Brawn, 37 appearances
Joe Bache, 37 appearances
Billy Garraty, 37 appearances
Alex Leake, 36 appearances
Freddie Miles, 35 appearances
Joe Pearson, 31 appearances
Jack Windmill, 30 appearances
Harry Hampton, 28 appearances
Albert Hall, 28 appearances
Howard Spencer, 24 appearances
Albert Wilkes, 10 appearances
Billy Matthews, 7 appearances
Alf Wood, 6 appearances
Willie Clarke, 5 appearances
Albert Evans, 5 appearances
Micky Noon, 5 appearances
George Johnson, 3 appearances
- Harry Cooch, 1 appearance, conceded 2
Mart Watkins, 1 appearance
- Josiah Gray, 7 appearances
- Walter Brown, 11 appearances
- Jimmy Cantrell, 3 appearances
- Watty Corbett, 1 appearance [2]
References
- ^ "Aston Villa Club History 1900 – 1939". AVFC.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 August 2006. Retrieved 2007-10-28.
- ^ a b AVFC History: 1904-05 season
- ^ This Day's Matches. Birmingham Daily Mail. 25 February 1905. p. 4.
- ^ Matthews (1995), Complete Record. p. 57.
- ^ Inglis, Simon (1996). Football Grounds of Britain (3rd ed.) London: CollinsWillow. p. 44. ISBN 0-00-218426-5.