Game #177
Aston Villa
Saturday, 9 September 1893
Drew
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟨
Division One
Attendance: 10,000
Sunderland
Newcastle Road
Dennis Hodgetts scored the opener but reigning champions Sunderland hit back to draw.
Sunderland
1-1
Aston Villa
Assists(s) | Not recorded
KEY MAN
Dennis Hodgetts, scored the opener, Saturday, 9 September 1893
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MATCH TIMELINE
Saturday, 9 September 1893
[Exact timings not recorded]
Goal, 1-0, Dennis Hodgetts
HT Sunderland 0-1 Aston Villa
65’ Goal, 1-1, (Sunderland)
FT Sunderland 1-1 Aston Villa
ON THIS DAY
Villa remained unbeaten to leave the reigning champions Sunderland without a win.
Aston Villa
Sunderland
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: 1892-93
FIXTURE HISTORY
Sunderland
Previous 5 vs. Sunderland: | 🟩 | 🟩 | 🟥.| 🟥.| 🟥.|
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1893-94 |
Matchday | #2 |
League Match | #2 |
Manager Game | #151 |
Saturday, 9 September 1893
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: George Ramsay | 🏴 | Glasgow, 1886-1926 led Management Committee
FT Score | 1-1 |
FT Result | Drew |
Last 5 Games | WLDWD |
MANAGERIAL RECORD
George Ramsay | 🏴 |
GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME
🕒 151 | 🟩 76 🟨 21 🟥 54 | 1.65
Career Form:
Top 6
George Ramsay | 🏴 |
MATCH OFFICIALS
CARDS
Villa
Sunderland
TEAM NEWS
Villa name an unchanged line up from the team that beat Albion on the opening day of the season.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 24.80 |
Oldest Player |
F Dennis Hodgetts | 29.80 |
Youngest Player |
W Charlie Athersmith | 21.35 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
George Ramsay | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Bill Dunning |
D John Baird |
CB Jimmy Cowan |
FB Jim Elliott |
M Jack Reynolds |
W Albert Woolley |
W Charlie Athersmith |
F Jack Devey |
F Dennis Hodgetts |
F Bob Chatt |
CF Jimmy Logan |
Sunderland
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
SQUAD STATS
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
MATCHDAY SQUAD
UNAVAILABLE
Not recorded
UNAVAILABLE
Not Recorded
Player Positions:
GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half
M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward
Match Symbols:
⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution
🟨 | Booking
🟥 | Sending off
🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game
DEBUT APPEARANCES
FINAL APPEARANCES
MATCH STATS
Not recorded
TABLE
PROGRAMME
MATCHDAY QUOTES
"The game at Sunderland between the home team and Aston Villa was very disappointing to the spectators, for in it the League champions of last season showed a sad deterioration from their old form."
*The Birmingham Daily Post*
Monday, 11 September 1893
SATURDAY’S FOOTBALL
ASSOCIATION RULES.
THE LEAGUE - DIVISION 1
Sunderland v. Aston Villa.
Nearly 10,000 people gathered at the Sunderland ground to see the champions play Aston Villa. Pleasant weather favoured the game, and the ground was in excellent condition. Hodgetts soon obtained a goal for Aston Villa, and Campbell, for the other side, put the ball between the posts, but the latter point was disallowed for off-side.
Exciting play followed, each goal being threatened in turn, but, as nothing else was scored, the game at half-time stood: Aston Villa 1 goal, Sunderland 0.
As soon as the game was restarted the home team commenced a warm attack on the Villa goal. For twenty minutes the visitors’ defence proved equal to the demands made upon it, but at last Miller succeeded in heading the ball through for Sunderland, and matters were thus made even.
Each side afterwards came very near scoring, but when the end was reached no further points had been added, and the game thus resulted in a draw of 1 goal each.
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*The Birmingham Daily Post*
Monday 11 September 1893
NOTES ON SPORT
The game at Sunderland between the home team and Aston Villa was very disappointing to the spectators, for in it the League champions of last season showed a sad deterioration from their old form.
Though the match was played at Newcastle Road, Sunderland, where the Wearsiders have before proved themselves all but invincible, on the day’s play Aston Villa deserved to win. Their form was far away above that of Sunderland, who, though they pressed most, nevertheless played a loose game, their old machine-like combination being conspicuously absent. They clearly proved to their own supporters that their failure to win at Sheffield on the previous Saturday was no fluke. Walker and Meehan, the two new backs, were closely looked at, but did not show any brilliance.. Porteous and the discarded John Gillespie, with youth on his side, would have made a better pair. The only man in the team who was A 1 was Doig in goal.
On the other side the Villans were a well-balanced team, but certainly best at back. Elliott and Baird were a grand pair, and the Sunderland forwards, even when they did get into anything like combination, could seldom pass them, though they a tried for about three quarters of the game. Dunning in goal was like a stone wall. His weight as much as his skill told against his opponents. These three players diverted many a rush of the Sunderland players. At half-back the Villans also shone, their three men there playing much more steadily than the corresponding trio of the opposing team who worked hard but wildly. Among the forwards the best was Athersmith, if he only had been accurate in his shooting. By bad shooting he spoiled many fine efforts by his colleagues.
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