1902/03 First Division

First Team Overall First Team Appearances & Scorers Reserves
President: Sir Alfred Hickman MP.

Committee: Colonel GW Walker (Chairman); Other directors unknown.
Secretary Manager: Jack Addenbrooke.
Trainers: Albert Fletcher.
Captain: Billy Wooldridge.

Playing Staff: William Adams, Kenneth Adey, Fred Allen, Billy Annis, F Ashby, Tom Baddeley, Thomas Barnett, J Barren, Billy Beats, Frank Bednall, Dick Betteley, John Bowen, Sam Broome, James Burrows, Fred Clews, William Cooper, George Coulson, Jerry Dean, J Drinkwater, Charles Eccleston, J Ellis, W Ellis, Thomas Emms, Archie Fellows, William Ferris, A Fletcher, J Foster, Amos Griffiths, Thomas Handley, Adam Haywood, Thomas Hill, George Holden, Joseph Holyhead, James Jeavons, Ernest Jones, Fred Jones, Jackery Jones, William Jones, R Jones, W Jones, W J Jones, Ted Juggins, Enoch Kay, G King, E Kyle, Walter Lewis, Jack Miller, R Moore, W Morris, Arthur Myatt, Thomas Nicholls, Thomas Palmer, Jack Pedley, Ed Pheasant, Charlie Pilsbury, Harry Preston, E Reaney, Kenneth Rhodes, George Richards, Harry Robotham, J Shelton, J Shorthouse, Adrian Smith, Edwin Smith, Jack Smith, John Smith, W Smith, W H Smith, Stokes, Jimmy Stringer, H Tales, J Tales, Harry Turley, John Vichraigo, George Walker, John Walker, J Walker, Thomas Walters, A Warren, T Warren, Benjamin Whitehouse, Jack Whitehouse, John Whitehouse, W Williams, E Wood, Billy Wooldridge.

Club Finances: Profit: £190 18s 4d; Total Expenditure: £4,911 2s 8d.

 
August

16 (H) Pre Season Practice Match Details
23 (H) Pre Season Practice Match Details
30 (H) Pre Season Practice Match Details

September

1 (H) Derby County W 3-0 Details
6 (H) Sunderland D 3-3 Details
13 (a) Stoke L 0-3 Details
15 (a) Walsall W 2-0 Details [SC1]
20 (H) Everton D 1-1 Details
22 (H) Aston Villa W 2-1 Details [BCCsf]
27 (a) The Wednesday D 1-1 Details
29 (H) West Bromwich Albion L 1-5 Details [BC1]

October

4 (H) West Bromwich Albion L 1-2 Details
6 (a) West Bromwich Albion D 1-1 Details [SCsf]
11 (a) Notts County D 0-0 Details
18 (H) Bolton Wanderers W 3-1 Details
25 (a) Middlesbrough L 0-2 Details
27 (H) West Bromwich Albion L 0-4 Details [SCsfR]

November

1 (H) Newcastle United W 3-0 Details
8 (a) Derby County L 1-3 Details
15 (a) Liverpool L 1-4 Details
22 (H) Sheffield United L 1-3 Details
24 (N) West Bromwich Albion W 3-2 Details [BCCf]
29 (a) Grimsby Town W 2-1 Details

December

6 (H) Aston Villa W 2-1 Details
13 (a) Nottingham Forest L 0-2 Details
20 (H) Bury W 3-2 Details
26 (H) Middlesbrough W 2-0 Details
27 (H) Blackburn Rovers W 2-0 Details

January

1 (a) Blackburn Rovers L 0-1 Details
3 (a) Sunderland L 0-3 Details
10 (H) Stoke W 1-0 Details
17 (a) Everton L 1-2 Details
24 (H) The Wednesday W 2-1 Details
31 (a) West Bromwich Albion D 2-2 Details

February

7 (H) Bury L 0-1 Details [FAC1]
14 (H) International Details See Photographs
14 (a) Bolton Wanderers L 1-4 Details
28 (a) Newcastle United W 4-2 Details

March

7 (a) Swindon Town D 1-1 Details [Friendly]
14 (H) Liverpool A-A Details
21 (a) Sheffield United L 0-3 Details
28 (H) Grimsby Town W 3-0 Details

April

4 (a) Aston Villa L 1-3 Details
11 (H) Nottingham Forest W 2-1 Details
13 (H) Notts County W 2-0 Details
14 (H) West Bromwich Albion W 5-1 Details [Friendly]
18 (a) St Mirren W 3-2 Details [Friendly]
20 (N) Aston Villa N 1-1 Details [Friendly]
22 (a) Bury L 0-4 Details
27 (H) Liverpool L 0-2 Details