Lord Mayor of Birmingham Charity Cup (First Round)- Monday 6 September 1897 at Peel Croft

Burton Swifts (1) 2 (Shaw*, Salterthwaite 87): Gray, Ashby, Lowe, Waterson, West, Rae, Evans, Yardley, Boyd, Satherthwaite, Shaw.
Wolves (1) 1 (McMain 10): Harris, Tuft, Matthias, Nurse, Pheasant, Fleming, Chadburn, McMain, Beats, Wood, W Smith.

Order of Goals: W,b,b.
Injury: Wolves were reduced to ten players twenty minutes in to the second-half following an injury to Dan Nurse.
Landmark: Jack Chadburn, George Harris and Billy Tuft all make their Wolves debuts.