1948/49 First Division

First Team Overall First Team Appearances & Scorers Reserves Youth 1 Youth 2

Directors: James S Baker (Chairman), J Evans, CH Hunter, M Matthews, AH Oakley, JT Howley (Secretary).
Manager: Stan Cullis (from 23 June).
Trainers: Jack Dowen, Jack Gardiner, George Palmer. Captain’s: Billy Wright and Bill Shorthouse.

Playing Staff: Sidney Abbotts, John Amos, Peter Anderson, Henry Archer, Alan Ashley, Derek Baker, John Baker, William Baker, William Barker, Barlow, Graham Barrett, Barry, Ted Batchelor, Billy Baxter, Clifford Beardsmore, John Bell, Derek Bennett, Wilfried Berry, Herbert Billington, Ernest Birkett-Hogg, Dennis Bottom, William Bourne, John Bowtell, Ronald Bridges, Frederick Brown, Reginald Buckley, James Burgwin, Howard Burrows, Richard Buxton, Joseph Callen, Campbell, Morris Carr, John Carruthers, Ivan Cartwright, Terence Casey, Edward Castle, Ray Chatham, Peter Chilvers, Ian Clark, Maxie Clews, Norman Clifton, John Cole, D Collins, Alfred Cooper, Terence Copeland, Ivan Craddock, Alf Crook, Billy Crook, Norman Cross, Keith Crowther, Stanley Cutler, John Denton, Alan Dewsbury, J Dolan, Peter Donnelly, Peter Doody, Ernest Dowen, Ronald Dugmore, N Dugmore, Jimmy Dunn, Norman Dunn, Tom Dunn, Noel Edwards, Ted Elliott, Walter Ellis, John Evans, Spencer Evans, William Everall, John Everitt, John Fardoe, Stanley Farmer, Laurence Fereday, Robert Ferrier, Ronald Fisher, Leslie Flavell, Willie Forbes, Derek Ford, Dennis Foster, Horance Foster, Joseph Gaskin, Len Gibbons, Thomas Gittins, Andrew Gordon, Billy Green, Raymond Green, Roy Green, Horace Griffiths, Raymond Griffiths, Bill Guttridge, Robert Halford, Rudolph Hall, Johnny Hancocks, Cyril Hardstaff, Charles Harley, Ronald Harness, Kenneth Harper, Ronald Harris, Joseph Hartley, Robert Harvey, Brian Hassall, Ron Hewitt, Hicks, Eric Hodgkiss, Desmond Holloway, Robert Homer, Ken Horne, Derek Hughes, Eric Hughes, George Hughes, Kenneth Hulse, Dennis Huntley, Hyde, Samuel Ingram, Alan Jackson, James James, John Jarman, Brian Johnson, Johnson, Frederick Jones, James Jones, Reginald Jones, Keith Jordan, David Kavanagh, Keeley, Lawrence Kelly, John Kilminster, Alex King, Lawley, David Lawther, Jimmy Lee, Fred Lewis, Linton, John Lloyd, Trevor Long, MacLaren, James Markham, Bruce Marsh, Norman Marsh, Terrance Martin, John Mason, Philip Mason, George Matthews, Ronald Maybury, Edward Mayes, George McKeller, Gus McLean, William McRobie, Walter Miller, John Molloy, William Molloy, Jimmy Mullen, Charles Munday, Les Mynard, Cyril Nash, William Nattrass, Newball, Newman, George Nicholson, Samuel Noakes, Dennis Parsons, Alfred Partridge, John William Paxton, James Peake, Roy Pearce, Laurence Pearson, Herbert Pestridge, Ronald Phethean, Ronald Plimmer, John Potts, Raymond Powell, Ronald Powell, Desmond Price, Frank Price, Roy Thomas Pritchard, Jesse Pye, James Ramage, Raymond Randle, Micky Reid, James Roberts, Stanley Roberts, Jeffrey Robinson, Jimmy Rogers, Aden Rosewarne, George Ross, Benjamin Round, Ken Rowley, Raymond Ruby, Eddie Russell, Raymond Russell, Peter Sawyer, Cyril Scott, Joseph Scott, Samuel Sharkey, Phillip Shaw, Jack Short, Bill Shorthouse, lfred Siddall, Alec Simpson, David Sims, Raymond Skidmore, Skinner, John Slater, Frederick Smith, James Smith, Les Smith, Sammy Smyth, Harold Spears, Gordon Spragg, Terry Springthorpe, Barry Squires, Arnold Stephens, Thomas Stephenson, Ernie Stevenson, Dennis Stokes, Arthur Swift, Roy Swinbourne, Tatem, Arthur Tattershall, Alfred Thomas, James Thomas, Joe Thomas, Joe Trickett, Derek Tweddle, Johnny Walker, John Walter, John Watkins, Sydney Weare, Arthur Weaver, Wesley, Westwood, Robert Whitehouse, Ken Whitfield, Alfred Wildman, Bert Williams, Frederick Williams, Thomas Williams, Dennis Wilshaw, William Withall, Norman Woodcock, Billy Wright, Harold Wright.

Club Finances: Profit: £20,750; Dividend: 5 percent.

Europe: Wolves were due to tour Spain at the end of the season but it was cancelled because Wolves had four players on the F.A. touring team.

 
August

14 (H) Pre Season Practice Match Details
21 (H) Birmingham City D 2-2 Details
25 (H) Sunderland L 0-1 Details
28 (a) Bolton Wanderers W 5-0 Details

September

1 (a) Sunderland D 3-3 Details
4 (H) Liverpool D 0-0 Details
8 (H) Manchester United W 3-2 Details
11 (a) Blackpool W 3-1 Details
15 (a) Manchester United L 0-2 Details
18 (H) Derby County D 2-2 Details
25 (a) Arsenal L 1-3 Details
27 (a) Brighton & Hove Albion W 4-1 Details [Friendly]

October

2 (H) Huddersfield Town W 7-1 Details
9 (H) Middlesbrough L 0-3 Details
16 (a) Newcastle United L 1-3 Details
23 (H) Portsmouth W 3-0 Details
30 (a) Manchester City D 3-3 Details

November

6 (H) Charlton Athletic W 2-0 Details
13 (a) Stoke City L 1-2 Details
20 (H) Burnley W 3-0 Details
27 (a) Preston North End D 1-1 Details

December

4 (H) Everton W 1-0 Details
11 (a) Chelsea L 1-4 Details
18 (a) Birmingham City W 1-0 Details
25 (H) Aston Villa W 4-0 Details
27 (a) Aston Villa L 1-5 Details

January

1 (H) Bolton Wanderers W 2-0 Details
8 (H) Chesterfield W 6-0 Details [FAC3]
15 (H) Liverpool P-P
22 (H) Blackpool W 2-1 Details
29 (a) Sheffield United W 3-0 Details [FAC4]

February

5 (a) Derby County L 2-3 Details
12 (H) Liverpool W 3-1 Details [FAC5]
19 (H) Arsenal L 1-3 Details
26 (H) West Bromwich Albion W 1-0 Details [FAC6]

March

5 (a) Middlesbrough D 4-4 Details
9 (H) Inter Services Match Details
12 (H) Newcastle United W 3-0 Details
19 (a) Burnley D 0-0 Details
26 (N) Manchester United D 1-1 Details [FACsf]

April

2 (N) Manchester United W 1-0 Details [FACsfR]
6 (a) Liverpool D 0-0 Details
9 (H) Stoke City W 3-1 Details
13 (a) Charlton Athletic W 3-2 Details
16 (a) Portsmouth L 0-5 Details
18 (a) Sheffield United D 1-1 Details
19 (H) Sheffield United W 6-0 Details
23 (H) Manchester City D 1-1 Details
30 (N) Leicester City W 3-1 Details [FACf]

May

2 (H) Preston North End W 2-1 Details
4 (a) Everton L 0-1 Details
5 (a) Huddersfield Town L 0-4 Details
7 (H) Chelsea D 1-1 Details
13 (a) Bohemians D 1-1 Details [Friendly]
19 (a) Munster XI W 3-2 Details [Friendly]