1949/50 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 (Assistant Secretary).
Manager: Stan Cullis.
Trainer: Joe Gardiner, Jack Dowen, George Palmer.
Captain: Billy Wright.

Playing Squad: Ronald Allen, Henry Archer, Phil Aston, Derek Baker, John Baker, Ball, Ted Batchelor, Billy Baxter, Clifford Beardsmore, Stanley Beddows, Norman Booth, William Bourne, Gordon Brinsford, Brook, Albert Brown, Reginald Buckley, Keith Burrows, Kenneth Burton, Richard Buxton, Joseph Callen, Ivan Cartwright, Terence Casey, Kenneth Chapman, Ray Chatham, Eddie Clamp, Ian Clark, John Clark, Maxie Clews, Norman Clifton, John Cole, Douglas Collins, Albert Congreave, Alfred Cooper, William Cooper, Terence Copeland, Charles Cordey, Alf Crook, Billy Crook, Norman Cross, Keith Crowther, Cuncliffe, Stanley Cutler, A Davies, Leonard Davies, Windsor Davies, Norman Deeley, Peter Donnelly, Ernest Dowen, Geoffrey Duckett, Ronald Dugmore, Jimmy Dunn, Tom Dunn, John Eaton, Edward Evans, John Everitt, Ronald Farmer, Sidney Fawcett, Ferguson, Ferraday, Robert Ferrier, Denzil Flanagan, Willie Forbes, Derek Ford, Roy Ford, Len Gibbons, Robert Glover, Tony Gormon, Douglas Goulding, Eric Gray, Roy Green, Terence Greenwood, Horace Griffiths, Bill Guttridge, Edwin Hall, Johnny Hancocks, Kenneth Hardacre, Joseph Hartley, Robert Harvey, Tom Hatton, Harry Hawthorne, Gordon Heath, Liam Hennessy, James Hewett, Ron Hewitt, Peter Higginbottom, Norman Hillman, Daniel Hingley, Eric Hodgkiss, William Hodgkiss, Raymond Hogg, Bill Holmes, D Holmes, Frank Hough, Dennis Huntley, Melvyn James, John Jarman, Lawrence Kelly, Francis Ketly, Robert Latham, David Lewis, Fred Lewis, Robert Lloyd, Trevor Long, Robert Marshall, Philip Mason, Malcolm Mayhew, Frank McAdams, Vincent McDermott, McGoldrick, Gus McLean, McLeary, McLoughlin, William Meikle, John Miller, Sidney Moggridge, Monkes, John Morgan, Ronald Morgan, Peter Morris, Jimmy Mullen, Murray, Les Mynard, Cyril Nash, Nicholls, Samuel Noakes, Albert Norman, Brian O’Shaunhessy, Dennis Parsons, Derek Parton, John Paxton, Roy Pearce, Pendridge, Herbert Pestridge, Phetham, Richard Powell, Ronald Powell, Albert Price, Desmond Price, Frank Price, Roy Pritchard, Jesse Pye, Rawsthorne, Riley, Ken Rowley, William Rowley, Eddie Russell, Brian Ryalls, Peter Sawyer, Sharp, Jack Short, Bill Shorthouse, Alfred Siddall, David Sims, lan Skitt, Johnny Skull, Clive Smith, Cyril Smith, Les Smith, Sammy Smyth, Terry Springthorpe, John Stephen, Ronald Stubbs, Roy Swinbourne, Doug Taft, Tandy, Arthur Tattershall, Doug Taylor, Teal, Joe Thomas, John Thomas, Todd, Geoffrey Tomlinson, Ernest Tranter, Traynor, William Tudor, Vine, Wagstaffe, Johnny Walker, Donald Watson, Arthur Weaver, Ken Whitfield, Norman Whyatt, Bert Williams, William Williams, Dennis Wilshaw, Graham Wood, Brian Woolmer, Billy Wright, Harold Wright, Yardley.

Club Finances: This season a profit of £22,368 was made.


 
August

6 (a) Edinburgh Select W 3-2 Details [Friendly]
13 (H) Pre Season Practice Match Details
20 (a) Fulham D 2-1 Details
24 (a) Charlton Athletic W 3-2 Details
27 (H) Newcastle United W 2-1 Details
29 (H) Charlton Athletic W 2-1 Details

September

3 (a) Blackpool W 2-1 Details
10 (H) Middlesbrough W 3-1 Details
14 (a) Birmingham City D 1-1 Details
17 (a) Everton W 2-1 Details
24 (H) Huddersfield Town W 7-1 Details

October

1 (a) Portsmouth D 1-1 Details
8 (a) Derby County W 2-1 Details
15 (H) West Bromwich Albion D 1-1 Details
19 (N) Portsmouth W 1-1 Details [CS]
22 (a) Manchester United L 0-3 Details
29 (H) Chelsea D 2-2 Details

November

1 (a) Antwerp XI L 1-2 Details [Friendly]
5 (a) Stoke City L 1-2 Details
12 (H) Burnley D 0-0 Details
19 (a) Sunderland L 1-3 Details
26 (H) Liverpool D 1-1 Details

December

3 (a) Arsenal D 1-1 Details
5 (a) Merthyr Tydfil W 3-0 Details [Friendly]
10 (H) Bolton Wanderers D 1-1 Details
17 (H) Fulham D 1-1 Details
24 (a) Newcastle United L 0-2 Details
26 (H) Aston Villa L 2-3 Details
27 (a) Aston Villa W 4-1 Details
31 (H) Blackpool W 3-0 Details

January

7 (a) Plymouth Argyle D 1-1 Details [FAC3]
11 (H) Plymouth Argyle W 3-0 Details [FAC3R]
14 (a) Middlesbrough L 0-2 Details
16 (H) Rio de Janeiro P-P [Friendly]
18 (H) Sheffield United D 0-0 Details [FAC4]
21 (H) Everton D 1-1 Details

February

1 (a) Sheffield United W 4-3 Details [FAC4R]
4 (a) Huddersfield Town L 0-1 Details
11 (H) Blackpool D 0-0 Details [FAC5]
15 (H) Inter League Match Details
15 (a) Blackpool L 0-1 Details [FAC5R]
18 (H) Portsmouth W 1-0 Details
25 (H) Derby County W 4-1 Details

March

4 (a) West Bromwich Albion D 1-1 Details
11 (H) Sunderland L 1-3 Details
18 (a) Liverpool W 2-0 Details
22 (H) Inter Services Match Details
25 (H) Stoke City W 2-1 Details

April

1 (a) Burnley W 1-0 Details
8 (H) Manchester United D 1-1 Details
10 (a) Manchester City L 1-2 Details
11 (H) Manchester City W 3-0 Details
15 (a) Chelsea D 0-0 Details
19 (a) Leeds United D 1-1 Details [Friendly]
22 (H) Arsenal W 3-0 Details
29 (a) Bolton Wanderers W 4-2 Details

May

6 (H) Birmingham City W 6-1 Details