Leicester City (a) 1934/35

Saturday 25 August 1934 at Filbert Street (Att 18,000)

Leicester City (0) 1 (Coutts 81): McLaren, Black, Jones, Smith, Heywood, Ritchie, Adcock, Maw, Gardiner, Coutts, Liddle.
Wolves (1) 1 (Hartill 33): Wildman, Hollingworth, Shaw, Smalley, Nelson, Richards, Phillips, Beattie, Hartill, Jones, Barraclough.

Referee: Mr G Gould (South Norwood).
Injury: Leicester and Wolves were both reduced to ten men minutes before Wolves goal when Dai Jones and Charlie Phillips collided. Both players required stitches.
Respect: Both teams wore black arm bands, a minute silence was held and ‘Abide with Me’ was played before the kick-off in tribute to the late Peter Hodge – Secretary/Manager of Leicester City – who died the previous week.
Guest: Leicester’s Lord Mayor, A’d WK Billing was also present.
Position: 15th.

Loading