Tottenham Hotspur (a) 1908/09

Tuesday 1 September 1908 at White Hart Lane (Att 20,000)

Tottenham Hotspur (1) 3 (Woodward 10 47, Morris 84): Hewitson, Coquet, Burton, Morris, D Steel, Darnell, Walton, Woodward, MacFarlane, R Steel, Middlemiss.
Wolves (0) 0: Lunn, Jones, Collins, Hunt, Wooldridge, Bishop, Harrison, Shelton, Hedley, Radford, Pedley.

Referee: Mr J Howcroft (Bolton).
Landmark: Arthur Conway signed from Aston Villa during the summer makes his League debut. Bob Hewitson, Doug MacFarlane and Bobby Steel make their Spurs bows.
Newspaper: Some had Danny Steels at netting Tottenham’s third.
History: This was Tottenham ‘s first ever game in the Football League.
Strange but True: Tottenham’s Goalkeeper Bob Hewitson had also played in Oldham Athletics first ever League match just twelve months earlier.
Position: 20th.