1919–20 season of Brentford F.C.
Brentford 1919–20 football season
Brentford 1919–20 season Chairman H. Jason-Saunders Secretary Manager Fred Halliday Stadium Griffin Park Southern League First Division 15th FA Cup First round Top goalscorer League: Boyne (13) All: Boyne (13) Highest home attendance 15,000 Lowest home attendance 3,000
During the 1919–20 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League First Division. In the first season of competitive football since the end of the First World War in November 1918, Brentford consolidated with a mid-table finish. It was the club's final Southern League season, as 21 of the 22 First Division clubs were voted into the new Football League Third Division in May 1920.[1]
Season summary English-born New Zealander Reginald Boyne was Brentford's top-scorer during the season. Despite talk that Brentford would seek election to the Football League after the wartime London Combination title success of the previous season , the directors of the club decided to remain in the Southern League Second Division. As it was, by virtue of the Southern League First Division being expanded to 22 clubs and the departures of West Ham United and Croydon Common (voted into the Football League and resigned respectively), Brentford, Merthyr Town , Swansea Town and Newport County were all elevated from the Second Division to the First Division.
Four years of war meant that secretary-manager Fred Halliday needed to rebuild and expand his squad, with prolific forwards Henry White and guest Jack Cock having left the club, in addition to full backs Jack Peart, Dusty Rhodes and half back Bill Stanton. The only survivors of Brentford's final pre-war squad who made appearance during the 1919–20 season were goalkeeper Ted Price, half back Tom McGovern and outside left Patsy Hendren .
New centre forward Reginald Boyne 's six goals in the opening six matches ensured Brentford started the season well, but once his goals dried up, due to a niggling knee injury,[4] the team was robbed of potency in attack.[5] A 10-match winless streak ended when the team went on a five-match unbeaten run through November and December 1919.[5] While manager Fred Halliday was able to field a more or less a settled XI, numerous players were tried in the centre forward position before the arrival of Bert Spreadbury in February 1920.[5] Despite scoring four goals in his first five appearances, Spreadbury failed to help the team gain any consistency and Brentford finished the season in 15th position.[5]
League table
Source:
[citation needed ] Rules for classification: The system of using
goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976-77 season. The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.
Results Brentford's goal tally listed first. Legend Southern League First Division No. Date Opponent Venue Result Scorer(s) 1 30 August 1919 Brighton & Hove Albion H 2–1 Boyne , Morley 2 1 September 1919 Millwall H 2–2 Boyne , Gilboy 3 6 September 1919 Newport County A 4–2 Boyne (2), Gilboy , Morley 4 8 September 1919 Millwall A 2–0 Boyne , Thompson 5 13 September 1919 Portsmouth H 0–2 6 20 September 1919 Northampton Town A 1–1 Boyne 7 24 September 1919 Exeter City A 0–0 8 27 September 1919 Crystal Palace H 0–0 9 4 October 1919 Southend United H 1–3 Hendren 10 11 October 1919 Norwich City H 1–1 Boyne 11 18 October 1919 Watford A 0–1 12 25 October 1919 Merthyr Town A 0–2 13 1 November 1919 Plymouth Argyle H 0–0 14 8 November 1919 Bristol Rovers A 1–3 Cannon 15 15 November 1919 Reading H 1–0 Amos 16 22 November 1919 Southampton A 1–0 Morley 17 29 November 1919 Luton Town H 3–1 Searby, Morley, Cartmell 18 6 December 1919 Gillingham A 2–0 Morley, Hendren 19 13 December 1919 Swansea Town H 1–1 Hendren (pen) 20 25 December 1919 Queens Park Rangers A 0–2 21 26 December 1919 Queens Park Rangers H 2–1 Searby, Boyne 22 27 December 1919 Cardiff City H 1–2 Thompson 23 3 January 1920 Brighton & Hove Albion A 0–4 24 17 January 1920 Newport County H 2–1 Searby, Embury 25 24 January 1920 Portsmouth A 0–3 26 31 January 1920 Northampton Town H 5–0 Boyne (3), Thompson, Hendren (pen) 27 7 February 1920 Crystal Palace A 1–1 Thompson 28 14 February 1920 Southend United H 2–0 Cartmell , Lockwood 29 21 February 1920 Norwich City A 1–1 Spreadbury 30 28 February 1920 Watford H 0–3 31 6 March 1920 Merthyr Town H 3–0 Spreadbury (2), Hendren 32 13 March 1920 Plymouth Argyle A 2–3 Thompson (2) 33 20 March 1920 Bristol Rovers H 3–0 Hendren , Morley, Spreadbury 34 27 March 1920 Reading A 0–1 35 2 April 1920 Swindon Town H 2–0 Morley, Boyne 36 3 April 1920 Southampton H 2–3 Taylor, Morley 37 5 April 1920 Swindon Town A 1–3 Gilboy 38 10 April 1920 Luton Town A 0–0 39 17 April 1920 Gillingham H 1–2 Thompson 40 24 April 1920 Swansea Town A 0–6 41 26 April 1920 Exeter City H 2–1 Thompson, Boyne 42 1 May 1920 Cardiff City A 0–2
FA Cup Round Date Opponent Venue Result Scorer R1 10 January 1920 Huddersfield Town A 1–5 Morris
Source: 100 Years of Brentford [5] Playing squad Players' ages are as of the opening day of the 1919–20 season. Pos. Name Nat. Date of birth (age) Signed from Signed in Notes Goalkeepers GK Jack Durston (1893-07-11 ) 11 July 1893 (aged 26) Queens Park Rangers 1919 Played when his cricket commitments allowed GK Ted Price (1883-06-13 ) 13 June 1883 (aged 36) Croydon Common 1912 Defenders DF Edward Hawkins (1895-10-31 ) 31 October 1895 (aged 23) Portsmouth 1919 DF Jimmy Hodson (1880-09-05 ) 5 September 1880 (aged 38) Belfast Celtic 1919 DF Bertie Rosier (1893-03-21 ) 21 March 1893 (aged 26) Southall 1913 DF Fred Webster (1887-04-03 ) 3 April 1887 (aged 32) Unattached 1919 Midfielders HB Alf Amos (1893-02-09 ) 9 February 1893 (aged 26) Old Kingstonians 1913 HB Herbert Ashford (1896-02-18 ) 18 February 1896 (aged 23) Southall 1919 HB Sam Morris (1886-10-23 ) 23 October 1886 (aged 32) Unattached 1919 HB Fred Taylor (1884-01-03 ) 3 January 1884 (aged 35) Unattached 1919 Forwards FW Reginald Boyne (1891-11-16 ) 16 November 1891 (aged 27) Aston Villa 1919 FW Jack Cartmell (1890-08-28 ) 28 August 1890 (aged 29) Unattached 1919 FW Sidney Embury (1893-06-12 ) 12 June 1893 (aged 26) Park Royal Athletic 1920 FW Bertram Gilboy (1894-08-15 ) 15 August 1894 (aged 25) Unattached 1919 FW Patsy Hendren (c) (1889-02-05 ) 5 February 1889 (aged 30) Queens Park Rangers 1911 Played when his cricket commitments allowed FW John Henery (1895-11-07 ) 7 November 1895 (aged 23) Houghton Rovers 1920 FW Fred Morley (1888-03-01 ) 1 March 1888 (aged 31) Unattached 1918 FW John Searby (1897-09-02 ) 2 September 1897 (aged 21) Atherstone Town 1919 FW Bert Spreadbury (1892-04-30 ) 30 April 1892 (aged 27) Royal Ordnance Woolwich 1920 FW Alfred Thompson (1891-04-28 ) 28 April 1891 (aged 28) Unattached 1919 Players who left the club mid-season GK Harry Dale (1899-04-23 ) 23 April 1899 (aged 20) Hampstead Town 1919 Transferred to Reading DF Walter Loveday (1890-06-30 ) 30 June 1890 (aged 29) Uxbridge 1920 n/a HB Tom McGovern (1888-11-11 ) 11 November 1888 (aged 30) Halifax Town 1913 Transferred to Queens Park Rangers FW George Cannon (1891-02-15 ) 15 February 1891 (aged 28) Unattached 1919 Transferred to Wimbledon FW Ernest Hanks (1888-04-06 ) 6 April 1888 (aged 31) Unattached 1919 n/a FW James Lockwood (1887-02-20 ) 20 February 1887 (aged 32) n/a 1920 n/a FW Robert Parr (1899-09-04 ) 4 September 1899 (aged 19) Unattached 1919 n/a
Sources: 100 Years of Brentford, [5] Timeless Bees,[6] Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939[7] Coaching staff Name Role Fred Halliday Secretary Manager Dusty Rhodes Trainer
Statistics Appearances and goals Brentford's highest appearance-makers in each position during the Southern League season.
Pos Nat Name League FA Cup Total Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals GK Harry Dale 1 0 — 1 0 GK Jack Durston 20 0 1 0 21 0 GK Ted Price 21 0 0 0 21 0 DF Edward Hawkins 14 0 0 0 14 0 DF Jimmy Hodson 34 0 1 0 35 0 DF Walter Loveday 1 0 — 1 0 DF Bertie Rosier 26 0 1 0 27 0 HB Alf Amos 33 1 1 0 34 1 HB Herbert Ashford 9 0 0 0 9 0 HB Tom McGovern 28 0 1 0 29 0 HB Sam Morris 36 0 1 1 37 1 HB Fred Taylor 22 1 0 0 22 1 FW Reginald Boyne 27 13 1 0 28 13 FW George Cannon 6 1 — 6 1 FW Jack Cartmell 35 2 1 0 36 2 FW Sidney Embury 4 1 0 0 4 1 FW Bertram Gilboy 19 3 0 0 19 3 FW Ernest Hanks 1 0 — 1 0 FW Patsy Hendren 30 6 1 0 31 6 FW John Henery 1 0 — 1 0 FW James Lockwood 1 1 — 1 1 FW Fred Morley 32 8 1 0 33 8 FW Robert Parr 1 0 — 1 0 FW John Searby 11 3 0 0 11 3 FW Bert Spreadbury 10 4 — 10 4 FW Alfred Thompson 28 8 1 0 29 8 FW Fred Webster 11 0 0 0 11 0
Players listed in italics left the club mid-season. Source: 100 Years of Brentford [5] Goalscorers Players listed in italics left the club mid-season. Source: 100 Years of Brentford [5] Victory international caps Management Name Nat From To Record All Comps Record League P W D L W % P W D L W % Fred Halliday 30 August 1919 1 May 1920 43 15 10 18 0 34.88 | 42 15 10 17 0 35.71
Summary Games played 43 (42 Southern League First Division, 1 FA Cup ) Games won 15 (15 Southern League First Division, 0 FA Cup) Games drawn 10 (10 Southern League First Division, 0 FA Cup) Games lost 18 (17 Southern League First Division, 1 FA Cup) Goals scored 53 (52 Southern League First Division, 1 FA Cup) Goals conceded 64 (59 Southern League First Division, 5 FA Cup) Clean sheets 13 (13 Southern League First Division, 0 FA Cup) Biggest league win 5–0 versus Northampton Town , 31 January 1920 Worst league defeat 6–0 versus Swansea Town , 24 April 1920 Most appearances 37, Sam Morris (36 Southern League First Division, 1 FA Cup) Top scorer (league) 13, Reginald Boyne Top scorer (all competitions) 13, Reginald Boyne
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