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Tyre Service & GOODYEJRR Tyres SEASON mmamm TO-DAY'S SWANSEA TOWN SCOREBOARD M STOKE CITY BIRMINGHAM CITY TORQUAY UNITED ABOLTON WANDERERS NHUDDERSFIELD TOWN BISHOP AUCKLAND TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR B YORK CITY P PORT VALE BRISTOL ROVERS WEST BROM. ALBION CCHELSEA Csil CHARLTON ATHLETIC DONCASTER ROVERS SHREWSBURY TOWN DASTON VILLA R ALDERSHOT EVERTON SOUTHEND UNITED ELIVERPOOL SWALSALL HARTLEPOOLS ASTON VILLA RESERVES FNOTTINGHAM FOREST T 'WOLVES RESERVES MANCHESTER CITY MANCHESTER UNITED u NEWCASTLE UNITED H BRENTFORD V PRESTON NORTH END J SUNDERLAND w UNITED K LUTON TOWN X SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY LNOTTS COUNTY Y WOLVES GOALSCORERS AND APPEARANCES Official Programme APPEARANCES GOALSCORERS CENTRAL LEAGUE LEAGUE CUP LEAGUE CUP APPEARANCES GOALSCORERS WINNERS F.A. CUP Williams 27 Hancocks 13 Taylor 24 Thomson Taylor 12 Stuart 27 Sw inbourne 12 Sims 21 Wolverson Murray 6 J. 1892-3 1907-8 1948-9 Swinbourne 27 Wilshaiw 12 Deeley 19 Timmins Hancocks 5 Broadbertt 25 Broadbent 5 McDonald 19 Stockin McDonald 4 FINALISTS Slater 25 Mullen 5 Booth 16 Smith Clamp 4 Deeley Wright 25 Smith 4 Howe'!Is 16 Dwyer 4 1888-9 1895-6 1920-1 1938-9 Wilsfiaw 25 Slater 3 Clamp 14 Flowers Mullen 3 Flowers 123 Flowers 2 Murray 13 Cooper Booth 2 WINNERS FOOTBALL LEAGUE Shorthouse 23 Wright 1 Baillie 12 Hancocks Howel is 2 (WAR) CUP 1941-2 Smith 21 Deeley 1 Pritchard 11 Boraon Thomson 2 Hancocks 17 McDonald Guttridge 10 Hurley Crook 1 CHAMPIONS Mullen 14 Opponents Llll 10 Middleton Smith 1 Pritchard 7 own goal 2 Harris Stockin 1 Div. I 1953-4 Cooper Cfamp 4 Crook 1 Div. II - - • 1931-2 Deeley 4 Showed Bon&on 1 Russell .2 Mullen Div. Ill (North) - 1923-4 McDonald 1 Russell Central League 1931-2, 1950-1-2-3 (Up to and including January 22nd, 1955) RUNNERS-UP 1W Choice frf CVbMfAJfrAA Div, I. - 1937-8-9 1949-50/

MODELS TO SUIT ALL TASTES WEARWIII From £8 to £50 FOOTBALL LEAGUE #=- FIRST DIV1S10D THE WBARWBLL CYCLE CO. LTD. WOLViRHAMPTON Pa'ilton Bros. limited, Wolverhampton 1 FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION CUP — FOURTH ROUNT ) MOLINEUX GROUNDS, WOLVERHAMPTON Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club (1923) Limited (Covered Accommodation for 30,000) MOLINEUX GROUNDS, WOLVERHAMPTON SEASON 1964-55 SATURDAY, JANUARY 29th, 1955 Directors: Chairman: J. S. BAKER, Esq. Kick-off 2-45 p.m. Vice-Chairman: A. H. OAKLEY, Esq., J.P. J. EVANS, Esq. C. H. HUNTER, Esq. J. H. MARSHALL, Esq. Shirts: Manager: STANLEY CULLIS Secretary: JOHN T. HOW LEY Gold WOLVES Knickers: Telephone: 24053/4. Telegrams: "Wanderers" Wolverhampton Black RIGHT LEFT WILLIAMS NOTES BY "WANDERER"

STUART SH0RTH0USE THERE IS NO NEED TO REMIND US 2 3 F we needed any reminding that cup ties have a special place in the football scheme there was an excellent example at Grimsby. It was what happened Ithere, when we found ourselves surprisingly behind in the first 20 minutes, that SLATER WRIGHT FLOWERS makes it certain we shall treat any cup opponents with the utmost respect, never mind which Division they come from. 4 S 6 And if that goes for the general run of clubs, it goes even more so for Arsenal whom we are happy to welcome to our ground for the fourth round tie today. We know Arsenal of old, as the saying goes. We know their history, we know their HANCOCKS BROADBENT SWINBOURNE WILSHAW SMITH capabilities and we also know that whoever wins this game will do so only after 7 8 9 10 11 the toughest battle. But that is what we expect, and what, deep down, everybody likes in a cup tie. So we look forward to an entertaining and interesting afternoon. Linesman—Yellow Flag Referee— Linesman—Red Flag TIME THERE WAS A CHANGE ? J. S. McLOTJGHLIN J. H. CLOUGH N. N. HOUGH REAT respect though we have for the Gunners, we in Wolverhampton feel it (Manchester) (Bolton) (Macclesfield) is time there was a change in the cup records of the two clubs. In the past G Arsenal have been the winners whenever the draw has brought the clubs together. Among those games there were some dour struggles well within the memory HOLTON LISHMAN LAWT0N TAPSC0TT MILTON of many who will be watching today, and wh" \yill be as anxious as anybody in the district to see the boot on the other foot for a change. 11 10 9 8 7 Since the last time we met in the years before the war both teams have under­ gone a lot of changes but one thing we both have left in common, and that is the B0WEN F0THERINGHAM GORING ability to put up a fight. ANOTHER DAY TO REMEMBER 6 5 4 ITH that we can leave the cup tie to run its course whilst we reflect for a while on the sensational happenings last Saturday on this same ground. It Wis a long time since we saw such an out and out thriller, and to cap it all EVANS BARNES there was the spectacle of our old and respected friend Sam Bartram giving the 3 2 performance of his life on his 41st birthday. What a record of which to be proud, and how good it was to hear the Wolver­ hampton crowd giving him a vocal pat on the back. KELSEY We think Sam will remember his 1955 birthday and the visit to Wolverhampton. So shall we with a good deal of pleasure. LEFT RIGHT BAD LUCK FOR HAMMOND ESS happily shall we recall that it was in this match that Cyril Hammond, the Shirts: Knickers; Charlton wing half had an unfortunate accident. When he left the field just Red ARSENAL White L after half time few of us realised that his injury was so serious, and it was not until Monday that it was found he had broken a bone in his right leg. THE TEAMS ARE SUBJECT TO ALTERATION It was extremely bad luck for a player who has always done his job in a quiet, workmanlike way and we arc sure Molineux followers will join us in wishing him a speedy return to the game. Although footballers run so many risks by the very nature of the game, it is pleasant to reflect that serious accidents are few and far between. We hope it will stay that way. To COMPLETE enjoyment RESERVES HAD A DAY OFF ALL WOLVES FANS ASK FOR N the second of the weather affected Saturdays one of the games affected was our Central League match with Derby County at the Baseball Ground. It Owas called off on Saturday morning before our reserve team had set out for Derby. BUTLER'S BOTTLED BITTER Thus they had the rare experience of a Saturday afternoon without soccer, # but they probably enjoyed watching the first eleven as much as did the supporters present. 1

HE third round of The Cup was Fee-fi-fo-fum Day. The fourth? It may Against the Russians at , young Fotheringham be just as humdrum—that is, judged by the standard of Cup sensations. stepped out at centre-half and made something of a name. T Before, the First Division clubs were in no-man's-land — on risky ground, He's tall—over 6 ft.—and gets the ball in the air well . . . anyway. Today, of the 16 surviving, eight are paired: Wolves and Arsenal; a stubborn kind of stopper like the late Herbert Roberts, who Preston and Sunderland; the rival clubs of Manchester; West Bromwich Albion left a gunsmith's shop at Oswestry to leap into fame at and Charlton, who were seen at Molineux a week ago. Eight are at home and as " first of the third-backs," a claim eight away. Five Second Division teams are at home and six away. Two and two challenged by Chas. Spencer of Newcastle and Manchester is the Third Division set-up. So, while there are "smashing" matches, including United. the Derby days at Manchester and Liverpool, there isn't much scope for shock. In attack, Milton at outside-right is another of the The surprise items may include Bolton's fall at Birmingham and Chelsea's in-and-out men, meaning he has been cn-and-off form. Against the Wolves at defeat by Bristol Rovers—and these wouldn't be bombshells. A Liverpool win at Molineux last season and against the Russians this winter he was the life and soul Everton and the surrender of at Torquay—this would startle the of the forward-line, galloping away with the speed and swerve which gained him starlings. But the away team often wins the Mersey " Derby," and Torquay just an England cap against the Austrians in 1951. Also, he's a first-class batsman, slammed Leeds United in the earlier round. And if Port Vale win at Tottenham, for Gloucestershire. Sometimes Tom Lawton leads the forward line: he needs no one will merely reflect that the Potteries players defended their way into the introduction as English—British—football has produced few better. And there's semi-final a year ago and the 'Spurs are below par, anyway. Douglas Lishman. Birmingham-born and brought out by Walsall, who was top of No, the scope for shock is limited, this time. If all the away teams win there Arsenal's League scorers last season and latterly has been about the most consistent will still be 8 First, 6 Second, and 2 Third Division clubs in the last 16, and member of the line. what's so funny about that? Then there's Don Roper, who joined the camp at the age of 17 from and has been a valuable, versatile servant. Carries a surprise shot and can turn-in a jolly good performance, if need be, in defence. No, Arsenal are HERE ARE ARSENAL not now a power in the land but while the spirit and atmosphere engendered by HE Arsenal's visit is, of course, a tit-bit. These good friends from Highbury and Tom Whittaker remain in the club they give all they've got aren't exactly surrounded by the glamour of old but they're still an attraction and never say die. T . . . and just as the First Division wouldn't be the same without them, so they'd be hard to recognise in a lower group of the League. The slump started HUNGARY CALLING about the time when Barnes sustained that unhappy injury to his knee in the 1952 Cup Final. Since then the Welsh captain has been in and out of the side, and so HICH brings 'me to the never-say-die touch in our relations with foreign have stalwarts like Mercer, Smith, Logie and Forbes while the unreliable form of countries. Is the tide turning? The Wolves' wins over Spartak and Honved, Holton, once expected to be a discovery and driving-wheel, has created a Wand the England "B" 5-1 triumph over the much-boosted Italy "B" team, recurring problem, in attack. have exposed several prominent newspaper fallacies including the talk of inferior An injury to Dickson, the former Chelsea half-back and Irish International, staying-power and of the need for representative teams to train together for hours, complicated things this season and the team has never really got into stride . . . days, weeks, months in order to develop team-work. into the confident, swinging stride we have come to expect from this club. We Abroad, they are now talking of taking lessons from us. Makes a change, eh? know what happened to them when they went to Moscow. Well, in the return Listen to " Nepsport " of Hungary harping, still, on the Wolves win at Molineux: engagement, with Spartak, at Highbury, the Arsenal gave all they'd got in the old " The defence players were excellent, and often swept away the Hungarian Arsenal way. They didn't let English football down, that night. But the skill forwards, fully utilising their physical strength. We must reach the state when all wasn't there in attack; the test they put up was mostly tenacity and thrill, and it our players can keep up the speed on heavy ground, even in the 'most humid was left to the Wolves to expose the shortcomings of the young men from Moscow. atmosphere, just like the English could. In general, we must increase the strength The Arsenal of today are a comparatively unexperienced team in the throes of of training, too. Next year, our front rank footballers must train much better for rebuilding—and, at 19th, are all too near the foot of the League table in the the difficult tasks of the year. process. " We always say that we play football. The English fight. And there are T7MES/INDTE/1MS CHANGE times when there is a need for this struggle. This element must not be completely lacking from the qualities of our football. We must understand that one or two of HE eleven consequently changes. We know, however, that in defence Kelsey our players can still learn from the English in using the 'healthy' kick and accurate, T is a sound Welsh International goalkeeper and that Wally Barnes is still good bullet-like passes." enough to captain the Principality. Both Wills and Wade are London-born And it isn't so long since I was reading in the Continental newspapers that backs, and started out as half-backs. A change has also overtaken Goring, as he Hungarian commentators considered there was now no first-class football west of joined the club from Cheltenham Town as a hard-hitting centre-forward of the Moscow and Budapest. pattern and now is a hard-working half-back. 1954 FIXTURES 1955 LAST SATURDAY — WOLVES v. CHARLTON ATHLETIC FIRST DIVISION CENTRAL LEAGUE 1954 1954 Aug. 21—Sheffield Wednesday (4-1) h 4-2 Aug. 21—Everton (0-1) a 1-2 „ 25—Tottenham Hotspur (3-2) a 2-3 „ 23—Liverpool (1-1) a 2-1 „ 28—Portsmouth (0-2) a 0-0 „ 28— Chesterfield (4-1) h 3-1 „ 30—Tottenham Hotspur (2-0) h 4-2 Sept. 4—Sheffield Wednesday (3-1) 0-0 Sept. 4—Blackpool (4-1) h 1-0 6—Manchester United ... (1-3) 2-3 8—Sunderland (3-1) h 2-0 „ 11—Derby County (1-0) h 5-0 „ 11—Charlton Athletic ... (2-0) a 3-1 ,, 13—Manchester United ... (2-2) h 0-1 „ 16—Sunderland (2-3) a 0-0 ,, 18—Blackpool (1-1) a 3-2 „ 18—Bolton Wanderers ... (1-1) h 1-2 „ 25—Blackburn Rovers ... (2-0) h 3-1 „ 25—Huddersfield Town ... (1-2) a 0-2 Oct. 2—Bolton Wanderers ... (0-0) a 2-1 Oct. 2—Manchester United ... (9-1) h 4-2 ,, 9—Stoke City ...... (0-2) a 1-0 „ 9—Manchester City ... (3-1) h 2-2 , 16—Cardiff City (3-1) h 1-1 „ 23—Bartfsley (1-3) a 2-0 „ 23—West Bromwich A. ... (1-0) h 4-0 ,, 30—Burnley (0-2) h 1-1 ,, 30—Newcastle United ... (2-1) a 3-2 Nov. 6—Preston North End ... (0-1) 1-4 Nov. 6—Burnley (1-2) h 5-0 ,, 13—Bury ...... (6-0) h 4-1 ,, 13—Preston North End ... (1-0) a 3-3 „ 20—Leeds United (4-1) a 3-1 „ 20—Sheffield United ... (6-1) h 4-1 ,, 27—Manchester City (2-2) h 2-2 „ 27—Arsenal (3-2) a 1-1 Dec. 4—Newcastle United (5-1) 3-2 Dec. 4—Chelsea (8-1) h 3-4 „ 11—West Bromwich A. ... (M) h 4-2 ,, 11—Leicester City ... ( —) a 2-1 „ 18—Everton (3-1) h 1-0 ,, 18—Sheffield Wednesday (0-0) a 2-2 „ 25—Huddersfield Town ... (0-5) a 1-2 ,, 25—Ever ton ( —) h 1-3 „ 27—Huddersfield Town ... (4-0) h 0-1 „ 27—Ever ton ( —) a 2-3 1955 1955 Jan. 1—Chesterfield (0-0) a (2-0 Jan. 1—Portsmouth (4-3) h 2-2 ,, 8—Liverpool (3-0) h 1-1 „ 8—Grimsby Town (F.A.C. 3) a 2-5 „ 15—Sheffield Wednesday (1-2) h 2-3 „ 15—Blackpool (0-0) a 2-0 „ 22- ,, 22—Charlton Athletic ... (5-0) h 2-1 „ 29—Aston Villa (1-1) ,, 29—Arsenal (F.A.C. 4) h Feb. 5—Blackpool (*-*) h Feb. 5—Bolton Wanderers ... (1-1) a „ 12—Blackburn Rovers ... (2-0) „ 12—Huddersfield Town ... (4-0) h ,, 19—Bolton Wanderers ... (0-0) h „ 19—(5) Manchester United (0-1) „ 26—Stoke City (1-2) h ,, 26—Manchester City ... (4-0) Mar. 1—Bury (4-2) One of the many anxious moments in the Charlton goalmouth last Saturday. Mar. 5—Leicester City ( —) h „ 5—Sheffield United (1-2) Even Bartram was perturbed (note his flinching). The ball finally landed outside for 12—(6) West Bromwich A. (1-0) „ 12—Barns ley (4-0) h „ 19—Newcastle United (3-2) h ,, 19—Burnley (2-8) a a corner. ,, 26—Burnley (1-4) ,, 26—Preston North End ... (4-0) h April 2—Preston North End ... (1-0)(1-0) h April 9—Leeds United (5-0) h ,, 9—Chelsea #4) „ 12—Aston Villa (5-0) h ,, 11—Aston Villa (1-2)(1-2) h ,, 16—Manchester City (2-1) „ 12^-Aston Villa (2-1) „ 23—Newcastle United ... (.4-0) h „ 16—Arsenal (0-2)(0-2) h ,, 25—Sheffield United (1-0) h WOLVES MATCHES AND TEAMS „ 23—Sheffield United (S-S) „ 30—West Bromwich A. ... (2-1) ,, 30—Cardiff City ... (8-U May 7— JANUARY 212nd, 1955 W orcestershire Combination May 7— First Division v. Charlton Athletic (h) 2-1. v. Boldmere St. Michael's (a) 1-2. Reproduced by permission of the To be arranged— Williams. Stuart, Shorthouse, Slater, Wright, Phillips, Watton, Wickers, Ogden, Cooper, Football League Ltd., 6 Starkie St., Preston Derby County (1-3) Flowers, Hancocks, Broadbent, Swin- Slater, Jackson. Hickman, Wiggin, Adams, OTHER MATCHES bourne, Wilshaw, Smith. Elsmore. Sept. 20—-Glasgow Celtic (Friendly) at Celtic Park, Glasgow, 8-3 Scorer: Hancocks 2. Scorer: Hickman. „ 29—West Bromwich Albion (F.A. Charity Shield) at Molineux, 4-4. Birmingham League v. Tamworth (a) 2-1. Oct. 13—First Vienna () at Molineux 0-0 Dwyer. Pritchard, Millicent, Timmins, RESULT „ 28—Macoabi Tel-Aviv (Floodlight) at Molineux 10-0. Showell, Bolton, Bagnall, Murray, Bonson, Nov. 8—Wolves Youth v. England Youth (Floodlight) at Molineux, 1-0. Walmsley, Moore. Walsall Minor League Nov. 16—Spartak (Floodlight) at Molineux, 4-0. Scorers: Moore, Walmsley. Wolves io, Charlemont B.C. Dec. 13—Honved (Floodlight) at Molineux, 3-2. Mar. 23—Royal Navy v. R.A.F. at Molineux.

P. w. L. D. F. A. P. P. w. L. D. F. A. p. NEXT MATCH AT MOLINEUX WOLVES .. 27 13 6 8 60 40 34 BOLTON 26 16 5 5 44 16 37 SUND'LAND 27 10 3 14 46 35 34 PRESTON 23 16 5 2 54 24 34 Central League — Match No. 28. MAN UTD . 26 13 8 5 56 46 31 MAN. UTD . 25 14 5 6 57 33 34 PORTSMTH . 26 11 7 8 50 35 30 STOKE CITY 27 15 8 3 47 39 33 32 9 EVERTON 25 14 7 4 48 28 CHARLTON 26 13 4 55 41 30 14 7 4 49 32 32 27 11 8 8 51 41 30 WOLVES 25 BLACKPOOL RESERVES CHELSEA HUDDER'FLD 26 14 8 4 52 51 32 EVERTON 26 12 8 6 41 37 30 MAN CITY . . 27 12 9 6 48 49 30 NEWCASTLE 26 13 10 3 47 40 29 SATURDAY NEXT, FEBRUARY 5th, 1955. Kick-off 3 p.m. HUDDERSFLD 25 10 6 9 43 36 29 BLACKPOOL 26 11 9 6, 56 45 28 PRESTON ... 25 11 9 5 59 36 27 BURNLEY ... 28 10 11 7 55 43 27 BURNLEY 27 10 10 7 32 37 27 LIVERPOOL . 26 11 10 5 53 49 27 NEWCASTLE . 26 11 11 4 58 56 26 BURY 26 10 10 6 47 29 26 ALBION 26 10 10 6 50 55 26 SHEFF U. .. 26 10 12 4 45 45 2& TOTTENHAM. 27 9 12 6 48 52 24 W.B. ALBION 25 10 11 4 51 53 24 CARDIFF ... 25 9 10 6 42 48 24 SHEFF. WED. 26 10 12 4 42 55 24 A REAL On Sale ASTON VILLA 26 9 11 6 39 51 24 MAN CITY 24 9 10 5 43 38 23 24 9 11 4 39 44 22 SHEFF UTD 26 10 13 3 43 58 23 VILLA drink for at off BOLTON ... 25 7 9 9 37 41 23 BARNSLEY .. 24 7 13 4 31 43 18 ARSENAL 26 8 12 6 43 46 22 BLACKBURN 27 6 15 6 38 55 18 BLACKPOOL 27 7 14 6 36 49 20 LEEDS 26 6 15 5 40 71 17 Sportsmen the Bars LEICESTER 26 5 13 8 44 61 18 DERBY C. . 23 4 13 6 31 51 14 SHEFF WED.. 27 4 17 6 40 71 14 CHES'FIELD 26 2 21 3 33 79 7