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17.10.1908 at 15:00 Gadebridge Hill

Attendance : 200

Hemel Hempstead

1 - 0

St Albans City

Referee :

Herts County League

Goalscorers

Englefield

None.

Opening squads

Nearey
Lane
Hale
Markham
Floyd
W.Clarke
Perry
Fensome
Dell
Coleman
Englefield

K. McIntyre
Charles Patrick
H. Chapman
Hugh Day
Tom Noel
Roy Morrison
Tommy Walker
A. Webb
Victor Bourdon
Leslie Hosier
Ivan Sharpe

Substitutes

Substitutions

None

None.

Yellow cards

None

None.

Red cards

None

None.

Match report

Ivan Gordon Sharpe

At Hemel Hempstead on Saturday St Albans City had to admit defeat at the hands of the locals in the County League tourney, by a goal to nil.
St Albans won the toss and the game opened in promising style, each side importing great vigour.
Hemel Hempstead were the first to press, tricky work by the forwards having excellent effect. Markham, the home right half, gave McIntyre a number of difficult drop shots to deal with and from one, about a quarter of an hour from the start, the only goal of the match was scored. The shot from Markham went right in the goal mouth and from the rebound, from McIntyre, H.W.Englefield(the county cricketer), secured and sent in the net.
There were appeals for off-side, which certainly seemed to have some ground, but the point was allowed. Hosier was in fine form and made many fine runs and centres, but often his efforts were useless, owing to the lack of support from the other forwards. From one of his centres Morrison got possession and got a nice shot in, but without effect.
The game became very poor towards the interval, but pulled round somewhat on the re-start, though only to drop again shortly. The homesters made several breaks and gave Bourdon and Patrick plenty to do. The home halves did fine and showed up much better than the City mid-line.
The game was not over-interesting and the winners were slightly superior.

Reprinted from “The St Albans Post” 21st October 1908.

Played at Gadebridge Hill, Hemel Hempstead.

1 Ivan Gordon Sharpe (1889 to 1968) went on to play as an amateur for Glossop, Leeds City and Derby County. He made eight appearances for the England Amateur team and won a gold medal at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm.
After retirement he became a journalist of some renown.