1893–94 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season

Burslem Port Vale
1893–94 season
Chairman	Edward Oliver
Manager	Enoch Hood
Stadium	Athletic Ground
Football League Second Division	7th (30 Points)
FA Cup	First Qualifying Round
Birmingham Senior Cup	Second Round
Staffordshire Senior Cup	Second Round
Top goalscorer	League: Billy Beats (16); All: Billy Beats (20)
Highest home attendance	5,000 vs Liverpool (7 April 1894)
Lowest home attendance	500 vs Grimsby Town (4 December 1893)
Average home league attendance	2,185+
	Home colours
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	← 1892–93 1894–95 →

Vale official, and future chairman Sam Bennion was forced to take to the field when the club ran short of players.

The 1893–94 season was Burslem Port Vale's second consecutive season of football in the Football League. Winning their opening seven league games, Vale seemed destined for First Division football, however they won just six of their final 22 games and ended up in mid-table.^[1] Their remarkable start to the season has not been equalled by any Vale team to date, and counting the previous season's final game, which was a victory, their streak of eight league wins is still a club record. Vale had remedied their scoring trouble, with five players all besting the previous season's top scorer tally of five goals.

One of the club's most successful seasons, only in 1930–31 did Port Vale finish higher than seventh in the second tier of the Football League. With 16 teams in the First Division, Vale finished in 23rd place overall, their highest ever ranking at the end of any season.

Overview[edit]

Second Division[edit]

Future England international goalkeeper, Tom Baddeley, made his debut in the league for Vale in this season.

September 1893 was a perfect month for the "Valeites", achieving as they did seven wins out of seven games, scoring 30 goals in the process.^[1] Although two of these came against whipping boys Northwich Victoria, they did take apart eventual runners-up Small Heath 5–0. However this run came to an end with an 8–1 collapse at a highly physical Manchester City.^[1] During this run, on 9 September 1893, Lewis Campbell became the first Vale player to score a hat-trick, and also four goals in one game, as his team brushed aside Walsall Town Swifts 5–0.^[1]

They finished the season with a respectable 2–1 defeat to champions Liverpool at Anfield. Vale racked up 30 points, 10 points away from both the chance of promotion and the risk of relegation. Meshach Dean, Bob McCrindle, Billy Beats, and Alf Wood were all ever-presents, with Jimmy Scarratt and Lewis Campbell missing just one game each. At the end of the season McCrindle moved South, Campbell also left the area due to his wife not liking Burslem, though star striker Beats remained.^[1]

Cup competitions[edit]

For the second successive season they exited the FA Cup at the first qualifying stage thanks to defeat at home to Burton Swifts. In the Staffordshire Senior Cup they exited in the Second Round to Wolverhampton Wanderers after a 6–4 loss – Billy Beats scored a hat-trick yet still finding himself on the losing side. In the Birmingham Senior Cup they left at the Second Round after a 3–1 defeat at West Bromwich Albion.

Final league table[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	F	A	GA	Pts
1	Liverpool	28	14	0	0	46	6	8	6	0	31	12	77	18	4.278	50
2	Small Heath	28	12	0	2	68	19	9	0	5	35	25	70	31	2.341	42
3	Notts County	28	12	1	1	55	14	6	2	6	15	17	70	31	2.258	39
4	Newcastle United	28	12	1	1	44	10	3	5	6	22	29	66	39	1.692	36
5	Grimsby Town	28	11	1	2	47	16	4	1	9	24	42	71	58	1.224	32
6	Burton Swifts	28	9	1	4	52	26	5	2	7	27	35	79	61	1.295	31
7	Burslem Port Vale	28	10	2	2	43	20	3	2	9	23	44	66	64	1.031	30
8	Lincoln City	28	5	4	5	31	22	6	2	6	28	36	59	58	1.017	28
9	Woolwich Arsenal	28	9	1	4	33	19	3	3	8	19	36	52	55	0.945	28
10	Walsall Town Swifts	28	8	1	5	36	23	2	2	10	15	38	51	61	0.836	23
11	Middlesbrough Ironopolis	28	7	4	3	27	20	1	0	13	10	52	37	72	0.514	20
12	Crewe Alexandra	28	3	7	4	22	22	3	0	11	20	51	42	73	0.575	19
13	Manchester City	28	6	1	7	32	20	2	1	11	15	51	47	71	0.662	18
14	Rotherham Town	28	5	1	8	28	42	1	2	11	16	49	44	91	0.484	15
15	Northwich Victoria	28	3	3	8	17	34	0	0	14	13	64	30	98	0.306	9

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against;
GA = Goal average; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

Results[edit]

Burslem Port Vale's score comes first

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Ground	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	L	W	D	W	L	L	L	W	L	D	L	D	W	L	D	L
Position	5	3	4	1	1	1	1	1	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	6	6	6	7

Source: Statto^[2]
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Football League Second Division[edit]

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
2 September 1893	Manchester City	H	4–2	2,500	Beats (2), Scarratt, Sands
9 September 1893	Walsall Town Swifts	A	5–0	2,000	Campbell (4), Beats
16 September 1893	Crewe Alexandra	H	4–2	2,000	Wood (2), Beats, Campbell
18 September 1893	Middlesbrough Ironopolis	H	4–0	3,000	Campbell, Beats, Dean, Wood
23 September 1893	Northwich Victoria	A	5–1		Campbell (2), Dean, Scarratt, unknown
25 September 1893	Small Heath	H	5–0	3,000	Beats (3), Wood, Scarratt
30 September 1893	Northwich Victoria	H	3–2	2,500	Wood (2), Beats
7 October 1893	Manchester City	A	1–8	6,000	Wood
21 October 1893	Rotherham Town	H	2–3	1,000	Dean, Scarratt
26 October 1893	Notts County	A	1–6	3,000	Dean
28 October 1893	Rotherham Town	A	1–0	2,000	Beats
25 November 1893	Notts County	H	1–0	1,000	Wood
2 December 1893	Grimsby Town	A	0–4	2,000
4 December 1893	Grimsby Town	H	6–1	500	Beats (2), Scarratt (2), Elson, Corfield
9 December 1893	Crewe Alexandra	A	1–1		own goal
16 December 1893	Burton Swifts	H	3–1		Campbell (2), Dean
25 December 1893	Woolwich Arsenal	A	1–4	8,000	Wood
30 December 1893	Newcastle United	A	1–2	3,000	Beats
1 January 1894	Middlesbrough Ironopolis	A	1–3	4,000	unknown
6 January 1894	Woolwich Arsenal	H	2–1	900	Dean, Wood
13 January 1894	Burton Swifts	A	3–5	2,000	Elson, Dean, Campbell
3 February 1894	Newcastle United	H	1–1	2,000	Wood
10 February 1894	Walsall Town Swifts	H	1–2	3,000	Beats
24 February 1894	Lincoln City	A	2–2	2,000	Beats (2)
10 March 1894	Lincoln City	H	5–3	2,000	Campbell (2), Edwards (2), Scarratt
24 March 1894	Small Heath	A	0–6	4,000
7 April 1894	Liverpool	H	2–2	5,000	Dean, Wood
14 April 1894	Liverpool	A	1–2	5,000	Edwards

The Burslem Port Vale team in 1894.

FA Cup[edit]


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Goalscorers
1Q	14 October 1893	Burton Swifts	H	3–4	Beats, Dean, Campbell

Birmingham Senior Cup[edit]


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
1	20 January 1894	Redditch Town	A	4–2	1,350	Scarratt (2), Campbell, Dean
2	12 February 1894	West Bromwich Albion	A	1–3	2,100	Wood

Staffordshire Senior Cup[edit]


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
2	5 March 1894	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	4–6	2,000	Beats (3), Wood

Player statistics[edit]

Appearances[edit]

Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		Other		Total
Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
GK	Joe Frail	10	0	1	0	0	0	11	0
GK	Tom Baddeley	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0
GK	Hugh Mackay	16	0	0	0	2	0	18	0
DF	James Clutton	8	0	1	0	0	0	9	0
DF	George Youds	22	0	1	0	0	0	23	0
DF	William Corfield	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	1
DF	G.S. Eccles	6	0	0	0	3	0	9	0
DF	Sam Bennion	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
DF	John Edwards	6	3	0	0	2	0	8	3
DF	Bob Ramsay	16	0	0	0	1	0	17	0
DF	William Rhodes	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
MF	Meshach Dean	28	8	1	1	3	2	32	10
MF	Billy Elson	26	2	1	0	2	0	29	2
MF	Fred Farrington	4	0	1	0	0	0	5	0
MF	Bob McCrindle	28	0	1	0	3	0	32	0
MF	Jimmy Scarratt	27	7	1	0	3	2	31	9
MF	James Smith	14	0	0	0	0	0	14	0
MF	Alf Wood	28	12	1	0	3	2	32	14
MF	Joseph Boughey	5	0	0	0	3	0	8	0
MF	Lewis Campbell	27	13	1	1	3	1	31	15
MF	Alex Sands	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
FW	Billy Beats	28	16	1	1	3	3	32	20
FW	Dick Danks	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0

Scorers[edit]

Top scorer Billy Beats

All competitions[edit]

Scorer	Goals
Billy Beats	20
Lewis Campbell	15
Alf Wood	14
Meshach Dean	10
Jimmy Scarratt	9
John Edwards	3
Billy Elson	2
William Corfield	1
Alex Sands	1

League[edit]

Scorer	Goals
Billy Beats	16
Lewis Campbell	13
Alf Wood	12
Meshach Dean	8
Jimmy Scarratt	7
John Edwards	3
Billy Elson	2
William Corfield	1
Alex Sands	1

Transfers[edit]

Transfers in[edit]

Date from	Position	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
June 1893	DF	George Samuel Eccles	Middleport	Free transfer	^[3]
October 1893	MF	Lewis Campbell	Aston Villa	Free transfer	^[3]
October 1893	GK	Hugh Mackay	Rotherham Town	Free transfer	^[3]
October 1893	DF	Bob Ramsay	Northwich Victoria	Free transfer	^[3]

Transfers out[edit]

Date from	Position	Name	To	Fee	Ref.
September 1893	MF	Alex Sands		Released	^[3]
October 1893	DF	James Clutton		Released	^[3]
May 1894	GK	Hugh Mackay	Wigan County	Released	^[3]
May 1894	DF	Bob Ramsay		Released	^[3]
Summer 1894	DF	Sam Bennion		Released	^[3]
Summer 1894	MF	Lewis Campbell	Walsall Town Swifts	Released	^[3]
Summer 1894	DF	William Corfield		Released	^[3]
Summer 1894	FW	Billy Elson	West Manchester	Free transfer	^[3]
Summer 1894	MF	Dick Danks		Released	^[3]
Summer 1894	MF	Fred Farrington		Retired	^[3]
Summer 1894	MF	Bob McCrindle	Luton Town	Free transfer	^[3]

References[edit]

Specific

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Kent, Jeff (1990). "Trying to make the Grade (1888-1898)". The Valiants' Years: The Story Of Port Vale. Witan Books. pp. 26–50. ISBN 0-9508981-4-7.
^ Port Vale 1893–1894 : Results & Fixtures. Statto Organisation. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.

General

Kent, Jeff (1993). The Port Vale Record 1879-1993. Witan Books. ISBN 0-9508981-9-8.

[Kent-1] Kent, Jeff (1990). "Trying to make the Grade (1888-1898)". The Valiants' Years: The Story Of Port Vale. Witan Books. pp. 26–50. ISBN 0-9508981-4-7.

[2] Port Vale 1893–1894 : Results & Fixtures. Statto Organisation. Retrieved 28 April 2012.

[transfers-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Kent, Jeff (1996). Port Vale Personalities. Witan Books. ISBN 0-9529152-0-0.

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v t e Port Vale F.C. seasons
1890–91 1891–92 1892–93 1893–94 1894–95 1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 99–1900
1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10
1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20
1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30
1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40
1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50
1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60
1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70
1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80
1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90
1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 99–2000
2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10
2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20

v t e Port Vale Football Club
History Managers Records Seasons
Grounds	Athletic Ground Old Recreation Ground Vale Park
Players	25+ appearances <25 appearances Player of the Year Winners
Matches	1989 Play-off Final 1993 League Trophy Final 1993 Play-off Final 1996 Anglo-Italian Final 2001 League Trophy Final Potteries derby