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26.10.1912 at 15:00 Clarence Park Attendance :
St Albans City
8 - 1
Hertford Town
Referee : Mr.C.H.Bayliss(Hitchin) Herts Charity Cup Final match

Goalscorers
Billy Clark
George Edmonds
George Edmonds
George Edmonds
Leslie Hosier
Leslie Hosier
Fred Palmer
Dickie Hammond
F.Bentley
Opening squads
Sammy Hatton
Fred Palmer
George Meagher
Archie Michell
George Edmonds
Dickie Hammond
Billy Clark
Ernest Grimsdell
Jimmy Brandham
Herbert Smith
Leslie Hosier
G.E.Trory
W.Harrington
G.North
R.Hall
A.H.Brand
W.Calway
H.West
P.Hayward
F.Bentley
E.G.Wiltshire
E.J.Drury
Substitutes
Substitutions
None. None
Yellow cards
None. None
Red cards
None. None
Match report

Archie Michell
Although St Albans City were so much superior to Hertford Town in the Final of the Herts Charity Cup at Clarence Park on Saturday, that they would have won in any case. Misfortune dogged the footsteps of the team from the County Town. In the first place, Hertford were somewhat unfortunate in having to come to St Albans – that probably robbed them of their chance of winning the cup – and then they were further unlucky in having to meet the clever St Albans eleven at the top of their form.
To make matters worse for them, before the first half had half run it’s course, Trory, who had been playing quite a brilliant game in the Hertford goal and had kept it intact, strained his leg in taking a goal kick and had to leave the field.
To crown everything the game was played in a drenching rain and the “gate” was practically ruined, only about £7 10s being taken.
The City, who played very skilful football despite the conditions, scored freely at one period of the game, but in the last twenty-five minutes Hertford Town improved to an astonishing extent and held their opponents in a manner that the majority of the spectators had not previously thought them capable of.

A.Michell, who is becoming one of the City’s most valuable players, had a narrow escape from a very dangerous fall last week. He was following his business as a carpenter at Tring on the Tuesday when he fell from a plank at a height of twenty feet to a concrete floor. Though he was unconscious when picked up, it was found that no bones were broken and though considerably bruised and shaken, Michell, with great care, was able to turn out on Saturday and play a very fine game. It is a coincidence that last year his wing partner, Hosier, who is an electrician, was also injured by falling from a scaffold.

Reprinted from “The Herts Advertiser and St Albans Times” 2nd November 1912.