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06.12.1913 at 15:00 Callow Land, St Albans Road, Watford

Attendance :

Watford Orient

0 - 2

St Albans City

Referee :

Spartan League

Goalscorers

None	R. Stewart Willie Paul

Opening squads

P.Bruty
W.Langston
J.Walter
R.Contauche
S.Judge
S.Goodchild
A.Smith
A.Jones
H.Smith
E.Bullen
A.Green

Bob Jeffries
Jack Hillier
George Meagher
Willie Paul
R. Stewart
C. Hepworth
H. Wingfield
Jimmy Brandham
Herbert Smith
Leslie Hosier
Peter Walker

Substitutes

Substitutions

None

None.

Yellow cards

None

None.

Red cards

None

None.

Match report

An unorthodox but pleasant game was witnessed at Callow Land on Saturday. The game was necessarily unorthodox for the ground is such a bad one that to play good football is out of the question. In addition it is so small that most of the responsibility is thrown on the backs who, by lying well up, can easily boot the ball into their opponents’ goal-mouth and therefore the forwards have only to rush in and worry the backs and they must score goals.
It is difficult to see how the Orient Club is to continue, for on Saturday’s showing they have practically no support(1). The spectators did not number more than a hundred and one-half of these came from St Albans.
The game was contested in a friendly spirit, but an inexcusable action by Bullen just before the end roused Brandham’s ire and the two players nearly came to loggerheads.

Reprinted from “The Herts Advertiser & St Albans Times” – 13th December 1913

1 This was Orient’s second and last season in the Spartan League, after the Great War they stepped down to the Watford & District League.