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18.04.1914 at 15:00

Attendance :

2nd Coldstream Guards

0 - 2

St Albans City

Referee :

Spartan League

Goalscorers

None	George Edmonds Ernest Grimsdell

Opening squads

Taylor
Collins
Whiting
Cooper
Roman
Smith
Walker
King
Tomkins
Howell
Dunk

Tom Hearn
George Meagher
Willie Paul
Frank Butterfield
George Edmonds
C. Hepworth
Ernest Grimsdell
Jimmy Brandham
Herbert Smith
Leslie Hosier
Arthur Wiggs

Substitutes

Substitutions

None

None.

Yellow cards

None

None.

Red cards

None

None.

Match report

St Albans City finished their Spartan League programme for the 1913-14 season with a decisive victory, the second in succession over the 2nd Coldstream Guards. The game began rather later than usual owing to the A.F.A.Senior Cup final played just before,(1) but when the Guards kicked off there was a large crowd of spectators around the ropes.
The Guards’ team had been considerably rearranged compared with the team which did duty on Easter Monday but, all the same, the City held the upper hand all through. The play on both sides gave evidence of the nearness of the end of the season, the Guards being particularly spiritless at times.

Reprinted from “The Herts Advertiser & St Albans Times” – 25th April 1914.

1 Played at Tufnell Park, Ealing beat Civil Service by 5 goals to 2.