1926 FA Charity Shield

November 2013 June 2021 1926 FA Charity Shield FA Charity Shield Amateurs Professionals 6 3 6 October 1926 Maine Road Manchester 1,500 1925 1927 The 1926 FA Charity Shield was the thirteenth staging of the FA Charity Shield, an annual :association football match arranged to raise funds for charitable causes supported by the Football Association (the FA), the governing body of football in England. For the fifth time, the match was contested by select teams of amateur and professional players.https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/engsupcuphist.html England – List of FA Charity/Community Shield Matches Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) James Ross 15 August 2013 20 November 2013 It was played on 6 October 1926, at Maine Road, Manchester, and ended as a 6–3 win for the Amateurs. Wilfred Minter and Frank Macey each scored twice, Edgar Kail once, and an own goal by Michael Keeping completed the Amateurs' scoring; Bill Rawlings scored twice and Fred Tunstall scored once for the Professionals. Pre-match The match was to be played at Maine Road, the home ground of Manchester City F.C., alongside the exhibitions and other entertainments of the city of Manchester's Civic Week.Civic Week, October 2–9 The Manchester Guardian 18 September 1926 13 The composition of the teams was selected by the international selection committee of the Football Association. The professionals were chosen from among those who had taken part in the Football Association XI's tour of Canada from May to July 1926.Association Football. F.A. Charity Shield Match The Times London 28 September 1926 5https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/britishfatours.html British "FA XI" Tours Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) Morrison, Neil 15 November 2012 5 December 2012 The teams lined up as originally selected, with two exceptions. Clifford Tarr replaced the injured Richard Jenkins of Polytechnic at outside right,Association Football. Amateurs v. Professionals The Times London 6 October 1926 5 and Corporal Cartlidge was a late replacement for Northern Nomads's Dr Fairbrother at wing half. The Amateurs included six of the men who had beaten the Professionals by six goals to one in the corresponding fixture in 1925; the Professionals included five full England internationals.Ward, Andrew Football's Strangest Matches 1999 Robson Books London 978-1861052926 60 Match summary The match began with a fine exhibition of passing by the Amateurs, but six minutes into the game David Jack fed Bill Rawlings who scored from close range to give the Professionals the lead. The lead was doubled in a similar fashion after 24 minutes. Rawlings had another two chances which he failed to take, and the Professionals seemed to be in control of the game. With half an hour gone, the Amateurs "added dash and determination to their pattern-work passing", and the tenor of the game changed dramatically. A neat pass from Frank Macey was touched over the line by Edgar Kail, and a couple of minutes later, Wilfred Minter hooked home after some "brilliant interpassing" between Macey and his left-wing partner Walter Bellamy. The score at the half-time interval remained 2–2. Jack missed from close range just after half-time, after which the game became one-sided. Macey scored after a clever passing move, and doubled the Amateurs' lead when he volleyed Tommy Gale's punched clearance straight back past him "with surprising pace" from 30 yards. Macey had also scored twice in the 1925 FA Charity Shield match, when the Amateurs beat the Professionals by six goals to one.Amateurs win The Times London 6 October 1925 6https://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/CommunityShield/1925-26CharityShield.htm 1925/26 F.A. Charity Shield Footballsite 20 November 2013 Minter collected a through ball and scored his second and his team's fifth off the inside of the post, and the last came when, under pressure from Macey, Michael Keeping overhit a back-pass to his goalkeeper. Fred Tunstall scored in the last minute for the Professionals, and the match ended 6–3. Match details 6 October 1926 15:00 Amateurs 6–3 https://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/CommunityShield/1926-27CharityShield.htm 1926/27 F.A. Charity Shield Footballsite 20 November 2013 Professionals KailMinter (2)Macey (2)Keeping (o.g.) Rawlings (2)Tunstall Maine Road, Manchester 1,500 AmateursProfessionalsGoalkeeper A.M. RussellCambridge UniversityGoalkeeper Tommy GaleBarnsleyFull back Sgt Frank TwineThe ArmyFull back George CliffordPortsmouthFull back E.H. GatesLondon CaledoniansFull back Michael KeepingSouthamptonWing half Cpl CartlidgeThe ArmyWing half Tommy MageeWest Bromwich AlbionCentre half Billy BryantMillwallCentre half Jimmy WaughSheffield UnitedWing half F.H. EwerCorinthiansWing half George HarkusSouthamptonForward Clifford TarrMossleyForward Wally HarrisBirminghamForward Edgar KailDulwich HamletForward David JackBolton WanderersForward Wilfred MinterSt Albans CityForward Bill RawlingsSouthamptonForward Frank MaceyKingstonianForward Joe SmithBolton WanderersForward Walter BellamyDulwich HamletForward Fred TunstallSheffield United Post-match Medals were presented to both teams by the Lord Mayor of Manchester, Councillor Miles E. Mitchell. The Manchester Guardian was disappointed with the Professionals, whose forwards could not finish, whose creative players were ineffective, and whose defensive players were not up to the standard of their Amateur counterparts and failed to communicate with their goalkeeper. In contrast, Bellamy crossed well, and the "indefatigable" Macey "set an example to every player on the field in the matter of shooting." They were well supported by a "hard-working set of half-backs, who stood on no ceremony, and persisted in their tackling with the relish and vigour of terriers", Bryant in particular, whose play both defensive and constructive impressed, "and [whose] ground passing was something of a model", and by a confident pair of full backs in E.H. Gates and Frank Twine. Bryant wrote some years later that Macey "gave the finest exposition of inside forward play I have ever seen, and quite overshadowed the more famous Bolton Wanderers' inside forwards, David Jack and Joe Smith."Bryant, W.I. (23 October 1933). "When amateur soccer gave the professionals a shock." Daily Mirror: p. 29. The result of the match was so unexpected that it found a place in a 1999 compilation of "football's strangest matches". The attendance was disappointing – "no more than 1,500", according to the Times, and the Guardian called it very poor – and for the 1927 fixture, the Football Association reverted to a match between two club teams. The receipts from the match, of £181, were donated to the Ypres Memorial Church building fund.Playing Fields for Young Players. Council to Co-operate The Yorkshire Post 19 October 1926 14 British Newspaper Archive References 30em Amateurs Overplay Professionals Daily Express London 7 October 1926 13 Professionals Beaten by Amateurs Manchester Guardian 7 October 1926 3 Amateurs' Fine Win Daily Mirror London 7 October 1926 19 Association Football. An Amateur Triumph The Times London 7 October 1926 6 Category:FA Community Shield matches Charity Shield Category:October 1926 sports events in the United Kingdom Category:1920s in Manchester Category:Football matches in Manchester Category:Amateur versus professional association football matches