The City Ground

STOKE CITY 3 - 0 FOREST - Sat Oct 17, 1896 (League Tier 1)

Date:: Sat Oct 17, 1896 (3:00 PM)
Opponent:: Stoke City
Home/Away:: Away
Ground:: Victoria Ground
Game Type:: League Tier 1
Score:: 0-3 (Lost)

Attendance:: 6,000
Position Before:: 11
Position After:: 12
Referee:: Henn
Season:: 1896-97

NEXT GAMES:
League Tier 1:: Burnley

GAME COUNT:
League:: 127 (of 4764)
League Tier 1: 127 (of 2183)
Competitive:: 193 (of 5452)
Total:: 794 (of 7185)

Sources:: AFS (11v11.com) (Link)
: Ken Smales - The First 125 Years

Review:
The original referee (Mr Adams) missed his train so the senior lineman took his place

Forest Goals:

Stoke City Goals:

Forest:
Manager: Harry Radford

Num	Pos	Player	Notes
1	GK	Dan Allsop
2	D	Archibald Ritchie
3	D	Adam Scott
4	M	Frank Forman
5	F	John McPherson
6	M	Alec Stewart
7	F	Fred Forman
8	F	Chas Richards
9	M	Adrian Capes
10	F	Arthur Capes
11	F	Tom McInnes
Subs
12		-
13		-
14		-
15		-
16		-
17		-
18		-

TABLES BEFORE AND AFTER THE GAME

Games on this day (Sat Oct 17, 1896)

Home	F	A	Away
Blackburn Rovers	1	0	Bolton Wanderers
Burnley	2	2	Preston North End
Bury	1	1	Sheffield Wednesday
Derby County	1	3	Aston Villa
Everton	1	2	Sheffield United
Stoke City	3	0	Nottingham Forest
Sunderland	4	3	Liverpool
West Bromwich Albion	1	0	Wolverhampton Wanderers

Table before:

									Home					Away
	Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
	1	Bolton Wanderers	7	5	2	0	12	4	3	1	0	6	1	2	1	0	6	3	8	12
	2	Sheffield United	6	3	3	0	11	5	2	1	0	4	0	1	2	0	7	5	6	9
	3	Liverpool	8	4	1	3	10	7	2	1	1	5	2	2	0	2	5	5	3	9
	4	Preston North End	6	3	2	1	15	11	3	0	0	13	7	0	2	1	2	4	4	8
	5	Aston Villa	7	3	2	2	11	10	2	1	1	7	5	1	1	1	4	5	1	8
	5	Blackburn Rovers	7	3	2	2	11	8	3	0	1	9	4	0	2	1	2	4	3	8
	7	Everton	6	4	0	2	10	8	2	0	1	6	5	2	0	1	4	3	2	8
	8	Sheffield Wednesday	7	3	1	3	11	12	2	1	1	8	6	1	0	2	3	6	-1	7
	9	Burnley	7	2	2	3	11	13	2	2	0	6	4	0	0	3	5	9	-2	6
	10	West Bromwich Albion	7	2	2	3	7	10	1	1	1	4	4	1	1	2	3	6	-3	6
	11	Derby County	6	2	1	3	13	12	2	1	1	13	9	0	0	2	0	3	1	5
	12	Wolverhampton Wanderers	7	2	1	4	10	10	1	1	2	3	4	1	0	2	7	6	0	5
	13	Nottingham Forest	5	1	3	1	9	8	1	1	0	6	2	0	2	1	3	6	1	5
	14	Stoke City	6	2	0	4	10	15	1	0	1	4	4	1	0	3	6	11	-5	4
	15	Sunderland	8	0	3	5	5	15	0	1	2	1	5	0	2	3	4	10	-10	3
	16	Bury	6	1	1	4	4	12	0	1	1	1	2	1	0	3	3	10	-8	3

Table after:

									Home					Away
	Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
	1	Bolton Wanderers	8	5	2	1	12	5	1	1	0	6	1	2	1	1	6	4	7	12
	2	Sheffield United	7	4	3	0	13	6	0	1	0	4	0	2	2	0	9	6	7	11
⇧	3	Aston Villa	8	4	2	2	14	11	5	1	1	7	5	2	1	1	7	6	3	10
⇧	4	Blackburn Rovers	8	4	2	2	12	8	5	0	1	10	4	0	2	1	2	4	4	10
⇩	5	Preston North End	7	3	3	1	17	13	7	0	0	13	7	0	3	1	4	6	4	9
⇩	6	Liverpool	9	4	1	4	13	11	2	1	1	5	2	2	0	3	8	9	2	9
	7	Everton	7	4	0	3	11	10	5	0	2	7	7	2	0	1	4	3	1	8
	8	Sheffield Wednesday	8	3	2	3	12	13	6	1	1	8	6	1	1	2	4	7	-1	8
⇧	9	West Bromwich Albion	8	3	2	3	8	10	5	1	1	5	4	1	1	2	3	6	-2	8
⇩	10	Burnley	8	2	3	3	13	15	4	3	0	8	6	0	0	3	5	9	-2	7
⇧	11	Stoke City	7	3	0	4	13	15	5	0	1	7	4	1	0	3	6	11	-2	6
⇩	12	Derby County	7	2	1	4	14	15	9	1	2	14	12	0	0	2	0	3	-1	5
⇩	13	Wolverhampton Wanderers	8	2	1	5	10	11	4	1	2	3	4	1	0	3	7	7	-1	5
⇧	14	Sunderland	9	1	3	5	9	18	6	1	2	5	8	0	2	3	4	10	-9	5
⇩	14	Nottingham Forest	6	1	3	2	9	11	2	1	0	6	2	0	2	2	3	9	-2	5
	16	Bury	7	1	2	4	5	13	2	2	1	2	3	1	0	3	3	10	-8	4