[Lord Snooty]

September 3:

On this date in 1910, having been elected into the Football League a few weeks earlier, Huddersfield Town played their first ever Football League match. It was an away game and a derby game at Bradford Park Avenue. They were in their third season in the League, having finished 16th and 10th previously.

A crowd of 16,000 turned up to see this one and they saw the League's new boys leave with the points in a 1-0 win. Henry Hamilton won the honour of scoring Huddersfield Town's first ever League goal. The team wore an all white kit, with blue bands around the neckline and were skippered by Welsh international defender Charlie Morris. There were ten Town debutants in the line up with just Joe Jee surviving from the last season in the Midland League.

The line up was......

1. Sandy Mutch - Signed from Aberdeen, stayed for 12 years.
2. Archie Taylor - Left for Barnsley and captained them to FA Cup glory in 1912.
3. Charlie Morris - Soon to become our first international.
4. Simon Beaton - 22 year old defender signed from Newcastle.
5. Ellis Hall - 21 year old defender signed from Stoke.
6. William Bartlett - 32 year old defender signed from The Wednesday.
7. George Blackburn - Playing against the team we signed him from.
8. John Wood - Striker who signed from Plymouth. Died in 1916 at the Somme.*
9. Henry Hamilton - Forward signed from The Wednesday. Left for Southampton.
10. Sandy McCubbin - 24 year old forward signed from Morton.
11. Joe Jee - 27 year old winger signed from Brighton.

*Still awaiting confirmation about this. He's still missing from the Club's Roll of Honour.

George Stephenson never played for Town, unlike his brother Clem who played through the glory years of the 1920s. George played in the same position as Clem for Villa, Derby, Wednesday, Preston and Charlton, as well as gaining three caps for England.

He was born on this date in 1900 in Seaton Delaval, a village in Northumberland, ten years after Clem was born. Just before his 47th birthday in 1947, he was appointed as manager of Huddersfield Town after David Steele had resigned.

George had four and a half seasons in charge, but they weren't successful as the Town struggled to adapt to life after the war. He left the job in 1952 to be replaced by Andy Beattie.

He later became a coach at Derby and then a pub landlord. He died in 1971 aged 70.

Finally today, a 0-0 draw. I only mention it because on this date in 1968, my dad took me to my first ever night match at Leeds Road. It was a League Cup 2nd round match, Town's first game in this competition since reaching the semis in the previous season and I was part of a crowd of 23,426. If I remember correctly, it wasn't a dull game and we sat in the wing stand, Cowshed side.

City were the current League champions and they put out a team full of regulars. We had John Oldfield in goal. The recently deceased Billy Legg played at left back. Jimmy Nicholson was captain, but Frank Worthington was missing, with Paul Aimson wearing his shirt number. They had star names like Mike Summerbee, Colin Bell and Franny Lee in theirs

So no goals in this one. No extra time or penalty shoot out either, so the game went to a replay. That was a week later at Maine Road and we got beat 4-0.

City, under the management team of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison, would get knocked out in the next round, but did go on to win the FA Cup that season.