1888–89 Everton F.C. season

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Everton

1888–89 season
Manager	William Edward Barclay
The Football League	8th
Top goalscorer	Edgar Chadwick (6)
Highest home attendance	15,000 vs Preston (19 January 1889)
Lowest home attendance	2,079 vs West Brom (23 February 1889)
Home colours
← none 1889–90 →

Regular First team[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — {{{pos}}}  ENG Robert Smalley 18 appearances in goal — {{{pos}}}  ENG George Dobson 18 appearances at right back — {{{pos}}}  SCO Nick Ross 19 appearances at left back — {{{pos}}}  SCO James Weir 16 appearances at centre back — {{{pos}}}  ENG Johnny Holt 17 appearances at centre back — {{{pos}}}  WAL George Farmer 21 appearances at centre half — {{{pos}}}  WAL Joe Davies 8 appearances at outside right — {{{pos}}}  ENG Robert Watson 18 appearances at inside right — {{{pos}}}  ENG Frank Sugg 9 appearances at centre forward — {{{pos}}}  ENG Edgar Chadwick ever present inside left — {{{pos}}}  ENG James Costley 6 appearances at outside left

Everton fielded by far the most unsettled side of all the twelve original Football League members, using thirty-five players in their twenty-two game campaign. Indeed, the club have never fielded more players in any season since, despite having played as many as twenty league games more in over fifty subsequent seasons. So inconsistent was their team selection that at no time did the above combination actually take the field. Not surprisingly Everton's best result of the season, a 6–2 victory over Derby County on 20 October 1888 was achieved with ten of the above players on the field. Robert Watson missed that game while his deputy, Alex McKinnon scored the only hat-trick obtained by an Everton player all season. This was the only game in which ten of the first eleven featured.

Other players used[]

Jack Angus (5 appearances at outside left), William Briscoe (3 apps – inside left), William Brown (6 apps – outside left), Albert Chadwick (2 apps – left back), J Coyne (2 apps – inside right), George Davie (2 apps – centre forward), Alec Dick (9 apps – right back), George Fleming (4 apps – outside right), Mike Higgins (1 app – centre half), Charles Jolliffe (4 apps – goalkeeper), Robert Jones (1 app – centre back), Bob Kelso (1 app – centre back), (1 app – centre forward), Wiliam Lewis (3 apps – centre forward), Alex McKinnon (6 apps – outside right), Alf Milward (6 apps – centre forward), (1 app – centre forward), Henry Parkinson (1 app – centre half), Hugh Pollock (1 app – centre back), Roberts (1 app – centre back), George Stephenson (1 app – centre back), Harry Warmby (1 app – centre back), David Waugh (7 apps – inside right), Walter Wilson (1 app – left back)

• NB position listed is that filled most commonly by the player during this season and may not always have been the role played.

League[]

Sources[]

• http://www.evertonfc.com/stats/?mode=players&era_id=1&season_id=2&seasons=2 Archived 17 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
• http://www.allfootballers.com