1950–51 Rochdale A.F.C. season

Rochdale
1950–51 season
Manager	Ted Goodier
Stadium	Spotland Stadium
Division 3 North	11th
F.A. Cup	3rd Round
Top goalscorer	League: Jack Connor; All: Jack Connor
	← 1949–50 1951–52 →

The 1950–51 season saw Rochdale compete for their 23rd season in the Football League Third Division North.

Statistics[]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Division 3 North		F.A. Cup		Lancashire Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	GK	ENG	Trevor Churchill	28	0	28	0	0	0	0	0
	DF	ENG	Bill Watson	44	0	42	0	2	0	0	0
	DF	ENG	Harry Hubbick	30	0	29	0	0	0	1	0
	MF	SCO		42	4	38	4	3	0	1	0
	DF	ENG	Wally Birch	46	1	43	1	3	0	0	0
	MF	SCO		9	0	9	0	0	0	0	0
	MF	ENG	Jackie Arthur	39	5	35	4	3	1	1	0
	FW	ENG	Jack Livesey	42	12	38	11	3	1	1	0
	FW	ENG	Jack Connor	27	17	26	16	1	1	0	0
	FW	ENG	Cyril Brown	24	3	22	3	2	0	0	0
	MF	ENG	Alan Steen	35	6	32	5	3	1	0	0
	GK	ENG		12	0	9	0	3	0	0	0
	FW	ENG	Jimmy Whitehouse	35	11	32	9	2	2	1	0
	MF	ENG	Gordon Medd	5	1	5	1	0	0	0	0
	GK	WAL	Archie Hughes	10	0	9	0	0	0	1	0
	MF	ENG	Eric Wood	9	0	8	0	1	0	0	0
	MF	ENG	Don Partridge	7	0	5	0	1	0	1	0
	FW	ENG	Bert Foulds	7	1	6	1	0	0	1	0
	MF	ENG		4	1	3	1	0	0	1	0
	FW	ENG	Alan Middlebrough	18	11	15	9	2	1	1	1
	DF	SCO	Harry Boyle	20	0	17	0	3	0	0	0
	DF	ENG		3	0	2	0	0	0	1	0
	MF	ENG	Bill Heaton	6	0	5	0	1	0	0	0
	MF	ENG	Ken Crowther	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
	FW	SCO		17	3	17	3	0	0	0	0
	MF	SCO	Alastair Buchan	19	0	19	0	0	0	0	0
	DF	ENG		4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
	MF	ENG	Eric Barber	5	1	5	1	0	0	0	0
	FW	ENG		1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0

Final league table[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	HW	HD	HL	HGF	HGA	AW	AD	AL	AGF	AGA	GAv	Pts
9	Crewe Alexandra	46	11	5	7	38	26	8	5	10	23	34	1.017	48
10	Stockport County	46	15	3	5	45	26	5	5	13	18	37	1.000	48
11	Rochdale	46	11	6	6	38	18	6	5	12	31	44	1.113	45
12	Scunthorpe & Lindsey United^[a]	46	10	12	1	32	9	3	6	14	26	48	1.018	44
13	Chester	46	11	6	6	42	30	6	3	14	20	34	0.969	43

Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

^ New club in the league

Competitions[]

Football League Third Division North[]

19 August 1950 (1950 -08-19) 1	Darlington	0 – 2	Rochdale	Darlington
		Report	Connor Arthur	Stadium: Feethams Attendance: 10530 Referee: F. Walton

21 August 1950 (1950 -08-21) 2	Bradford Park Avenue	0 – 1	Rochdale	Bradford
		Report	Arthur	Stadium: Park Avenue Attendance: 19058 Referee: HT Wright

26 August 1950 (1950 -08-26) 3	Rochdale	1 – 1	Stockport County	Rochdale
	Livesey	Report	Black	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 13075 Referee: J McCann

29 August 1950 (1950 -08-29) 4	Rochdale	1 – 2	Bradford Park Avenue	Rochdale
	Livesey	Report	Elliott Wheat	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 10743 Referee: HT Wright

2 September 1950 (1950 -09-02) 5	Halifax Town	1 – 1	Rochdale	Halifax
		Report	Connor	Stadium: The Shay Attendance: 10219 Referee: C Fletcher

5 September 1950 (1950 -09-05) 6	Rochdale	5 – 0	Shrewsbury Town	Rochdale
	Medd Connor Livesey	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 8863 Referee: KA Collinge

9 September 1950 (1950 -09-09) 7	Rochdale	3 – 1	Hartlepools United	Rochdale
	Connor Whitehouse	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 9146 Referee: WHE Evans

11 September 1950 (1950 -09-11) 8	Shrewsbury Town	0 – 2	Rochdale	Shrewsbury
		Report	Connor	Stadium: Gay Meadow Attendance: 8017 Referee: KA Collinge

16 September 1950 (1950 -09-16) 9	Gateshead	4 – 1	Rochdale	Gateshead
	Wilbert Winters Callender (pen.)	Report	Whitehouse	Stadium: Redheugh Park Attendance: 13607 Referee: PF Power

23 September 1950 (1950 -09-23) 10	Rochdale	1 – 1	Crewe Alexandra	Rochdale
		Report	Phillips	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 8576 Referee: WHE Evans

30 September 1950 (1950 -09-30) 11	New Brighton	1 – 5	Rochdale	New Brighton
	Carter	Report	Steen Livesey (pen.) (pen.) Brown	Stadium: Tower Athletic Ground Attendance: 4852 Referee: J Houston

7 October 1950 (1950 -10-07) 12	Rochdale	0 – 1	York City	Rochdale
		Report	Linaker	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 8123 Referee: A Holland

14 October 1950 (1950 -10-14) 13	Barrow	4 – 3	Rochdale	Barrow-in-Furness
	King	Report	Whitehouse Middlebrough Brown	Stadium: Holker Street Attendance: 5645 Referee: F Thurman

21 October 1950 (1950 -10-21) 14	Rochdale	3 – 1	Accrington Stanley	Rochdale
	Connor Birch (pen.)	Report	Keeley	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 8027 Referee: H Jackson

28 October 1950 (1950 -10-28) 15	Carlisle United	4 – 0	Rochdale	Carlisle
	Brown McCue Turner	Report		Stadium: Brunton Park Attendance: 13295 Referee: J Bell

4 November 1950 (1950 -11-04) 16	Rochdale	2 – 3	Tranmere Rovers	Rochdale
	Arthur Livesey	Report	Rosenthal Wheeler Bell	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 7886 Referee: HT Wright

11 November 1950 (1950 -11-11) 17	Southport	1 – 1	Rochdale	Southport
	Rothwell	Report	Brown	Stadium: Haig Avenue Attendance: 6374 Referee: J Platt

18 November 1950 (1950 -11-18) 18	Rochdale	0 – 2	Rotherham United	Rochdale
		Report	Grainger Guest	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 7986 Referee: FL Overton

2 December 1950 (1950 -12-02) 19	Rochdale	2 – 0	Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	Rochdale
	Middlebrough	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 5213 Referee: H Jackson

23 December 1950 (1950 -12-23) 20	Stockport County	2 – 2	Rochdale	Stockport
	Dick Black	Report	Whitehouse Middlebrough	Stadium: Edgeley Park Attendance: 10152 Referee: J McCann

25 December 1950 (1950 -12-25) 21	Lincoln City	4 – 2	Rochdale	Lincoln
	Finch 7', 32', 60' Garvie 54'	Report	Arthur 45' Middlebrough 65'	Stadium: Sincil Bank Attendance: 9873 Referee: T Seymour

13 January 1951 (1951 -01-13) 22	Hartlepools United	0 – 0	Rochdale	Hartlepool
		Report		Stadium: Victoria Park Attendance: 7585 Referee: H Beacock

16 January 1951 (1951 -01-16) 23	Rochdale	2 – 3	Chester	Rochdale
	Steen Whitehouse	Report	Burgess Devonshire	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 1435

20 January 1951 (1951 -01-20) 24	Rochdale	2 – 0	Gateshead	Rochdale
	Livesey (pen.) Middlebrough	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 5612 Referee: PF Power

27 January 1951 (1951 -01-27) 25	Chester	1 – 3	Rochdale	Chester
	Astbury	Report	Livesey Middlebrough	Stadium: Sealand Road Attendance: 4534

3 February 1951 (1951 -02-03) 26	Crewe Alexandra	3 – 1	Rochdale	Crewe
	Phillips Travis	Report	Livesey (pen.)	Stadium: Gresty Road Attendance: 6941

10 February 1951 (1951 -02-10) 27	Rochdale	0 – 1	Oldham Athletic	Rochdale
		Report	McIlvenny	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 14238

17 February 1951 (1951 -02-17) 28	Rochdale	1 – 0	New Brighton	Rochdale
	Middlebrough	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 3689

24 February 1951 (1951 -02-24) 29	York City	2 – 2	Rochdale	York
	Linaker Brown	Report	Livesey Steen	Stadium: Bootham Crescent Attendance: 7664

3 March 1951 (1951 -03-03) 30	Rochdale	1 – 0	Barrow	Rochdale
	Middlebrough	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 5509

10 March 1951 (1951 -03-10) 31	Accrington Stanley	1 – 2	Rochdale	Accrington
	Keeley	Report	Whitehouse Connor	Stadium: Peel Park Attendance: 4281

17 March 1951 (1951 -03-17) 32	Rochdale	4 – 1	Carlisle United	Rochdale
	Steen Connor	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 6190

24 March 1951 (1951 -03-24) 33	Tranmere Rovers	2 – 1	Rochdale	Birkenhead
	Rosenthal	Report		Stadium: Prenton Park Attendance: 8328

26 March 1951 (1951 -03-26) 34	Rochdale	4 – 0	Bradford City	Rochdale
	Connor Steen	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 4233

27 March 1951 (1951 -03-27) 35	Bradford City	2 – 1	Rochdale	Bradford
	Williamson Ward	Report	Connor	Stadium: Valley Parade Attendance: 16164

31 March 1951 (1951 -03-31) 36	Rochdale	1 – 1	Southport	Rochdale
	Whitehouse	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 3781

7 April 1951 (1951 -04-07) 37	Rotherham United	3 – 0	Rochdale	Rotherham
	Guest Grainger Williams	Report		Stadium: Millmoor Attendance: 14202

10 April 1951 (1951 -04-10) 38	Rochdale	0 – 0	Halifax Town	Rochdale
		Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 3342

14 April 1951 (1951 -04-14) 39	Rochdale	0 – 0	Mansfield Town	Rochdale
		Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 4000

16 April 1951 (1951 -04-16) 40	Mansfield Town	1 – 0	Rochdale	Mansfield
	Reeve	Report		Stadium: Field Mill Attendance: 11384

17 April 1951 (1951 -04-17) 41	Rochdale	3 – 0	Lincoln City	Rochdale
	Livesey Foulds	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 3533

21 April 1951 (1951 -04-21) 42	Scunthorpe & Lindsey United	3 – 0	Rochdale	Scunthorpe
	Cumner	Report		Stadium: Old Show Ground Attendance: 9229

24 April 1951 (1951 -04-24) 43	Oldham Athletic	2 – 0	Rochdale	Oldham
	Hardwick Gemmell	Report		Stadium: Boundary Park Attendance: 13503

28 April 1951 (1951 -04-28) 44	Rochdale	2 – 0	Wrexham	Rochdale
	Barber Middlebrough	Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 3288

2 May 1951 (1951 -05-02) 45	Wrexham	3 – 1	Rochdale	Wrexham
	Beynon Tunnicliffe Fidler	Report	Whitehouse	Stadium: Racecourse Ground Attendance: 3633

5 May 1951 (1951 -05-05) 46	Rochdale	0 – 0	Darlington	Rochdale
		Report		Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 3448

F.A. Cup[]

25 November 1950 (1950 -11-25) 1	Rochdale	3 – 1	Willington	Rochdale
	Whitehouse (pen.) Middlebrough	Report	Dodds	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 7657

9 December 1950 (1950 -12-09) 2	Ashington	1 – 2	Rochdale	Ashington
	Skeen	Report	Livesey Steen	Stadium: Portland Park Attendance: 13191 Referee: G Black

9 January 1951 (1951 -01-09) 3	Rochdale	2 – 3	Chelsea	Rochdale
	Connor 40' Arthur 86'	Report	Billington 5' Bentley 16', 61'	Stadium: Spotland Stadium Attendance: 17817 Referee: JW Topliss

Lancashire Cup[]

11 October 1950 (1950 -10-11)	Accrington Stanley	2 – 1	Rochdale	Accrington
			Middlebrough	Stadium: Peel Park Attendance: 2000

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References[]

^ Rochdale AFC: The Official History 1907–2001 by Steven Phillipps. ISBN 1874427097
^ http://www.enfa.co.uk/

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[2] Rochdale AFC: The Official History 1907–2001 by Steven Phillipps. ISBN 1874427097

[3] ttp://www.enfa.co.uk/

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