Northern Bobwhite Quail

by | Dec 29, 2017 | Quails

How Can We Help?
You are here:
< Back

The 1945 Football League War Cup final was the last final of the Football League War Cup, a cup competition held in England during the Second World War as a replacement for the suspended FA Cup. The match was a play-off between the winners of the North and South competitions, respectively Bolton Wanderers and Chelsea. The match took place on 2 June 1945, and was staged at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's home ground. Bolton won the match 2–1.[1]

Match details

Chelsea1–2Bolton Wanderers
Rooke 34' Hunt 77'
Hamlett 84' (pen.)
Attendance: 38,840
Chelsea
Bolton Wanderers
1 Scotland Ian Black
2 Scotland Ralph Cowan
3 England George Hardwick
4 Scotland Robert Russell
5 Scotland John Harris
6 England Dick Foss
7 England George Wardle
8 England Alex Machin
9 England Ronnie Rooke
10 England Len Goulden
11 England Jimmy Bain
Manager:
Scotland Billy Birrell
1 England Bill Fielding
2 England Dick Threlfall
3 England Harry Hubbick
4 England George Taylor
5 England Lol Hamlett
6 England Daniel Murphy
7 England Thomas Woodward
8 England George Hunt
9 England Nat Lofthouse
10 England Malcolm Barrass
11 Scotland Willie Moir
Manager:
England Walter Rowley

Notes

  1. ^ Foster, Richard (24 April 2020). "How English football responded to the second world war". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

References

  • Glanvill, Rick (2006). Chelsea FC: The Official Biography – The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7553-1466-2.
  • Hockings, Ron. 100 Years of The Blues – A Statistical History of Chelsea FC 1905–2006.
Categories
Table of Contents