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1914–15 Aston Villa F.C. season

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Aston Villa

1914–15 season

Chairman

Manager

Home colours

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1915–16 →

The magazine Punch was critical of the decision to allow competitive football to continue after the outbreak of war. Mr Punch is depicted saying to the footballer "No doubt you can make money in this field, my friend, but there's only one field today where you can get honour".

"Happy" Harry Hampton

The 1914–15 English football season was the 27th season in the Football League for Aston Villa.

In September, Villa lost the Birmingham Charity Cup 2-3 to West Brom.^[1] In October Villa beat Newcastle. The teams had met 33 times in the league with 13 wins each and 7 draws.^[2]

Frank Moss joined First Division club Villa for a £250 fee in February 1914 and made two appearances during the following season,^[3] but he had to wait until after the First World War before he could resume his career.^[3] During the war, Moss guested for Bellis and Morcom, Aston Park Rangers, Smethwick Carriage Works and Bradford City.^[4] Other debuts included Jimmy Stephenson (31), Howard Humphries (20), George Hampton, and Harry Nash (12).^[5]

"The Wellington Whirlwind," played as a centre forward for Aston Villa from 1904 to 1920.^[3] Richard York had started his career with Handsworth Royal, Birchfield Rangers and the Royal Air Force, In March 1915 he joined Aston Villa as an amateur, signing professional forms in August 1919.^[6]

Table[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts	Relegation
1	Everton (C)	38	19	8	11	76	47	1.617	46
2	Oldham Athletic	38	17	11	10	70	56	1.250	45
3	Blackburn Rovers	38	18	7	13	83	61	1.361	43
4	Burnley	38	18	7	13	61	47	1.298	43
5	Manchester City	38	15	13	10	49	39	1.256	43
6	Sheffield United	38	15	13	10	49	41	1.195	43
7	The Wednesday	38	15	13	10	61	54	1.130	43
8	Sunderland	38	18	5	15	81	72	1.125	41
9	Bradford Park Avenue	38	17	7	14	69	65	1.062	41
10	West Bromwich Albion	38	15	10	13	49	43	1.140	40
11	Bradford City	38	13	14	11	55	49	1.122	40
12	Middlesbrough	38	13	12	13	62	74	0.838	38
13	Liverpool	38	14	9	15	65	75	0.867	37
14	Aston Villa	38	13	11	14	62	72	0.861	37
15	Newcastle United	38	11	10	17	46	48	0.958	32
16	Notts County	38	9	13	16	41	57	0.719	31
17	Bolton Wanderers	38	11	8	19	68	84	0.810	30
18	Manchester United	38	9	12	17	46	62	0.742	30
19	Chelsea	38	8	13	17	51	65	0.785	29
20	Tottenham Hotspur (R)	38	8	12	18	57	90	0.633	28	Relegation to the Second Division

Source: World Football
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Home \ Away	AST	BLB	BOL	BRA	BPA	BUR	CHE	EVE	LIV	MCI	MUN	MID	NEW	NTC	OLD	SHU	SUN	TOT	WED	WBA
Aston Villa		2–1	1–7	0–0	1–2	3–3	2–1	1–5	6–2	4–1	3–3	5–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–3	3–1	0–0	2–1
Blackburn Rovers	1–2
Bolton Wanderers	2–2
Bradford City	3–0
Bradford Park Avenue	2–2
Burnley	2–1
Chelsea	3–1
Everton	0–0
Liverpool	3–6
Manchester City	1–0
Manchester United	1–0
Middlesbrough	1–1
Newcastle United	3–0
Notts County	1–1
Oldham Athletic	3–3
Sheffield United	3–0
Sunderland	4–0
Tottenham Hotspur	0–2
The Wednesday	5–2
West Bromwich Albion	2–0