Blackpool F.C. season 1897-98

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Blackpool F.C.

Season 1897-98
League	Division Two
Manager	None
League position	11th
Top goalscorer	Jack Cox (12)
Highest home attendance	4,000 (v. Burnley, Newton Heath and Darwen)^[1]
Lowest home attendance	200 (v. Luton Town)^[1]
Previous season	← 1896-97
Next season	1898-99 →

The 1897-98 season was Blackpool F.C.'s second consecutive season in the Football League. They competed in the sixteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing eleventh.

Jack Cox was the club's top scorer, with twelve goals in seventeen appearances.^[2]

On April 23, 1898, in the penultimate game of the season, Blackpool started against Loughborough at Raikes Hall Gardens with only ten men, but went on to win the game 4–0.^[2]

1 Table
2 Player statistics
- 2.1 Appearances
- 2.2 Goals
3 Transfers
- 3.1 In
- 3.2 Out
4 Notes
5 References

[edit] Table

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GA	Pts
1	Burnley^[3]	30	20	8	2	80	24	3.333	48
2	Newcastle United^[3]	30	21	3	6	64	32	2.000	45
3	Manchester City	30	15	9	6	66	36	1.833	39
4	Newton Heath	30	16	6	8	64	35	1.829	38
5	Woolwich Arsenal	30	16	5	9	69	49	1.408	37
6	Small Heath	30	16	4	10	58	50	1.160	36
7	Leicester Fosse	30	13	7	10	46	35	1.314	33
8	Luton Town	30	13	4	13	68	50	1.360	30
9	Gainsborough Trinity	30	12	6	12	50	54	0.926	30
10	Walsall	30	12	5	13	58	58	1.000	29
11	Blackpool	30	10	5	15	49	61	0.803	25
12	Grimsby Town	30	10	4	16	52	62	0.839	24
13	Burton Swifts	30	8	5	17	38	69	0.551	21
14	Lincoln City	30	6	5	19	43	82	0.524	17
15	Darwen	30	6	2	22	31	76	0.408	14
16	Loughborough	30	6	2	22	24	87	0.276	14

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; Pts = Points

[edit] Player statistics

[edit] Appearances

William Douglas – 30^[4]
Jimmy Martin – 29
Henry Parr – 28
John Clarkin – 26
Harry Stirzaker – 25
D. McHardie – 24
Jack Parkinson – 24
Bob Norris – 23
Frank Wilson – 23
Jack Cox – 17
Jack Leadbetter – 17
Bill Keach – 16
Bob Birkett – 14
Alex Stuart – 10
Tommy Bowman – 8
G. Cardwell – 6
Laurence Halsall – 5
John Scarr – 3
J. Banks – 1

Players used: 19

[edit] Goals

Jack Cox – 12
Bob Birkett – 8
Jack Parkinson – 8
Jimmy Martin – 7
Bob Norris – 5
Jack Leadbetter – 3
Harry Stirzaker – 1
Frank Wilson – 1
Laurence Halsall – 1

Total goals scored: 46 (plus three own-goals)

[edit] Transfers

[edit] In

Date	Player	From	Fee
1897	J. Banks	Unknown	Unknown
1897	G. Cardwell	Unknown	Unknown
1897	Jack Cox	South Shore	Unknown
1897	Laurence Halsall	Unknown	Unknown
1897	Bill Keach	Unknown	Unknown
1897	Jack Leadbetter	Unknown	Unknown
1897	D. McHardie	Unknown	Unknown
1897	Frank Wilson	Unknown	Unknown

[edit] Out

The following players left after the final game of the previous season:

Date	Player	To	Fee
1897	Fred Thompson	Unknown	Unknown
1897	Tom Bradshaw	Unknown	Unknown
1897	John Clarke	Unknown	Unknown

[edit] Notes

^ ^a ^b Attendances were approximated by the reporter at the ground.
^ ^a ^b Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887-1992, Breedon Books Sport ISBN 1-873626-07-X
^ ^a ^b Promoted to the expanded First Division
^ Ever-present