1924 Chatham Cup

1924 Chatham Cup
Dates May 17 – September 27, 1924
Championship venue Athletic Park, Wellington
Champions Auckland Harbour Board (1st title)
Runners-up Seacliff
Championship match score 3 – 1 (aet)
← 1923 1925 →
Advertisement in the New Zealand Truth newspaper for the final.

The 1924 Chatham Cup was the second annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.

The competition was run on a regional basis, with the numerous local associations being grouped in with the four major regional associations (Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago) in qualifying, with each of these four regions being represented in semi-finals by one team, followed by northern and southern semi-finals and a national final.[1] Ten teams from the Wellington region took part,[2] and it is known that Seacliff were the only Otago entrants (North Otago, the home of Oamaru Rangers, being counted as a separate region).[3]

The Auckland representative for the competition was not chosen via a knock-out competition. This raised concerns in some quarters that the rules of the competition were not being adhered to.[4][5]

The 1924 final

The final was played in sodden conditions at Wellington. Seacliff took an early lead through W. Simmons, holding on to it until half-time. Harbour Board's Bill Palmer equalised with a header in the second half, and H.M. Margison scored two further goals, one in each half of extra time.[6] The trophy was awarded to the winning team by Wellington Mayor R.A. Wright.[7] The losing semi-finalists contested a Charity Cup during the same weekend at the same venue, the match finishing in a 2-2 draw.[8]

Results

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First Round

May 17, 1924
Hospital (Porirua) 4 – 3 Diamonds (Wellington)
[9]

May 17, 1924
Waterside 2 – 1 Wellington YMCA B
[9]

May 17, 1924
Wellington Institute 5 – 2 Swifts (Wellington)
[9]

May 17, 1924
Wellington YMCA A 2 – 2 (aet) Wellington Marist
[9]

Replay

June 14, 1924
Wellington Marist 2 – 1 Wellington YMCA
Barton 2 [10] McGirr

Second Round

June 28, 1924
Wellington Marist 3 – 2 (aet) Wellington Institute
Pope 2, Burke [11] Reid, Dempster
Basin Reserve, Wellington
Referee: G. Goffin

June 28, 1924
Hospital 2 – 1 Waterside
Greenaway, Gibb [11] Hughes
Porirua
Referee: B. Martin

Third Round

July 19, 1924
Dauber's Motor Depot (Foxton) 5 – 1 Whakatu
[12]

July 19, 1924
Oamaru Rangers 0 – 4 Seacliff
[12]

July 7, 1924
Wellington Marist 3 – 1 Hospital
Cudby, Costello, Barton [13] Ferguson
Basin Reserve, Wellington
Auckland Harbour Board qualified as Auckland champions by winning the regional club league competition.

Quarter-finals

August 2, 1924
Dauber's Motor Depot 2 – 5 Wellington Marist

August 23, 1924
Huntly Pukemiro 0 – 3 Auckland Harbour Board
[14] Jones, Liddel, Innes
Hamilton
Referee: J.M. Downie

Semi-finals ("Island finals")

August 2, 1924
Seacliff 1 – 1 (aet) Sunnyside (Christchurch)
Cooper [15] Purdie

August 31, 1924
Auckland Harbour Board 2 – 0 Wellington Marist
Margison 2 [16]

Replay

September 24, 1924
Seacliff 4 – 2 (aet) Sunnyside (Christchurch)
[17]

Final

Sept. 27, 1924
Auckland Harbour Board 3 – 1 (aet) Seacliff
Palmer, Margison, Heyes[18] [7] Simmons
Athletic Park, Wellington
Referee: A.E. Wells

References

  1. ↑ "Papers Past — NZ Truth — 22 March 1924 — SOCCER SIDELIGHTS". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-03-22. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  2. ↑ "Papers Past — Evening Post — 1 May 1924 — SOCCER CONTROL". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-05-01. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  3. ↑ "Papers Past — Evening Post — 16 May 1924 — ASSOCIATION". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-05-16. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  4. ↑ "Papers Past — Evening Post — 5 September 1924 — ASSOCIATION". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-09-05. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  5. ↑ "Papers Past — Evening Post — 16 August 1924 — SOCCER". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-08-16. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  6. ↑ Hilton, T. (1991) An association with soccer. Auckland: The New Zealand Football Association. ISBN 0-473-01291-X. p. 67
  7. 1 2 Otago Daily Times (Sept. 29, 1924), p.10.
  8. ↑ "Papers Past — NZ Truth — 4 October 1924 — SOCCER". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-10-04. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Papers Past — Evening Post — 19 May 1924 — CHATHAM, CHARITY, AND CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-05-19. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  10. ↑ "Papers Past — NZ Truth — 21 June 1924 — SOCCER". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-06-21. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  11. 1 2 "Papers Past — NZ Truth — 5 July 1924 — SOCCER". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-07-05. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  12. 1 2 "Papers Past — Evening Post — 21 July 1924 — CHATHAM CUP". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-07-21. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  13. ↑ "Papers Past — NZ Truth — 12 July 1924 — SOCCER". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-07-12. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  14. ↑ "Papers Past - Auckland Star - 25 August 1924 - ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL". paperspast.natlib.givt.nz. 1924-08-25. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
  15. ↑ "Papers Past — Evening Post — 9 August 1924 — SOCCER". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-08-09. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  16. ↑ "Papers Past — NZ Truth — 6 September 1924 — CHATHAM CUP". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-09-06. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  17. ↑ "Papers Past — Evening Post — 25 September 1924 — CHATHAM CUP SEMI-FINAL". Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1924-09-25. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
  18. ↑ Other contemporary reports, e.g. , list the scorers as Margison 2, Palmer
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