The 1913–14 British Home Championship was the last
British Home Championship
The British Home Championship
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played before the
First World War. The competition was played between January and April 1914 and won by
Ireland with a team that included
Patrick O’Connell,
Billy Gillespie,
Val Harris,
Louis Bookman
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,
Samuel Young and
Bill Lacey.
1913–14 was the first time Ireland won the competition outright. The Irish had been the tournament's poorest performers over the years, but the previous year had demonstrated potential in beating England for the first time, in a 2–1 win at
Windsor Park. Ireland began the 1914 tournament beating Wales 2–1 a in
Wrexham on 19 January and then demolished England in England for the first time, winning 3–0 at
Ayresome Park
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in
Middlesbrough. Ireland clinched the title on 16 March, following a 1–1 draw with
Scotland at
Windsor Park, while England's away victory over Wales did not salvage their poor campaign as Scotland would eventually finish as runners up, beating England 3–1 at
Hampden Park
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. It would be six years before the championship was again contested, and it would be with substantially different teams and in a different, increasingly global era of
football
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.
The third-place finish by England represented that nation's lowest ever final position in the competition up to this point.
Table
Results
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Winning squad
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References
British Home Championship 1914 at Rsssf*
External links
Ireland-Champions in 1914
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1914 in British sport
1914
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1913–14 in Scottish football
1913–14 in English football
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Brit
Brit, Brits or BRIT may refer to:
People Nicknames
* British people, people of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, its Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies, and their descendants
* Brit Hume (born 1943), American TV journalist
* B ...
Ireland national football team (1882–1950)