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1889–90 Small Heath F.C. Season
The 1889–90 season was the ninth season of competitive association football played by Small Heath F.C., an English football club based in the Small Heath, Birmingham, Small Heath district of Birmingham. They competed in the 1889–90 Football Alliance, inaugural season of the Football Alliance. They finished in tenth position in the twelve-team league with six wins, five draws and eleven defeats, which gave them seventeen points. The team scored 44 goals in Alliance competition but conceded 67. Small Heath entered the 1889–90 FA Cup at the second qualifying round stage. They progressed through three qualifying rounds and one round proper, eventually losing in the second round proper (last 16) to Football League club Wolverhampton Wanderers. In local cup competitions, they were eliminated by West Bromwich Albion in the second round of the Birmingham Senior Cup, Birmingham Cup, and drew with Warwick County F.C., Warwick County in the final of the Warwickshire Cup. Small Heath a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Jones (football Manager)
Alfred Jones (floruit, fl. 1885–1915) was Birmingham City F.C., Small Heath's first secretary-manager. Appointed in 1892, the year of their admission to the Football League, he oversaw the club winning the inaugural Football League Second Division championship, promotion to the Football League First Division, First Division the following year, and two further promotions before his retirement in 1908. Jones worked as a manufacturer of weighing scale, scales. He began acting as unpaid secretary for Small Heath Alliance F.C. in 1885, the year they turned professional. That season they reached the semi-final of the FA Cup, which brought money into the club and broadened popular awareness of it. He supervised their entry into organised league football in the Football Alliance which started in 1889, and their subsequent invitation to join the newly formed Football League Second Division, Second Division of the Football League. It was at this point that Jones became the club's first paid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
