Another landmark in Leeds’ successful run

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33421, 31 December 1973, Page 16

Another landmark in Leeds’ successful run

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON.

Leeds United achieved a landmark in English soccer history on Saturday when it became the only team this century to go 23 first-division games without defeat.

Leeds snatched a 1-1 draw | away to Birmingham City, getting the equaliser four minutes from the end. Leeds’s single point from the game left it eight points clear at the top of the table after Liverpool, its nearest rival, won, 1-0, away to Chelsea. ENGLISH LEAGUE Division one.—Birmingham 1, Leeds 1; Burnley 1, Wolverhampton 1; Chelsea 0, Liverpool 1; Everton 2. Derby 1; Leicester 2, Arsenal 0; Manchester United 2, Ipswich 0; Newcastle 1, Sheffield United 0: Norwich 1, Manchester Citv 1; Southampton 1, Coventry 1; Stoke 4, Queen’s Park Rangers 1; Tottenham 2, West Ham 0. Division two. —Bolton 4, Portsmouth 0; Cardiff 4. Sunderland 1; Luton 1. Bristol City 0; Middlesbrough 2, Crystal Palace 0; Millwall 2. Blackpool 2; Notts County 0. Carlisle 3; Orient 1, Fulham 0; Oxford 2, Aston Villa 1; Preston 2, Hull 0; Sheffield Wednesday 1, Nottingham 1; West Bromwich 2, Swindon 0.

Division three.—Brighton 1, Plymouth 0; Bristol Rovers 1, Grimsby 1; Chesterfield 2, Bournemouth 1; Hereford 2, Charlton 3; Huddersfield 3, Port Vale 0; Oldham 0. Watford 3; Shrewsbury 2, Cambridge 0; Southend 1, Halifax 2; Southport 0. Wrexham 2; Tranmere 1, Rochdale 1: Walsall 3; Aidershot 2; York 1, Blackburn

Division four.—Bradford City 4, Bury 2; Chester 3, Newport 0; Coldchester 1, Northampton 1; Gillingham 1, Swansea 1; Mansfield 2. Barnsley 2; Reading 1, Hartlepool 1; Rotherham 1, Crewe 1; Scunthorpe 2, Peterborough 1; Stockport 2, Lincoln 2; Torquay 3, Doncaster 0. SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division one.—Aberdeen 0, Motherwell 0; Arbroath 3, St Johnstone 1; Ayr 0, Rangers 1; Celtic 6. Dunfermline 0; Dundee United 6, Dumbarton 0; East Fife 1, Clyde 0; Falkirk 3, Dundee 3; Hearts 0. Morton 2; Partick 1, Hibernian 0. Division two.—Airdrieonians 4, Raith 0; Alloa 2, East Stirling 2; Berwick 1, Albion 0; Clydebank 1, Kilmarnock 2; Cowdenbeath 2, Brechin 1; Hamilton 2, Forfar 1; Mcntrose 2. Stirling Albion 2; Queen of the South 2, Queen’s Park 0; St Mirren 1, Stranraer 2. IRISH LEAGUE

Ards 2, Coleraine 2; Ballymena 0, Glenavon 1; Crusaders 1, Ldnfield 4; Glentoran 4. Distillery 2; Lame 1, Bangor 1; Portadown 3, Cliftonwille 0.