FOOTBALL IN BRITAIN

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 12

FOOTBALL IN BRITAIN

ASSOCIATION RESULTS [BY CABLE —PBEBB ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 19. Association football results to-day we’re: — '■ First Division: Arsenal 4 : Chelsea 1. Bolton Wanderers 2 Charlton Athletic 1. Brentford 2 Stoke City 1. Derby County 0 Middlesbrough 2. Everton 3 Grimsby Town 0. Huddersfield Town 4 Liverpool 0. Manchester United 2 West Bromwich Albion 2. Preston North End 1 Portsmouth 1.. Sheffield Wednesday 5 Manchester, Gity .1. Sunderland 2 Leeds United-. 1. Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 Birmingham 1. Second Division: Aston Villa 3 Norwich City 0. Bradford City v. Newcastle United. Scores omitted. Burnley 1 Sheffield United 0. Chesterfield 1 West Ham United 1. Coventry City 0 Blackburn Rovers 1. Doncaster Rovers 0 Blackpool 4. Fulham 3 Tottenham Hotspur 3. Nottingham ’ Forest 0, Leicester City 3. Plymouth Argyle 3 Bury 0. Southampton 1 Barnsley 3. Swansea Town 3 Bradford 0. Third Division —Southern Section: Aidershot 2 Crystal Palace 2. Bournemouth 3 Torquay United 3. Brighton and Hove 2 Notts County 2. Bristol Rovers 1 Queen’s Park Rangers 1. Gillingham 0 Cardiff City 0. Millwall 0 Reading 2. Newport County 2 Luton TowniL Northampton Tdwn 5 Bristol City 1. Southend United 3 Walsall 0. Swindon Town 3 Exeter City 1. Watford 2 CfLpton Orient 1; Northern Section: Accrington Stanley 2, Carlisle United 1. Darlington (J Mansfield Town 0. Gateshead 0 Halifax Town 2. Hull City 5 Tranmere Rovers 2. Lincoln City 3 Hartlepools United 0. New Brighton 3 Southport 1. Oldham AthleticJZ York City 2. Port Vale 3 Barrow 2. Rotherham United 1 Rochdale 1. Stockport County 4 Chester 0. Wrexham 5 Crewe Alexandra 0. First Division: Aberdeen,s St. Mirren 4. Albion Rovers 0 Third Lanark 4. Clyde 1 Motherwell 2. Hamilton Academicals 3 Partick Thistle 2. Hearts 4 Arbroath 1. Kilmarnock 3 Dunfermline Athletic 3. Queen of South 1 Celtic 0. Queen’s Park 2, Hibernians 0. Rangers 4 Falkirk 0. St. Johnstone 3 Dundee 3.

Second Division: Cowdenbeath 2, Edinburgh City 2. Dumbarton 2 Airdrieonians 3. Dundee United 1 Ayr United 2. East Fife 7 Brechin City 0. East Stirling 2 Alloa 2.’Leith Athletic 2 Forfar Athletic 0. Montrose 1 St. Bernard’s 3. Morton 6 King's Park 0. Stenhousemuir 2 Raith 7.

' RUGBY UNION Harlequins 11 Cardiff 14. Richmond 18 Blackheath 3. Rosslyn Park .24 Old Alleynians 3. Aberavon 3 Swansea 3. Rath 10 Devonport Services 3. Bedford 8 Leicester 3. •• Birkenhead Park 12 London Scottish 0. Bridgend 5 Neith 3. Coventry 26 Sale 5. Gloucester 8 Newport 22. Liverpoor 17 Guy’s Hospital 3. Llanelly 14 Pontypool 3. Northampton 9 Waterloo 5. Portsmouth Services 6 Bristol 3. Edinburgh Academicals 0 Glasgow Academicals 3. Watsonians 43 West Scotland 0. Trial matches resulted: Probables 12, defeated Possibles 11, at Bristol. Scotland defeated the Rest, at Galashiels, by 37 points to 15. NORTHERN UNION Barrow 18 Widnes 5. Bradford Northern 6 Wakefield Trinity 3. Brantley .0 Castleford 16. -Broughton'Rangers 5 Wigan 42. Dewsbury 8 Streatham and Mitcham 15. Featherstone 3 Hull Kingston. Rovers 11. Halifax 0 Warrington 26. Hull 17 Keighley 5. Leeds 9 Huddersfield 6/’' Liverpool Stanley 15 Oldham 9. Newcastle 8 St. Helen’s 15. Rochdale Hornets 0 Salford 10.' St. Helen’s -Rees' 15 Leigh 8. Swinton 19 Hunslet 7; York'27 Batley 6. ' . .

TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND

LONDON, December 19. The Football Association will announce its team of amateurs for the tour of New Zealand and Australia on January 6. The team sails on April 17.