spurs friendly match reports from 1900 - 1966
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18.11.1965 |
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15.08.1965 | The Costa Del Sol
tournament threw Spurs up against Standard Liege of Belgium in the final, with Alan Mullery's goal being the only difference between the two teams
in a game that kicked off an hour before midnight !! The goal came after 23 minutes, when Mullery netted to take the giant cup for Tottenham. Spurs lost Frank Saul with a stomach bug and Jimmy Robertson, who injured a rib. Teams : |
14.08.1965 |
The semi-final of the Costa Del Sol
tournament drew Spurs to face Valencia.
Cliff Jones put Tottenham 1-0 up when he took the ball on the edge of his own penalty area, passed to Alan Gilzean in midfield and ran on to meet Gilly's left wing cross at the far post, where he headed the ball into the net in the 43rd minute. Valencia brought the score level in the 85th minute, as Roberto took advantage from the spot after a debatable penalty was awarded. However, with full-time seconds away, Eddie Clayton burst through a bunch of Spanish defenders to drive the ball home and see Spurs through to a 2-1 win against the crack Spanish side. Teams : |
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22.05.1965 |
Tottenham beat Telstar 3-2 in Ijmuiden. Teams : |
18.05.1965 |
Tottenham lost 0-1 to DWS in Amsterdam. Teams : |
27.04.1965 | Strikers Alan Gilzean and
Jimmy Greaves scored the goals that saw RSC Anderlecht beat Spurs 2-4.
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11.11.1964 |
Spurs faced a Scotland XI in memory of
John White, who had died four months previously, sheltering from a storm
on Crews Hill golf course.
Thick fog had prevented the game kicking off on the scheduled date of the night before, but an entertaining game thrilled the big crowd, with John's brother Tommy (a centre forward with Hearts) guesting and hitting the first Spurs goal. Tony Marchi added a second, with David Wilson and Alan Gilzean equalising for the Scottish XI, before the stepped up a gear and in the last quarter of an hour went on a scoring spree to leave the score 6-2 to the opposition, thanks to Neil Martin's brace and further goals from Gilzean and Willie Wallace Teams : |
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08.08.1964 | Spurs lost 3-4 to Feyenoord
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08.06.1963 | Tottenham toured South
Africa after winning the European Cup Winners Cup and met a South
African XI in the Johannesburg Rand Stadium. It was the start of a long relationship with the South African public, who long remembered the trip and the 3-1 Spurs win that night. With the woodwork struck four times in the match by Tottenham, the goals from Eddie Clayton, Bobby Smith and Jimmy Greaves were just reward as the Spurs players were denied time and again by a great performance from keeper Trevor Gething. The goalie so impressed Tottenham, they offered him the chance to play in England, but he opted to stay in his home country. Teams : |
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17.05.1961 |
Spurs beat an Amsterdam Select XI in
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15.05.1961 |
Spurs beat Feyenoord in Rotterdam 2-1. Teams : |
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14.11.1960 |
Crack Russian side Dynamo Tbilisi came to
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16.11.1959 |
Crack Russian team Torpedo Moscow came to
Britain on a tour and met Spurs at a foggy White Hart Lane.
Lev Yashin appeared as a guest in goal for
Torpedo, but he was unable to stop Spurs running out 3-2 winners.
Bobby Smith was industrious and was warned by the local referee about his robust hassling of Yashin, who held the ball for a long time before releasing it and Smith was trying to hurry him up. Spurs were a goal up in five minutes from Dave Mackay, as his shot deflected off Alexander Medakenin to confuse Yashin and in the 13th minute, Bobby Smith almost doubled the lead, but his header dropped into the keeper's arms off the post. EIght minutes later, Smith was rewarded with a goal when he got on the end of Terrry Medwin's header from Mackay's free kick and it was left to the striker to shoot high into the net to make it 2-0. A minute later, Torpedo pulled a goal back thanks to Slava Metreveli's pass providing the opening for Valentin Ivanov to shoot past Bill Brown. Maurice Norman, Mackay and Dave Dunmore all combined to produce a opportunity for John White to finish and make it 3-1 after just 26 minutes. As expected the Moscovites came back into the game in the second half and ten minutes in, Bill Brown and Dave Mackay both did their utmost to keep the goal protected as they stopped the ball on the line and then Peter Baker had to be quick to keep out a Metreveli effort. However, with ten minutes left, Metreveli played in Eyev to score the second Torpedo goal. Teams : |
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04.06.1959 |
The end of the Russian tour came in
Leningrad, where Spurs met the Russian Olympic XI. It was a physical game, which came at the end of a long season and a long trip, but the 1-3 reverse was a true reflection of the game, against a side which was more of a Russian select XI in front of 100,000. Johnny Brooks hit the Spurs goal, but it was not enough to stop a determined Russian team winning out. Teams : |
01.06.1959 |
Tottenham moved onto the warmer city of Kiev to play a match against
Dynamo Kiev in front of a 60,000 crowd.
Spurs had trained in the Kruschev stadium on three mornings approaching the game, but the ground had a dusty and bumpy pitch that made play difficult, but Spurs put their game together and Johnny Brooks finished a move to make it 1-0 after 21 minutes, hooking home a cross from Terry Medwin. However, Oleh Bazilichev got Kiev level, cutting in from the right to fire a shot into the top corner and it was 15 minutes from the end of the game when Tottenham sealed a 2-1 win when Maurice Norman and Peter Baker linked well on the right side of the pitch to provide the ball for Dave Mackay. The midfielder moved it on to Eddie Clayton and his pass put David Dunmore one on one with the Kiev full-back, taking him on and slipping the ball inside for Brooks to slide it past the keeper for his second of the game. Teams : |
27.05.1959 |
Spurs travelled to Russia for a friendly
against Torpedo Moscow and it took only five minutes before Terry Medwin
had given Tottenham the lead. Danny Blanchflower's free-kick found
Medwin and his shot flew in off a Torpedo defender.
The remainder of the first half saw Spurs dominate and they were unlucky to turn around with just the one goal advantage. Johnny Brooks hit a screamer of a shot that the Russian keeper did well to keep out. As Torpedo pressed in the second half, Spurs had to defend strongly and they restricted Hollowbread to just three shots to save, but things hotted up outfield and some skirmishes littered the play. Teams : |
08.12.1958 |
A floodlit friendly saw Tottenham host
our Romanian guests of the Bucharest Select XI and run out 4-2 winners. An 18th minute Cliff Jones goal opened the scoring, followed by Terry Medwin's strike in the 27th minute. When Jones was fouled in the area, Tommy Harmer confidently swept home the penalty to give Spurs a 3-0 lead with 50 minutes having elapsed. However, Constantin powerfully headed past Hollowbread in the Tottenham goal to pull a goal back five minutes later and with 66 minutes on the clock, Eftimie set the same player up for the Romanian's second goal. A goal with 13 minutes left saw Alfie Stokes ensure a 4-2 Tottenham win with a shot from Harmer's cross. Teams : |
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24.04.1958 |
Brazilian side Canto do Rio travelled to
White Hart Lane as the first South American team to play there as part
of their European tour as Rio champions of 1956-57. They were no
match for Spurs, who ran out 4-1 winners with two goals from Eddie
Clayton and others from Danny Blanchflower and Bobby Smith.
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27.03.1958 |
Spurs travelled to Holland to play a
Rotterdam Select XI and won 4-1 at the Sparta Rotterdam stadium 4-1,
thanks to goals from
Terry Medwin, Johnny Brooks,
Bobby Smith and Tommy Harmer. The match was in aid of the city's Children's hospital and coincided with a visit to Rotterdam by the Queen. It was played in pouring rain, but in a good spirit. Terry Medwin had driven home a first half goal to give Spurs the lead, then into the second period, Medwin turned provider, playing a short pass to Johnny Brooks to shoot home. Tommy Harmer scored a rare header - diving in to head like a bullet past the keeper and Bobby Smith scored Tottenham's fourth with a shot from 25 yards out. A strong selection from Sparta, Feyenoord, VVV Venlo and Excelsior struggled as Tottenham's slick passing on a fast pitch left them stretched, but they did pull a goal back towards the end, with Johnny Hills unfortunately diverting the ball past Ted Ditchburn. Teams : |
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05.06.1957 |
Spurs travelled to Canada and met the
Manitoba All Stars in Winnipeg for a friendly match at Alexander Park. Tottenham had an easy 12-0 win, but the players will probably most remember being presented with a buffalo trophy as a memento of their visit. Teams : |
05.06.1957 |
Spurs travelled to Canada and their first
game was against the Essex County All Stars in a friendly played in
Windsor. Bobby Smith hit a hat trick as Spurs ran out 8-1 winners. Teams : |
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19.03.1957 |
In a Olympisch Stadion in Beerschot that
featured a stand designed by ex-Spurs legend Vivian Woodward, a goal 13
minutes from the end of the match by Terry Medwin gave Spurs a narrow
2-1 win. The home side had gone ahead in 58 minutes when Verbruggen's deflected free-kick beat Reynolds in the Spurs goal, but Bobby Smith levelled on the hour, with Medwin's strike being the difference between the sides. Teams : |
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03.12.1956 |
Hungarian side
Red Banner came to White Hart Lane to
play a friendly under floodlights, with Spurs showing their superiority
in winning 7-1. Spurs were without five players through injury and international call-ups, but their play was more effective than the technical football played by the visitors, but without a cutting edge. Terry Medwin scored the opening goal when Duquemin went wide to feed Medwin inside him and he despatched the ball left footed past the keeper. It was 2-0 fifteen minutes later, with George Robb taking the ball around a defender and then the goalkeeper to walk the ball in and eight minutes further into the game, Stoked received a pass from Harmer to score. Duquemin added another two minutes after the third scoring from a left wing cross from close range, converting a left wing cross, but Palatos pulled one goal back ten minutes before the break after a neat passing movement. The introduction of two Red Banner substitutes during the first half had caused a little confusion, with the away team having 12 players on the pitch at one point ! Tottenham's forward movement with their moves outshone the passing game of the Hungarians, with Blanchflower's 25 yard drive in the 52nd minute restoring the four goal margin, with Stokes putting Spurs further ahead fifteen minutes after that with him scoring from Harmer's pass. This left Duquemin to complete his hat-trick in the 70th minute. Teams : |
12.11.1956 | Spurs played host to Hearts
in a return floodlit friendly.
While Hearts scored through Ian Crawford and Johnnie Hamilton, Tottenham won the match with a hat-trick of goals Bobby Smith and one more from Alfie Stokes. Teams : |
31.10.1956 | White Hart Lane
welcomed Hibernian in the Anglo-Scottish floodlit Challenge match series friendly,
with the match ending in a 3-3 draw. Teams : |
15.10.1956 | Spurs travelled North to
Edinburgh to play Heart of Midlothian at Easter Road - the ground of
their rivals Hibernian for a floodlit friendly.
Hearts field a strong side, despite missing Alfie Conn (father of the player of the same name who later signed for Spurs) and won the game 3-2 with goals from Alex Young, Dave Mackay and Johnnie Hamilton. Tottenham's goals were scored by Terry Dyson and Tommy Harmer, who shot home from the penalty spot. Teams : |
26.09.1956 |
Spurs hosted Partick Thistle in a
floodlit friendly, which ended in a 4-1 Spurs win. Teams : Kick off was 19.30 |
17.09.1956 |
Hibernian (A). A slow start to the game at Easter Road saw neither side trouble the keepers, but in the 22nd minute, Turnbull brought a fine save from Ted Ditchburn from a free-kick. It was a free-kick in the 39th minute from Terry Dyson that forced the Hibs keeper to save with Danny Blanchflower on hand to put the ball past him as it fell at his feet. The lead lasted only a short time, as Hibs earned a penalty that was converted, only for Tottenham to again the advantage right on half=time, with Bobby Smith the scorer taking the ball around the goalkeeper before putting the ball into an empty goal. After the break, both sides piled the ball into the goalmouths and the ball managed to avoid going in until a long ball forward got to Smith, who turned to smash home his second of the match via a deflection off a defender. Tottenham were the stronger side in the latter stages, as Smith created an opportunity for Dyson with a good pass to send him through and in the final minute, Tommy Harmer scored to make the finals score 5-1 to Spurs. Teams : |
11.09.1956 |
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15.05.1955 |
Spurs played FC Kinizsi away in a friendly and JOhnny Brooks scored
the only goal in a 1-4 defeat.
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11.05.1955 |
Vienna was the venue for FK Austria's friendly against Spurs, who were
on tour at the end of the season. The Austrian side were in good form and put Spurs to the sword with a 6-2 defeat, with Duquemin netting Tottenham's two goals.
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09.03.1955 | Racing Club de Paris returned to Spurs for another game under
floodlights, with Spurs even more impressive against the French side,
running out 6-0 winners. Johnny Brooks scored twice and Danny Blanchflower (penalty), Tony Marchi, Micky Dulin and Len Duquemin scored Tottenham's goal in a straightforward friendly victory. Teams : |
18.10.1954 | Spurs welcomed
Sportklub Wacker to a floodlit friendly, with the visitors winning 2-1,
with Tottenham's goal scored by Syd McClellan.
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08.05.1954 | Spurs made their way up to
Hamburg from Brunswick, but had to stop a while to capture a cockerel
given to them as a memento of their visit. The game was equally as
eventful. Spurs took a 2-0 lead early in the second half after a placid first period. Les Bennett and Sonny Walters hit the goals, but the home side pulled one back with 20 minutes remaining. With only moments left, the referee awarded an indirect free-kick to Hamburg, but then changed his mind to make it a penalty. The award was converted and the final whistle blown straight after, in what appeared to be a generous decision to allow the game to be drawn. Teams : |
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28.10.1953 | The floodlit friendly with
Racing was followed by two games within a month. The Royal Air Force met the Football Association XI, then Spurs hosted FK Austria, which brought out a large crowd to watch amid a foggy Wednesday night, with the lights cutting through the gloom as Spurs won 3-2. Austria had gone into a 2-0 half-time lead, but Tottenham hit back to win, scoring three goals from Tommy Harmer, Len Duquemin (with a left foot strike) and Sonny Walters heading the winner with all the Tottenham goals coming within three minutes. Teams : |
29.09.1953 | The first floodlit friendly
at White Hart Lane saw French side Racing Club de Paris visit N17, with
the second half of the game televised live on television.
Having tested the floodlight out with an amateur
match a few nights before, Spurs rolled out the Band of the Grenadier
Guards to welcome the crack French side Sporting Club de Paris, with the
match being covered on TV. Teams : The Band of the Grenadier Guards played before
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15.05.1953 | Hearts met Spurs in a Coronation
Charity Fund match at Tynecastle, with Hearts winning 2-0 thanks to
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15.06.1952 | Spurs were on tour in
Canada, but travelled into the United States to meet Manchester United
in New York's Yankee Stadium. Wreaths were laid to the home baseball team's Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig by captains Ron Burgess and Johnny Carey ahead of the game in front of a then record crowd for a football match in New York. United were quickly on the attack and a goal from Jack Rowley gave them the initiative, but Spurs soon imposed themselves on United and Les Bennett equalised with a header within a minute of United's goal and then put Tottenham 2-1 ahead. First Division champions United soon succumbed to a fine display by Spurs, as a goal from Sid McClellan and four from Len Duquemin saw a masterful performance end in a 7-1 win. Teams : |
26.03.1952 |
League Champions Spurs faced the
"Champions of Europe" under the Brussels floodlights in front of a
45,000 crowd. The entertaining game finished 2-2 with Les Bennett and Len Duquemin netting for Tottenham, in what manager Arthur Rowe described as "the finest game he had ever seen." Teams : |
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07.05.1951 | FK Austria
visited Tottenham, as the first club from their country to play at White
Hart Lane in a match that was part of the Festival of Britain. A big crowd gathered, only to see Spurs lose 0-1. Teams : |
06.02.1951 |
Spurs made the short trip across the Channel to face a Combined Liege XI in Antwerp and won 4-1 courtesy of two goals from Peter Murphy and one apiece from Sonny Walters and Sid McClellan. Teams : |
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27.05.1950 | Antwerp was the venue as
Spurs travelled to play Royal Beerschot, in their 50th Anniversary match, but
Len Duquemin's goal was merely a consolation as the Belgian side won 2-1.
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07.05.1946 | Willie Hall's testimonial
against an FA XI showed the strength of sympathy for the forward who had
lost both legs through thrombosis.
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.05.1929 | Tottenham tour of Malta
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.05.1929 | Malta's Floriana gave Spurs
a spirited match in Valetta before losing out 1-2. Ted Harper netted both Tottenham goals in the friendly win. Teams : |
.05.1929 | Ted Harper's successful
penalty was the only difference when Spurs played the British Navy in
Valetta.
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.05.1929 |
The British Army forces based on Malta
produced a team to face Tottenham, but lost out 0-5 to Spurs. Teams : |
12.05.1929 |
Spurs took to the field with Valetta
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11.05.1929 |
Valetta hosted the first of a six game
tour of Malta against Sliema Wanderers and Spurs recorded a 7-1 victory. Ted Harper scored three goals among the seven that hit the Sliema net. Teams : |
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16.05.1928 | Another 3-0
victory rounded off the 100% record on
the tour, with the victims this time a Rotterdam XI. Thompson,
Dimmock and O'Callaghan all hit the net as the tour ended with the
knowledge that Spurs
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13.05.1928 | Our next opponents were the
All Holland XI at Almelo and another win came courtesy of goals from
Dimmock, Thompson and Jimmy Townley.
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09.05.1928 | The Hague was the venue for
the 6-2 win over the Den Haag XI as Jimmy Dimmock scored three goals,
Harry Skitt twice and Andy Thompson the other goal to record their
second win over the side in three days.
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06.05.1928 |
Tottenham faced an Olympic A XI in
Amsterdam in the
first game of their Dutch tour and triumphed 5-2 with goals from Taffy
O'Callaghan (2), Jimmy Dimmock, Arthur Grimsdell and Andy Thompson. Teams : Squad : - Arthur Grimsdell, Cyril Spiers, Matt Forster, Jock Richardson, Darlie Lowdell, Harry Skitt, Andy Thomson, Taffy O'Callaghan, Jimmy Armstrong, Alec Lindsay, Jimmy Dimmock, Bert Smith, Cecil Poynton, Jimmy Townley. |
02.06.1912 |
Tottenham returned to Vienna, where they lost 0-3 to the Austrian
Olympic XI.
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24.05.1912 |
A friendly meeting with Woolwich Arsenal in Vienna ended in a 0-4 defeat.
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20.05.1912 |
Spurs visited Vienna and played Athletic Sports Club, winning 5-2.
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12.05.1912 | Spurs met Hull City in the
Beddeker Cup in Brussels and won 2-0.
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19.06.1909 | The tour finished with defeat at the
hands of our English opponents Everton by 0-4 in Uruguay. On leaving South America, the team won a fancy dress competition on the ship home as Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday, with the parrot used taken back to White Hart Lane as a memento of the trip. He lived happily at the club for 10 years until the day that Arsenal got voted into the First Division in 1919 at the expense of Tottenham Hotspur, when he died. Teams : |
16.06.1909 | Our next opponents were a selection
from the Argentine league, but Spurs came out on top with a 4-1 win.
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13.06.1909 | The second game of Tottenham's
Argentinian tour was against Argentinos and Spurs triumphed by a single
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10.06.1909 |
Spurs visited Montevideo to meet the Urguay League representative side and ran out 8-0 winners. . Teams : |
05.06.1909 | A match
against English rivals Everton was played in an unusual setting in
Tottenham's first overseas match in 1909. Palermo in Argentina was
the location and the area is now within the Buenos Aires conurbation. The game ended 2-2 with honours shared. Teams : |
.02.1908 |
Max Seeburg scored Tottenham's goal against his old club in a 1-1 draw with Chelsea that was the first time the teams had met. Teams : |
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20.05.1907 |
Our London rivals were also in Ostend, Belgium on
tour, so they played each other with Alf Whyman and Walter Bull scoring
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19.05.1907 |
A hat-trick from Max Seeburg,
two goals each from Vivian Woodward and George Payne and a single strike
from Alf Whyman saw Spurs beat Union Saint Gilloise of Belgium beaten
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10.05.1905 |
A 4-1 win over Vienna Athletic Club concluded the Austria leg of
Tottenham's tour of Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Played in Vienna, goals from Tom Morris, two from Vivian Woodward and another scored by Willie Murray saw Spurs head for Hungary in good spirits. Teams : |
07.05.1905 |
Spurs lost 0-2 to Everton in Vienna.
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04.05.1905 |
Tottenham's first ever game outside of the UK saw the side take on
Austrian side Hohe Warte in Vienna. Spurs ran out 6-0 winners with the goals scored by Jimmy McNaught, a hat-trick from Alex Glen and two from Charlie O'Hagan. Teams : |
02.01.1902 | When Spurs
eventually travelled to Scotland for the second leg of the Cup Winners
Cup Challenge, they found Hearts in good form and the home team ran out
3-1 winners, with Tom Morris' goal outdone by those from Charlie
Thomson, Bobby Walker and Tom Lorne.
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02.09.1901 | A
competition to determine the best cup winners in England and Scotland
was proposed and Spurs hosted Heart of Midlothian in the first leg of
the Cup Winners Cup Challenge competition. A 0-0 draw ensued with a 10,000 crowd witnessing the tie. Teams : |
01.01.1902 | Spurs played a friendly at
Goodison Park which Everton won 3-1 and the crowd included two or three
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05.03.1900 |
Spurs won a friendly at White Hart Lane against
Stoke 6-0 with the
goals scored by Tom Pratt (4) and one each from John Cameron and Jack
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