Historical Look back – 1898-99 Season - Jarrow FC

Historical Look back – 1898-99 Season

 

We start our Historical look back series with a season to remember as we delve into one of the most exciting years in Jarrow history.

In 1899 Jarrow were plying their trade In the Northern Alliance league with the likes of South Shields and Academy sides from both Newcastle United & Sunderland both whom had main teams in the English First Division (the Premier League of the day).

It was Jarrow’s fifth consecutive year in the Northern Alliance and they were aiming to get their highest ever league position having finished runners up to Newcastle United A the season before in 1898. The winning margin for Newcastle that year was by 10 clear points so Jarrow knew they had tighten up and turn the 6 defeats they had suffered into wins or draws if they stood a chance of lifting the trophy.

Remarkably Jarrow managed to match Newcastle’s goal tally from the previous season scoring 73 goals and only conceding one more than the current champions with 24 goals conceded. Jarrow won the league by 4 points having converted 3 of those defeats into victories.  With only two points for a win their tally of 42 was enough to win them there one and only Northern Alliance league win.

The great achievement of winning the league was overshadowed however by their involvement in the FA Cup.

Jarrow progressed through the preliminary round by beating local rivals Hebburn after a 0-0 draw saw the Jarrow side win the replay 2-1.

The reward for beating their local was a trip to Merseyside giants Everton and a crowd of 3000 saw the Toffees prevail against a gallant Jarrow who managed to score through Mcdonald but it wasn’t enough as Everton won 3-1. Everton finished 4th in Division 1 that season so it was great achievement and experience to play at Goodison park.

The following is the final league table taken from the nonleaguematter.co.uk website and underneath that is the scorecard from the FA cup game from evertonresults.com.


 1. JARROW                            26   19    4    3    73    24   42

  2. NEWCASTLE UNITED ‘A’ (-2)         26   18    4    4    62    32   38

  3. HEBBURN ARGYLE                    26   15    5    6    62    29   35

  4. WILLINGTON ATHLETIC               26   15    4    7    58    36   34

  5. SOUTH SHIELDS                     26   13    5    8    60    37   31

  6. SUNDERLAND ‘A’ (-2)               25   11    8    6    74    29   30

  7. STANLEY                           25   10    6    9    50    41   26

  8. WALLSEND PARK VILLA               26    9    5   12    59    60   23

  9. GATESHEAD N.E.R.                  25    9    3   13    36    56   21

 10. SHANKHOUSE                        24    8    3   13    32    65   19

 11. BIRTLEY                           24    7    4   13    40    60   18

 12. BLYTH                             20    5    5   10    31    50   15

 13. SUNDERLAND NOMADS                 23    2    5   16    22    63    9

 14. ST. PETER’S ALBION                26    1    4   21    19   100    6

 


 

 

 

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