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1st Division

Anfield | Saturday 16 January 1897 at 14:45 UK local time

Liverpool 1 - 0 Stoke

Half time 1–0

Starting Lineup

Willie Donnelly
Archie Goldie
Tom Wilkie
John McCartney
Robert Neill
Tom Cleghorn
Fred Geary
Jimmy Ross (c)
George Allan
Frank Becton
Harry Bradshaw

Opposition Lineup

Freddie Johnson
Tommy Clare
Peter Durber
David Brodie
Jimmy Grewer
Arthur Rowley
Billy Heames
Alan Maxwell
Jim Hingerty
Billy Maxwell
Joe Schofield

Other details

Manager: Tom Watson
Opposition manager: Bill Rowley
Referee: Furness LW
Attendance: 10,000
Half-time score: 1 - 0
Game number: 151
League game number: 112
Liverpool league position: 2nd
Stoke league position: 15th
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George Allan (1–0)
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