Derby County 1
Wrexham 0
League (Division Three North)
Derby County |
1 - 0
|
Wrexham |
 |
League |
 |
| Goalscorers | |
| Ray Straw (25) | None. |
| Team Managers | |
| Harry Storer |
Cliff Lloyd |
| Starting Eleven | |
|
1. Terry Webster 2. Geoff Barrowcliffe 3. Roy Martin 4. Albert Mays 5. Martin McDonnell 6. Frank Upton 7. Tommy Powell 8. Jesse Pye 9. Ray Straw 10. Alf Ackerman 11. Dennis Woodhead |
Billy Waters .1 Bill Green .2 Aly McGowan .3 Gwyn Morgans .4 Alan Fox .5 Fred Davis .6 Gren Jones .7 Ron Hewitt .8 Peter Thompson .9 Johnny Anderson .10 David Jones .11 |
| Bench | |
| None. | None. |
| Substitutions | |
| None. | None. |
| Cautions | |
| None. | None. |
| Red Cards | |
| None. | None. |
| Match Officials | |
|
L.J. Hamer (Horwich) (Referee) |
Match Report
Wrexham's first league game under floodlights.
Squad Statistics (as at September 12th, 1956)
| 1956-57 | All Time | All Time | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| League | Cups | League | Cups | All | All | ||||||||||
| Age | Nat |  |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
| Billy Waters (GK) | 24 |
|
8 | - | 0 | - | 37 | - | 3 | - | 40 | - | |||
| Alan Fox | 20 |
|
8 | - | 0 | - | 30 | - | 1 | - | 31 | - | |||
| Aly McGowan | 26 |
|
8 | - | 0 | - | 125 | 1 | 13 | - | 138 | 1 | |||
| Fred Davis | 27 |
|
8 | - | 0 | - | 48 | 1 | 2 | - | 50 | 1 | |||
| Bill Green | 28 |
|
2 | - | 0 | - | 47 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 52 | 3 | |||
| Gwyn Morgans | 24 |
|
5 | 2 | 0 | - | 5 | 2 | 0 | - | 5 | 2 | |||
| Johnny Anderson | 28 |
|
8 | 4 | 0 | - | 8 | 4 | 0 | - | 8 | 4 | |||
| Ron Hewitt | 28 |
|
2 | 1 | 0 | - | 175 | 61 | 23 | 8 | 198 | 69 | |||
| David Jones | 20 |
|
8 | 2 | 0 | - | 8 | 2 | 0 | - | 8 | 2 | |||
| Gren Jones | 23 |
|
7 | - | 0 | - | 41 | 5 | 3 | - | 44 | 5 | |||
| Peter Thompson | 21 |
|
5 | 3 | 0 | - | 10 | 6 | 1 | - | 11 | 6 | |||
League Table & Results (as at September 12th, 1956)
| Other Wrexham matches played on September 12th, 1956: |
|---|
| Cheshire County League | ||
|---|---|---|
| Wrexham Reserves | 4-2 | Rhyl |
| Results of league matches played since last match |
|---|
| 10th September 1956 |
|---|
| Gateshead AFC | 1-1 | Crewe |
| Halifax Town | 3-2 | Barrow |
| Hartlepools United | 5-2 | Southport |
| Oldham | 2-0 | Stockport |
| 12th September 1956 |
|---|
| Accrington S. | 1-0 | Tranmere |
| Bradford City | 4-3 | Mansfield |
| Chester | 3-4 | Chesterfield |
| Derby County | 1-0 | Wrexham |
| Rochdale | 3-0 | Darlington |
| Workington | 4-3 | Hull City |
| Division Three (North) 1956-57 |
|---|
| P | W | D | L | Avg | Pts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hartlepools United | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2.364 | 13 |
| 2. | Accrington S. | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1.769 | 13 |
| 3. | Stockport | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1.889 | 12 |
| 4. | Derby County | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1.636 | 11 |
| 5. | Workington | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1.600 | 11 |
| 6. | Bradford City | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1.250 | 11 |
| 7. | Chesterfield | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1.385 | 10 |
| 8. | Hull City | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1.455 | 9 |
| 9. | Scunthorpe & Lyndsey Utd | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1.222 | 9 |
| 10. | Gateshead AFC | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1.125 | 9 |
| 11. | Mansfield | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1.429 | 8 |
| 12. | Rochdale | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1.333 | 8 |
| 13. | Oldham | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1.067 | 8 |
| 14. | Halifax Town | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0.917 | 8 |
| 15. | WREXHAM | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1.000 | 6 |
| 16. | Barrow | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.786 | 6 |
| 17. | York City | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0.727 | 6 |
| 18. | Darlington | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.636 | 5 |
| 19. | Carlisle United | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.538 | 4 |
| 20. | Bradford PA | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0.467 | 4 |
| 21. | Crewe | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0.250 | 4 |
| 22. | Southport | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0.458 | 3 |
| 23. | Chester | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0.400 | 2 |
| 24. | Tranmere | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0.375 | 2 |