Post by Bushman on Mar 23, 2013 20:16:26 GMT
Southern League 1904-05 Season
QPR finished in 7th place in there sixth season as a professional club on 36pts. Played 14. Won 13. 8 Draws. Lost12. Goals: For 51. Against 46. Top goalscorer Fred Bevan with 20 goals. Joint highest home attendance 16,000 v Reading 4-2. 17 September 1904 and Tottenham 1-2. 5 November 1904.
Club President: Sir Richard Melvill Beachcroft
Chairman Arthur Lythaby & Captain of the 2nd XI
First match played at the Park Royal Agricultural Grounds
Saturday 3 September, 1904
QPR Team: Collins, Archer, Newlands, Bowman, Hitch, Cross. J, Stewart, Ronaldson, Bevan, Blackwood, Singleton.
The Loss of the Park Royal Agriculteral Showgrounds
At Auction, 2000 Lots comprising of: 7,000 sleepers, 50 Iron Tanks, Battens, Floorboards, Scantling and Firewood.
Offered for sale by Messrs. Joshua Baker,Cooke & Standen.
The only building left standing was the Main Stand which overlooked the Show Ring now being used by Queen's Park Rangers as their pitch.
Jess Saxby Club Director.
44 High Rd Kilburn is now a Dental Clinic.
Club Director William Earley. Albert Pearsall became a club Director several years later.
QPR were known as the Coalie Club because of them.
125 Westbourne Park Rd is now a Mexican bar.
Portsmouth Evening News
Saturday, October 8, 1904.
Fratton Park.
Portsmouth 2-1 QPR
Goal scorer: Ronaldson
Att: 12,000
Southern Football League Dinner
QPR Chairman Arthur Lythaby in the second row from the left and sitting eighth from the left.