THE K'S ARCHIVES
An ongoing project to record and preserve the history of Kingstonian FC

1933-1934 SEASON

This is a (long term) temporary page in order to provide stats and reports for the 1933-1934 season. There are links to a single Surrey Comet report (as a JPG picture) for each game via the match by match stats below. Eventually it is hoped to provide a full season summary and multiple reports for each game with any other news items of interest but this will be some way into the future.

The Kingstonian Reserve team that matched the First Team in winning their section of the Isthmian League.
Back Standing (L-R): T. Newman (trainer), H.B. Edwards, J. Pitt, E. Brumpton, S.E. Webb, L.P. Blackburne, L.B. Compton (Team Secretary).
Middle (L-R): G. Strutt, I. Phillips, E. Colwell, H. Colwell, G. Key, F.E. Caulder.
Front (L-R): H. A. Mills, A. Needham, T. Smith, M.L. Ringrose, J. Lane.

First Team:
Match by match details (linking to reports)
Player totals- Appearances, scorers etc.
Combined excel spreadsheet- match by match and player totals.
Isthmian League Table
Isthmian League Results Grid- results and dates for all Isthmian matches.
 
Brief summary of the season:

K's had been expecting to build on their Amateur Cup success of the previous season but were to lose Harold Gibson, who turned professional with Portsmouth. The team had an ageing and unsettled look to the forward line as a result, although Doug Whitehead had another astonishing season with 42 goals in 36 games. They were 4th in the Isthmian League at the turn of the year and looking a little off the pace for a title challenge having already lost league games to Wimbledon and Dulwich who were their closest rivals.

They were unable to repeat their previous season's performance in the F.A. Cup when they had taken Luton to a replay, and were soundly beaten 7-1 by Bristol City in the First Round Proper having been exempted until that stage. In part this was down to regular goalkeeper, Ted Brodrick, being injured the week before the big game but K's were also reduced to 9 men when the score was at 2-0 with both Lee and Keene injured. K's had done further work to the ground in the Summer which could allegedly now hold 17,000 after further terracing was added to the Latchmere Lane end of the ground. They had rejected an inducement to switch the tie to Bristol so it was slightly disappointing that the attendance ended up as only being 7,833.

K's had one other fixture against a Football League club that season, playing Arsenal in the London Challenge Cup and facing several of Arsenal's regular first team. Despite being 3-0 down with half an hour left to play, Kingstonian got back to 3-2 and came close to getting an equaliser, earning praise in the process from the legendary Herbert Chapman, the Arsenal manager.

Other major cups went badly with early exits from both the Surrey Senior Cup and London Senior Cup. There was a bad 5-1 defeat at Sutton United in their opening Surrey Senior Cup game, having been beaten a couple of weeks earlier in the second round of the London Senior Cup by Wimbledon.

Wimbledon were also to upset Kingstonian in their Amateur Cup defence and, having drawn the game at Richmond Road 1-1 when K's had the better of the play, they were comfortably beaten 3-0 in a replay that produced a string of injuries to both sides.

The saving grace of these cup defeats was that by early February they were able to focus almost entirely on the league without any distractions and without any fixture congestion. This contrasted to one of their challengers Dulwich who had to play two games in one day, losing the game in which they played their reserves. The other challengers, Wimbledon, also faced a heavy fixture list in their run in, playing six games in nine days. K's had picked up Bill Caesar from Dulwich earlier in the season, having previously had his services in 1931/32 season, and in the run in for their title challenge he was joined by another Dulwich player Charles Ede. They contributed to an unbeaten league run that began at Christmas and continued until the end of the season and was to give Kingstonian their first ever Isthmian League title, just 2 points ahead of second placed Dulwich.

The title was only confirmed in their final game at home to Nunhead on a Tuesday evening with a 4-2 win in front of a surprising low crowd of around 2,500. The Isthmian League was strong on the amateur ethos so there was no trophy and no medals to be handed out to the winners. There was also little in the way of the celebrations that had seen huge crowds assemble at the Guildhall when Kingstonian had won the Amateur Cup the previous season.

K's ended their season with matches in two minor cup finals, losing 4-0 to Guildford City in the Surrey Combination Cup and 2-0 to Walthamstow Avenue in the London Charity Cup. The Surrey Combination Cup became a single game for K's after Wimbledon withdrew from their scheduled Semi Final. K's had also repeated their tour of Jersey and Guernsey but lost 2-1 to Guernsey in a single game for the Guernsey Victory Cup. This left them without a physical trophy of any kind to show for their championship winning season.

The Reserve team gave K's a double by winning the reserve section of the Isthmian League while the 3rd Team finished a credible 5th in the Kingston & District League Premier Division.
 
Full details of the Reserves will be added at a later date.
 

1934-1935 Season
1932-1933 Season

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