1921–22 season of Aston Villa
Aston Villa 1921–22 football season
Second City Derby Football team season
A one-club man, Billy Walker scored 244 goals in 531 appearances for Villa between 1920 and 1934. He is Aston Villa's all-time top goalscorer.
Aston Villa played the 1921–22 English football season in the Football League First Division . Villa finished fifth below Burnley, and Cardiff City , just above Bolton Wanderers and Newcastle United.
In the first Second City derby in fifteen years, Villa were held to a draw at home [1] and lost the away fixture.[2] In the second match of the season, defender Bert Smith became the first-ever Cardiff player to score in the division with a consolation goal during a 2–1 defeat to Aston Villa .
Billy Walker remains the only player to have scored a hat-trick of penalty kicks in a Football League game, doing so against Bradford City in November 1921.[3] Richard York went on to make 47 appearances in the 1921–22 campaign, as the "Villans" finished fifth in the First Division .[4] There were debuts for Tommy Mort (337), Len Capewell (157),[5] Jock Johnstone (106), George Stephenson (93), Percy Jones (15) , George Harkus (4) and Martin Taylor (1) .[6]
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World Football Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average; 3) Goals scored
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