St Mirren

Andy Mitchell's excellent blog on Scottish sporting history is well worth a visit.
I've taken the liberty to link to a 1924 history of St Mirren that he has digitalised. Here it is:
http://www.scottishsporthistory.com/uploads/3/3/6/0/3360867/st_mirren_history_1924.pdf

The Scout- Football Tips...

Lord Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scouts, was a footballer in his youth. He was in the Charterhouse School football XI in 1876, a good goal-keeper, always keeping very cool according to The Carthusian of April of that year. He would have been 19 years old at the time. It is likely that he would have played with some of the Old Carthusians team that won the FA Cup in 1881.
In later life Lord Baden-Powell advocated the positive aspects of playing football whilst also emphasizing his opinion that, as a spectator sport, it was both morally and physically corrupting:
Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.but it is a vicious game when it draws crowds of lads away from playing the game themselves to be merely onlookers at a few paid players.
He also wrote of the unwholesome and hysterical natures of football crowds, painting a most unflattering picture of  young British working class males.

By the 1920's, however, the Scout magazine, which carried Baden- Powell's endorsement on the cover, was offering its young readers football tips from some of the professional stars of the day.
The players mentioned on the cover of the issue shown above are:

Ted Hufton- goalkeeper for West Ham United.

Charlie Buchan- the legendary Sunderland and Arsenal inside forward.

Sam  Chedgzoy- Everton winger.

Jackie Carr- Middlesbrough centre half.

All four men were capped by England during the 1920s. 

North London Derby

Arsenal (in their previous guises as Royal Arsenal and Woolwich Arsenal) did not become a north London team until they moved to Highbury in 1913. Prior to this they were based in Plumstead.
The first meeting of the 2 clubs took place in November 1887. A friendly, played at Tottenham Marshes , it was abandoned after 75 minutes due to failing light.

19.11. 87

Tottenham Hotspur

2

1

Royal Arsenal

Arsenal and Tottenham's development took differing courses. Arsenal joined the Football League in 1893 (the first southern club to do so), whilst Tottenham remained in the Southern League from 1896- 1908.
In the meantime the 2 clubs met each other in the United League, The Southern League and the London League:

					comp
09.11. 96	Woolwich Arsenal	2	1	Tottenham Hotspur	United Lge
25.02. 97	Tottenham Hotspur	2	2	Woolwich Arsenal	United Lge
25.12. 97	Woolwich Arsenal	2	3	Tottenham Hotspur	United Lge
08.04.98	Tottenham Hotspur	0	0	Woolwich Arsenal	United Lge
11.03. 99	Woolwich Arsenal	2	1	Tottenham Hotspur	United Lge
29.04. 99	Tottenham Hotspur	3	2	Woolwich Arsenal	United Lge
17.04. 00	Tottenham Hotspur	3	2	Woolwich Arsenal	Southern Lge
24.04. 00	Woolwich Arsenal	2	1	Tottenham Hotspur	Southern Lge *
16.09. 01	Woolwich Arsenal	0	2	Tottenham Hotspur	London Lge
04.11. 01	Tottenham Hotspur	5	0	Woolwich Arsenal	London Lge
17.11. 02	Woolwich Arsenal	1	2	Tottenham Hotspur	London Lge
01.12. 02	Tottenham Hotspur	1	0	Woolwich Arsenal	London Lge
01.09. 03	Tottenham Hotspur	0	1	Woolwich Arsenal	London Lge
14.11. 03	Woolwich Arsenal	1	1	Tottenham Hotspur	London Lge

*Abandoned after 75 minutes due to persistent bad language. 

During this period there were also meetings in the London Charity Cup:

23.04.02	Woolwich Arsenal	0	0	Tottenham Hotspur	(SF)
29.04.02	Tottenham Hotspur	2	1	Woolwich Arsenal	(SF r)
10.10.04	Woolwich Arsenal	1	3	Tottenham Hotspur	(SF)
09.04.06	Tottenham Hotspur	0	0	Woolwich Arsenal	(SF r)
28.04.06	Woolwich Arsenal	5	0	Tottenham Hotspur
01.11.09	Tottenham Hotspur	3	0	Woolwich Arsenal	*

*London Professional Footballers Charity Fund

William Buckenham is listed as  Woolwich Arsenal's centre forward in the programme, however Gordon Hoare played in what was his last appearance for the club. He made his debut for Glossop the following Saturday .

Tottenham Hotspur and Woolwich Arsenal first met in the Football League on 04.12.1909.
In a First Division match played at Arsenal's Manor Ground a crowd of 25,000 witnessed a 1-0 win for the home side, Walter Lawrence the scorer.
Here are the line-ups:      
Woolwich Arsenal: Hugh McDonald, Duncan McDonald, Joe Shaw, Andy Ducat,  Percy Sands, Roddy MacEachrane, David Greenaway, Robert Stevens, Gordon Hoare, Walter Lawrence, David Neave.

Tottenham Hotspur: John 'Tiny' Joyce, Fred Wilkes, William Harris, Frank Bentley, Danny Steel         Jabez Darnell,  Jack Curtis, Billy Minter, Ivor Brown,  Bobby Steel, Bert Middlemiss.

              

04.12.09	Woolwich Arsenal	1	0	Tottenham Hotspur
16.04. 10	Tottenham Hotspur	1	1	Woolwich Arsenal
03.12.10	Tottenham Hotspur	3	1	Woolwich Arsenal
08.04.11	Woolwich Arsenal	2	0	Tottenham Hotspur
25.12.11	Tottenham Hotspur	5	0	Woolwich Arsenal
26.12.11	Woolwich Arsenal	3	1	Tottenham Hotspur
14.12.12	Woolwich Arsenal	0	3	Tottenham Hotspur
19.04.13	Tottenham Hotspur	1	1	Woolwich Arsenal
15.01.21	Tottenham Hotspur	2	1	Arsenal
22.01.21	Arsenal	3	2	Tottenham Hotspur
15.04.22	Tottenham Hotspur	2	0	Arsenal
22.04.22	Arsenal	1	0	Tottenham Hotspur
23.09.22	Tottenham Hotspur	1	2	Arsenal
30.09.22	Arsenal	0	2	Tottenham Hotspur
17.11.23	Arsenal	1	1	Tottenham Hotspur
24.11.23	Tottenham Hotspur	3	0	Arsenal
25.10.24	Arsenal	1	0	Tottenham Hotspur
28.02.25	Tottenham Hotspur	2	0	Arsenal
29.08.25	Arsenal	0	1	Tottenham Hotspur
02.01.26	Tottenham Hotspur	1	1	Arsenal
18.12.26	Arsenal	2	4	Tottenham Hotspur
07.05.27	Tottenham Hotspur	0	4	Arsenal
02.01.28	Arsenal	1	1	Tottenham Hotspur
07.04.28	Tottenham Hotspur	2	0	Arsenal
16.09.33	Tottenham Hotspur	1	1	Arsenal
31.01.34	Arsenal	1	3	Tottenham Hotspur
20.10.34	Arsenal	5	1	Tottenham Hotspur
06.03.35	Tottenham Hotspur	0	6	Arsenal

Venues- Tottenham – White Hart Lane

Arsenal- Manor Ground Plumsted (up until 1921), Highbury thereafter.

	Wins	Goals
Arsenal	10	33
Tottenham Hotspur	12	43
Draws	6

	(Woolwich) Arsenal		Tottenham Hotspur
Season	League	FA Cup	League	FA Cup
1908-09	Div 1. 6th	R2	Div 2. 2nd P	R3
1909–10	Div 1. 18th	R2	Div 1. 15th	R3
1910–11	Div 1. 10th	R2	Div 1. 15th	R2
1911–12	Div 1. 10th	R1	Div 1. 12th	R1
1912–13	Div 1. 20th R	R2	Div 1. 17th	R2
1913–14	Div 2. 3rd	R1	Div 1. 17th	R2
1914–15	Div 2. 5th	R2	Div 1. 20th R	R2
1919–20	Div 1. 10th	R2	Div 2. 1st P	R4
1920–21	Div 1. 9th	R1	Div 1. 6th	Winners
1921–22	Div 1. 7th	QF	Div 1.2nd	SF
1922–23	Div 1. 11th	R1	Div 1. 12th	R4
1923–24	Div 1. 19th	R2	Div 1. 15th	R1
1924–25	Div 1. 20th	R1	Div 1. 12th	R3
1925–26	Div 1. 2nd	QF	Div 1. 15th	R2
1926–27	Div 1. 11th	Runners Up	Div 1. 13th	R3
1927–28	Div 1. 10th	SF	Div 1. 21st R	R6
1928–29	Div 1. 9th	QF	Div 2. 10th	R3
1929–30	Div 1. 14th	Winners	Div 2. 12th	R3
1930–31	Div 1. 1st	R4	Div 2. 3rd	R4
1931–32	Div 1. 2nd	Runners Up	Div 2. 8th	R3
1932–33	Div 1. 1st	R3	Div 2. 2nd P	R4
1933–34	Div 1. 1st	QF	Div 1. 3rd	R5
1934–35	Div 1. 1st	QF	Div 1. 22nd R	R5
1935–36	Div 1. 6th	Winners	Div 2. 5th	QF
1936–37	Div 1. 3rd	QF	Div 2. 10th	QF

During their time in the Football League Arsenal and Tottenham continued to play each other in other competitions and charity events:

29.04.12	Woolwich Arsenal	3	0	Tottenham Hotspur	Daily Telegraph Titanic Fund (Park Royal)
10.11.13	Tottenham Hotspur	2	1	Woolwich Arsenal	London FA Charity Cup SF (Stamford Bridge)
22.08.14	Tottenham Hotspur	1	5	The Arsenal	War Relief Fund
04.09.15	The Arsenal	2	0	Tottenham Hotspur	London Combination
13.11.15	Tottenham Hotspur	3	3	The Arsenal
04.03.16	Tottenham Hotspur	3	0	The Arsenal
08.04.16	Tottenham Hotspur	3	2	The Arsenal
09.09.16	The Arsenal	1	1	Tottenham Hotspur
02.12.16	Tottenham Hotspur (Highbury)	4	1	The Arsenal
06.04.17	Tottenham Hotspur (Homerton)	0	0	The Arsenal
09.04.17	The Arsenal	2	3	Tottenham Hotspur
22.09.17	Tottenham Hotspur (Highbury)	1	2	The Arsenal
17.11.17	The Arsenal (Homerton)	0	1	Tottenham Hotspur
12.01.18	Tottenham Hotspur (Highbury)	4	1	The Arsenal
09.03.18	The Arsenal	4	1	Tottenham Hotspur
12.10.18	The Arsenal	3	0	Tottenham Hotspur
07.12.18	Tottenham Hotspur (Highbury)	1	0	The Arsenal
01.02.19	The Arsenal	2	3	Tottenham Hotspur
29.03.19	Tottenham Hotspur (Highbury)	0	1	The Arsenal
29.09.19	Arsenal	0	1	Tottenham Hotspur	London Professional Footballers Charity Fund
25.10.20	Tottenham Hotspur	2	0	Arsenal
01.11.20	Tottenham Hotspur	2	1	Arsenal	London Charity Cup
14.11.21	Arsenal	0	0	Tottenham Hotspur	London Charity Cup SF (Stamford Bridge)
21.11. 21	Arsenal	2	1	Tottenham Hotspur	London Charity Cup (r) (Homerton)
23.10. 22	Tottenham Hotspur	2	3	Arsenal	London Charity Cup
04.05. 31	Arsenal	2	1	Tottenham Hotspur	London FA Charity Cup Final (Stamford Bridge)