Everton F.C. season 1888-89

Infobox Football club season
club = Everton
season = 1888-89
manager = W. E. Barclay
league = The Football League
league result = 8th
league topscorer = flagicon|England Edgar Chadwick (6)
highest attendance = 15,000 vs Preston (19 January 1889)
lowest attendance = 2,079 vs West Brom (23 February 1889)

Regular First team

Everton fielded by far the most unsettled side of all the twelve original Football League members, using thirty-five players in their twenty-two game campaign. Indeed the club have never fielded more players in any season since, despite having played as many as twenty league games more in over fifty subsequent seasons. So inconsistant was their team selection that at no time did the above combination actually take the field. Not surprisingly Everton's best result of the season, a 6-2 victory over Derby County on October 20th 1888 was achieved with ten of the above players on the field. Robert Watson missed that game while his deputy, Alex McKinnon scored the only hat-trick obtained by an Everton player all season. This was the only game in which ten of the first eleven featured.

Other players used

Jack Angus (5 appearances at outside left}, William Briscoe (3 apps - inside left), William Brown (6 apps - outside left), Albert Chadwick (2 apps - left back), Coyne (2 apps - inside right), George Davie (2 apps - centre forward), Alec Dick (9 apps - righ back), George Fleming (4 apps - outside right), Mike Higgins (1 app - centre half), Charles Joliffe (4 apps - goalkeeper), Robert Jones (1 app - centre back), Bob Kelso (1 app - centre back), J Keys (1 app - centre forward), Wiliam Lewis (3 apps - centre forward), Alex McKinnon (6 apps - outside right), Alf Milward (6 apps - centre forward), R Morris (1 app - centre forward), Henry Parkinson (1 app - centre half), H Pollock (1 app - centre back), Roberts (1 app - centre back), George Stephenson (1 app - centre back), Harry Warmby (1 app - centre back), David Waugh (7 apps - inside right), Walter Wilson (1 app - left back}
*NB position listed is that filled most commonly by the player during this season and may not always have been the role played.

League

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* http://www.evertonfc.com/stats/?mode=players&era_id=1&season_id=2&seasons=2
* http://www.allfootballers.com