This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society.
Our headline is taken from this day in 1964
Special feature:
Highbury: from start to end with previously unseen pictures of the end of the stadium.
Below are the Anniversaries from November 6.
6 November 1899: Woolwich Arsenal 2 New Brompton 2. FA Cup 3rd qualifying round, 2nd replay. The clubs eventually played each other five times before New Brompton won 1-0 in a match at Gravesend.
6 November 1907 Last game for Charlie Satterthwaite the man who scored Arsenal’s first ever league goal. He made 141 appearances for the club of which 129 were in the league, and scored 48 goals (45 in the league).
6 November 1909: After playing 11, winning 2 drawing 1 and losing 8 Arsenal found themselves bottom of the league. The result on this day in the 12th match of the season was Arsenal 0 Bradford City 1. See also here
6 November 1912: With Arsenal chairman Henry Norris having been elected mayor of Fulham for the fourth time the day before, Arsenal reserves tried out various possible first teamers in a game against Peterborough. The result was a 2-2 draw.
6 November 1937: Grimsby 2 Arsenal 1. It was the début for Leslie Jones who scored the Arsenal goal and was the fifth consecutive league game without a win.
6 November 1954: Bolton 2 Arsenal 2. The fourth game in a run of eight without a win, and the début for Jim Fotheringham. Goring and Lishman scored.
6 November 1964: Stewart Robson born. Arsenal was his first club, and he started playing for the first team in 1981. He later became notorious for his severe criticism of Arsene Wenger on Arsenal TV, from which post he was ultimately removed.
6 November 1965: Arsenal 6 Sheffield U 2. It was the first win in four and came just three weeks after losing 3-5 to Blackpool. Baker, Skirton and Armstrong got two goals each.
6 November 1968: Bob McNab played the first of four games for England. He went on to be part of the double side of 1971 and the Fairs Cup winning team of the previous season.
6 November 1974: John Hollins Testimonial v Chelsea (1-1 draw). As well as his 127 league games for Arsenal he had two stints at Chelsea playing 465 league games for them.
6 November 1980: Lionel Smith died (this is also quoted as 8 November in some sources). After leaving Arsenal he moved to Watford,and then became player-manager at Gravesend & Northfleet where he won the 1957-58 Southern League title. He retired from football in 1960.
6 November 1991: Arsenal lost to Benfica in extra time. It proved to be the club’s last appearance in the European Cup until 1998.
6 November 1997. Ray Daniel died. In 1952-3 he played 41 league matches as Arsenal won the league under Tom Whittaker. However he then left for Sunderland after they offered him payments far in excess of the maximum wage that was allowed. Sadly Ray was tempted and succumbed. He never won a trophy again.
6 November 2002: Only 19,059 turned up for Arsenal v Sunderland. The figure is a reminder of just how quickly Arsenal moved from being a club which could still play to a half empty ground into a club in which every seat would be sold for every game in a 60,000 capacity stadium.
Elsewhere on this day:
In 1814 Adolphe Sax was born. He was a Belgian musical instrument maker who went on to invent the saxophone.
The point of the sax is that unlike other “woodwind” instruments such as the clarinet it works in a logical fashion: press down one more finger and the resultant sound goes down one note in the scale.
Yesterday’s anniversaries:
New name agreed for Arsenal station, but no game in sight.
The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal
September 1917: Arsenal’s form definitely on the up.
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