The Story of the Wolves
– Part 30
THIS cartoon depicts the events at Molineux in the 192526 season.
It shows that in their second season back in the second tier, Wolves managed an improvement of three points and two places on 1924-25.
Left
Nonetheless Albert Hoskins, who had taken over from George Jobey in 1924, left before the end of the season (in March 1926) to be replaced by Fred Scotchbrook. Hoskins left to manage Gillingham.
Scotchbrook had previously been manager of Stockport
County and assistant secretary of Bolton Wanderers. Despite big expenditure on ground improvements he was afforded little money for new players though. He did recruit three men of note: Wilf Chadwick,
Reg Weaver and Dicky Rhodes, but with Wolves hovering at the wrong end of the table and ultimately finishing fifteenth, the club dispensed of his services. He had famously made a scene about the lack of investment in the playing staff at the club’s AGM in June 1927.
Previously mentioned in Part 28, Tom Phillipson is pictured in his breakthrough campaign, when he became the first Wolves player to score 30 goals in a season in 1925-26 (36 in the league and 37 in total). He scored 111 goals (including 7 hat-tricks) in 159 games for Wolves between 1923 and 1928, when he joined Sheffield
United.
So Wolves needed their fifth manager in the 1920s and the next man in was Major Frank
Buckley, a 43 year-old from Manchester who had played for Aston Villa, Brighton, both of his home town clubs, Birmingham, Derby County and Bradford City.
He had also served with the Middlesex Regiment in the First World War. But more of him in Part 32.