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Amsterdam - June 20, 1937
Central Europe 3  
(Sas 17, 48, Nejedly 75)
Western Europe 1  
(Bakhuys 87)
HT: 1.0.
Att: 60,000
Ref: Jewell (Eng).

 

Highbury/London - Oct. 26, 1938
England 3  
(Hall 20, Lawton 39, Goulden 73)
Europe 0  
HT: 2-0.
Att: 45,000
Ref: Jewell (Eng).

England: Woodley - Sproston, Hapgood - Willingham, Cullis, Copping - Matthews, Hall, Lawton, Goulden, Boyes

Europe: Olivieri (It) - Foni (It) - Kupfer (Ger) - Andreolo (Uru/It), Kitzinger (Ger) - Aston (Fr), Braine (Bel), Piola (It), Zsengeller (Hun), Brustad (Nor). Manager: Pozzo (It).

 

Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland - May 10, 1947
British return to FIFA
Great Britain 6  
(Mannion 22, pen., 33, Steel, 35, Lawton, 37, 82, Own Goal (Parola-Da Rui), 74)
Europe 1  
(Nordahl 24)
HT: 4-1.
Att: 137,000
Ref: Reader (Eng).

Frank Swift, George Hardwick, captain, Stanley Matthews and Tommy Lawton played for Great Britain in the match celebrating the readmission of England, Scotland and Wales to FIFA.

Great Britain:  Swift, England; Hardwick, England, captain; Hughes, Wales; Macaulay, Scotland; Vernon, Northern Ireland; Burgess, Wales; Matthews, England; Mannion, England; Lawton, England; Steel, Scotland; Liddell, Scotland.  Selector:  Walter Winterbottom, England.

Rest of Europe:  Da Rui, France; Peterson, Denmark; Steffen, Switzerland; Carey, Eire; Parola, Italy; Ludl, Czechoslovakia; Lembrechts, Belgium; Gren, Sweden; Nordahl, Sweden; Wilkes, Holland; Praest, Denmark.  Selector:  Rappan, Austria.

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