Programme of the Week number 16 – Hull City v Derby County 1923/24
Relegation from the First Division in 1921 had been followed by two successive mid-table finishes for the Rams. The previous season had seen attendances begin to drop below 10,000 so the summer signing of inside-forward Jackie Whitehouse from Birmingham, who had won a Second Division medal there 3 years earlier, was intended to improve the club’s goalscoring record which had averaged barely a goal a game in the previous season. It certainly achieved that, however Whitehouse would, ironically, be the…