[1] The club finished the season in third place, six points adrift of Champions Aston Villa,[2] and were defeated in the quarter final of the F A Cup by eventual winners The Wednesday.

This meant that Jack Hillman was the undisputed first choice goalkeeper for the season and would go on to play all bar the final game in which Harry Briggs made his club debut in a 2–1 victory at Stoke.

Parry's long love, hate relationship with the Goodison Park club finally came to an end after his second appearance of the season when he gave away a penalty, which was missed, in a 3–4 defeat at Aston Villa in September.

Everton were strongest in the forward line where Jack Bell, Tom McInnes, Edgar Chadwick and Alf Milward remained regulars but the club's record hat-trick scorer, Alex Latta began to find opportunities limited as he slipped down the pecking order behind Abe Hartley.

The arrival of John Cameron, yet another Scot, from Queens Park, in September[6] further reduced Latta's opportunities and he left before the end of the season for local rivals Liverpool.