[1] Ernest Bellhouse played association football for the famous Derbyshire school Repton from 1887.
J Smith had become the regular centre-half but he missed/was unavailable for the Boxing Day match against Bolton Wanderers.
This gave Bellhouse his opportunity and he took the centre-half position, aged 17 years 171 days and he had to face Wolves centre-forward, John Brodie who had scored 10 goals in 12 games.
On a windy and rainy day Derby County dominated the first-half against what was described as a "poor Wolves team".
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