The original game ended in a 1–1 draw, the Engineers protesting vainly against both the Newport goal (holding the match up for 9 minutes) and the eligibility of one of the players,[3] A replay also ended in a draw, the Engineers sitting back on an early Groom goal and conceding with 4 minutes remaining.

The club had won a match, but victims Wrockwardine Wood withdrew from the competition, with its results therefore being expunged.

It lost in the Birmingham Senior Cup by a demoralizing 19 goals to nil to Ironbridge, the club stymied by having to play a Shropshire League match on the same day, and having to send a "scratch" side which could only muster ten players.

[14] To make matters worse, the League match was abandoned, scoreless, after 70 minutes because of darkness caused by the late arrival of visitors Wem.

[15] The club finished 6th out of 8 in the Shropshire League, with 4 wins, 3 draws, and 7 defeats,[16] but the costs of so doing had proved crippling.

[22] The club's captain, Arthur Ward, "useful either as forward or half-back", was also a prominent player for Shropshire Wanderers.