A 15ct. gold & enamel Aston Villa League Champions medal season 1909-10, claret & blue enamelling, t...
A 15ct. gold & enamel Aston Villa League Champions medal season 1909-10, claret & blue enamelling, the obverse inscribed ASTON VILLA FOOTBALL CLUB, LEAGUE CHAMPIONS, 1909-10, the reverse inscribed A. CARTLIDGE This medal was awarded to the Aston Villa goalkeeper Arthur Cartlidge for the Football League Division One title winning season of 1909-10, exactly 100 years ago. Villa finished with 53 points, 5 ahead of runners-up Liverpool. Arthur Cartlidge made 52 appearances for Villa between 1908 and 1910 before returning to his home town team Stoke where he had made his professional debut in 1899. The majority of his career, however, was spent at Bristol Rovers where he made 258 senior appearances between 1901 and 1908 and helped 'The Pirates' to a Southern League Championship title in season 1904-05. Arthur Cartlidge was born in Stoke-on-Trent 12th June 1880 and died there also in 1940.