Squad Photo from the 1927/28 season where Exeter finished 8th in Division Three South and enjoy an FA Cup run to the Fourth Round.



League Position: 8th
Played: 42 Won:17, Drew: 12, Lost: 13 Goals For: 70, Goals Against: 60 Points: 46

FA Cup
First Round: Aberdare Athletic (H), 9-1
Second Round: Ilford (H) 5-3
Third Round: Rotherham United (A), 3-3. Replay, 3-1
Fourth Round: Blackburn Rovers (H), 2-2. Replay, 3-1


First team Results
Third Division South

27/08/1927	Torquay United	A	D	1-1	11625	Vaughan
29/08/1927	Crystal Palace	A	L	0-2	12000	:
03/09/1927	Norwich City	H	D	2-2	8000	Phoenix	McDevitt
07/09/1927	Crystal Palace	H	D	2-2	7000	Pool	Phoenix
10/09/1927	Northampton Town	A	L	0-5	7000	:
17/09/1927	Southend United	H	W	3-2	6000	Dent 2	Purcell
24/09/1927	Brighton and Hove Albion	A	W	2-0	10000	Compton	Dent
01/10/1927	Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic	H	W	4-1	6000	Compton 2	Dent	Purcell
08/10/1927	Brentford	A	D	1-1	9000	Dent
15/10/1927	Luton Town	H	W	3-2	8000	Purcell 2	Dent
22/10/1927	Watford	H	D	3-3	6000	Purcell 2	Compton
29/10/1927	Charlton Athletic	A	D	0-0	10000	:
05/11/1927	Bristol Rovers	H	W	4-1	5500	Dent 4
12/11/1927	Queens Park Rangers	A	W	1-0	5750	Dent
19/11/1927	Swindon Town	H	D	0-0	5500	:
03/12/1927	Coventry City	H	L	0-1	5000	:
17/12/1927	Walsall	H	W	3-0	6000	Vaughan 2	Purcell
24/12/1927	Merthyr Town	A	W	3-0	4000	Compton	Dent 2
26/12/1927	Plymouth Argyle	H	W	2-0	10000	Dent	Purcell
27/12/1927	Plymouth Argyle	A	W	2-1	13000	Compton	Russell (og)
31/12/1927	Torquay United	H	W	5-0	7000	Compton	Dent 2	McDeviit	Vaughan
07/01/1928	Norwich City	A	D	2-2	7000	Dent 2
21/01/1928	Northampton Town	H	D	1-1	5000	Vaughan
04/02/1928	Brighton and Hove Albion	H	L	0-3	5000	:
11/02/1928	Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic	A	L	0-2	6000	:
15/02/1928	Southend United	A	W	2-1	3500	Mason	Gee
18/02/1928	Brentford	H	L	0-1	7000	:
25/02/1928	Luton Town	A	L	1-2	8000	Compton
03/03/1928	Watford	A	L	2-3	8000	Dent	Gee (p)
10/03/1928	Charlton Athletic	H	W	2-1	5000	Vaughan	Purcell
17/03/1928	Bristol Rovers	A	W	2-1	9000	McDevitt	Dent
22/03/1928	Newport County	A	L	0-1	6000	:
24/03/1928	Queens Park Rangers	H	W	4-0	6000	Dent 2	Purcell	Vaughan
28/03/1928	Gillingham	A	D	1-1	5000	Vaughan
31/03/1928	Swindon Town	A	L	0-3	3000	:
06/04/1928	Millwall	A	L	0-2	4000	:
07/04/1928	Gillingham	H	D	2-2	6000	Dent	Vaughan
09/04/1928	Millwall	H	L	2-4	12000	Purcell (p)	Dent
14/04/1928	Coventry City	A	D	0-0	7000	:
21/04/1928	Newport County	H	W	5-1	6000	Dent	Purcell 2	Bastin 2
28/04/1928	Walsall	A	L	1-5	5000	Bastin
05/05/1928	Merthyr Town	H	W	2-0	5000	Compton	Dent

Final Table 

	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Millwall	42	30	5	7	127	50	65
Northampton Town	42	23	9	10	102	64	55
Plymouth Argyle	42	23	7	12	85	54	53
Brighton & Hove Albion	42	19	10	13	81	69	48
Crystal Palace	42	18	12	12	79	72	48
Swindon Town	42	19	9	14	90	69	47
Southend United	42	20	6	16	80	64	46
Exeter City	42	17	12	13	70	60	46
Newport County	42	18	9	15	81	84	45
Queens Park Rangers	42	17	9	16	72	71	43
Charlton Athletic	42	15	13	14	60	70	43
Brentford	42	16	8	18	76	74	40
Luton Town	42	16	7	19	94	87	39
Bournemouth & Boscambe Athletic	42	13	12	17	72	79	38
Watford	42	14	10	18	68	78	38
Gillingham	42	13	11	18	62	81	37
Norwich City	42	10	16	16	66	70	36
Walsall	42	12	9	21	75	101	33
Bristol Rovers	42	14	4	24	67	93	32
Coventry City	42	11	9	22	67	96	31
Merthyr Town	42	9	13	20	53	91	31
Torquay United	42	8	14	20	53	103	30

FA Cup

1927/28			Exeter Score 1st
26/11/1927	Aberdare Athletic	Home	9-1	9378	Dent 4, Vaughan 2, Purcell 2, Compton	R1
10/11/1927	Ilford	Home	5-3	8501	Dent 2, Purcell 2, McDevitt	R2
14/01/1928	Rotherham United	Away	3-3	15500	Vaughan, Mason, Jackson (og)	R3
18/01/1928	Rotherham United	Home	3-1	11805	Vaughan 2, Purcell	R3 Replay
28/01/1928	Blackburn Rovers	Home	2-2 (AET)	17330	Gee (pen), Mason	R4
02/02/1928	Blackburn Rovers	Away	1-3	28348	Compton	R4 Replay

The crowd against Blackburn.




Reserve team 
Enter Clifford Bastin.

"Latterly, all the talk has been of the genius of Clifford Sydney Bastin, the sixteen years old local inside-left, who, after one or two brilliant games in the Reserves, has stepped into the first team, has scored three goals in his three League games, and has proved himself over and over again to be a born footballer. Behind him, at left half-back, there has been Reg "Nobby" Clarke, another ex-"Ladybird," who promises to make his mark in big football. So although the Grecians have not broken any records in the way of League or Cup success, but the Chiefs' season has been nevertheless a remarkable one, and the Reserves have distinguished themselves greatly in both the Southern and Western Leagues. Runners-up in both competitions, they probably would by now be the champions of the Western League but for some cruel luck in their match with Bristol City Reserves at Ashton Gate on April 25th".

Southern League-Western Division
Results

Southern League (West)
07/09/1927	League	Bristol City	Away	1-3	Dent
10/09/1927	League	Barry	Home	4-1	Lievesley	Chambers 2	Selley
14/09/1927	League	Bristol City	Home	1-2	Andrews
24/09/1927	League	Yeovil	Home	4-0	Selley	Jenkins	Lievesley 2
01/10/1927	League	Mid Rhondda	Away	1-1	Andrews
08/10/1927	League	Mid Rhondda	Home	2-1	Selley	Lievesley
22/10/1927	League	Merthyr	Away	0-1	:
05/11/1927	League	Bristol Rovers	Away	5-1	Chambers	Ditchburn	McDade	Mason	Lievesley
12/11/1927	League	Merthyr	Home	2-1	Lievesley	Chambers
19/11/1927	League	Swindon	Away	1-4	Kirk
26/11/1927	League	Torquay	Away	7-4	Andrews 4	Lievesley 2	McDade
03/12/1927	League	Aberdare	Away	2-3	Lievesley	Andrews
10/12/1927	League	Newport	Away	3-3	Lowton	Andrews	Mason
17/12/1927	League	Yeovil	Away	1-3	Clarke
24/12/1927	League	Bath City	Home	6-1	Andrews 2	Bastin 2	Charlton	McDade
26/12/1927	League	Plymouth Argyle	Away	3-4	Kirk	Andrews	Pulen	Og
27/12/1927	League	Plymouth Argyle	Home	6-1	Lowton	Andrews	McDade 2	Warren	Jenkins
28/12/1927	League	Newport	Home	4-2	McDade	Phoenix	Kirk 2
31/12/1927	League	Barry	Away	2-2	Jenkins	McDade
07/01/1928	League	Torquay	Home	3-3	Jenkins	McDade 2
14/01/1928	League	Weymouth	Home	5-0	Parkin 2	Kirk 2	Lowton
04/02/1928	League	Ebbw Vale	Away	3-1	Andrews 2	Parkin
11/02/1928	League	Aberdare	Home	5-3	Parkin	Gumm	Andrews 3
07/03/1928	League	Weymouth	Away	4-2	Andrews 2	McDade 2
17/03/1928	League	Bristol Rovers	Home	2-3	Jenkins	Edwards
24/03/1928	League	Bath City	Away	6-2	Andrews 5	Kirk
31/03/1928	League	Swindon	Home	6-3	Andrews 3	Parkin	Kirk	McDade
06/04/1928	League	Taunton	Home	4-0	Andrews 2	Bastin	McDade
09/04/1928	League	Taunton	Away	2-0	Kirk	McDade
28/04/1928	League	Ebbw Vale	Home	9-1	Andrews	Jenkins 2	Lievesley 2	Selley 3	Compton

Final Table

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GR	Pts
1	Bristol City	30	20	3	7	95	51	1.863	43
2	Exeter City	30	18	4	8	104	56	1.857	40
3	Bristol Rovers	30	16	3	11	80	64	1.25	35
4	Plymouth Argyle	30	16	2	12	88	53	1.66	34
5	Newport County	30	13	8	9	99	70	1.414	34
6	Ebbw Vale	30	15	3	12	67	74	0.905	33
7	Swindon Town	30	13	4	13	80	74	1.081	30
8	Aberdare & Aberaman	30	12	6	12	62	68	0.912	30
9	Yeovil & Peters Utd	30	11	7	12	64	57	1.123	29
10	Torquay United	30	11	6	13	51	67	0.761	28
11	Bath City	30	12	3	15	64	68	0.941	27
12	Taunton Town	30	11	5	14	60	65	0.923	27
13	Weymouth	30	10	6	14	50	83	0.602	26
14	Merthyr Town	30	9	4	17	50	77	0.649	22
15	Barry	30	8	6	16	45	87	0.517	22
16	Mid Rhondda United	30	7	6	17	36	81	0.444	20

Western League
Results 

Western League
27/08/1927	League	Bristol Rovers	Home	3-0	Andrews	Compton	Chambers
31/08/1927	League	Torquay United	Home	1-1	Mason
03/09/1927	League	Bristol Rovers	Away	2-3	Lievesley	Chambers
17/09/1927	League	Plymouth Argyle	Away	1-1	Lievesley
21/09/1927	League	Salisbury	Home	5-2	Lievesley 4	Parkin
29/09/1927	League	Taunton	Away	1-4	Lievesley
05/10/1927	League	Bath City	Home	1-1	Mason
29/10/1927	League	Plymouth Argyle	Home	3-0	Parkin	Chambers	Lievesley
11/01/1928	League	Torquay United	Away	2-1	McDade	Jenkins
21/01/1928	League	Weymouth	Away	1-1	Andrews
16/02/1928	League	Bath City	Away	2-1	Phoenix 2
18/02/1928	League	Salisbury	Away	4-0	Andrews 2	Kirk	Parkin
25/02/1928	League	Taunton	Home	2-1	Lievesley	Andrews
03/03/1928	League	Weymouth	Home	6-0	Goldsworthy 4	Jenkins 2
10/03/1928	League	Yeovil	Away	3-1	Lievesley	Jenkins 2
28/03/1928	League	Yeovil	Home	2-1	Andrews 2
07/04/1928	League	Lovell's Athletic	Away	2-1	Kirk	McDade
14/04/1928	League	Lovell's Athletic	Home	4-0	Vaughan	Goldsworthy 3
18/04/1928	League	Bristol City	Home	5-1	Lievesley 2	Compton 2	Lowton
25/04/1928	League	Bristol City	Away	0-3	:

Final Table 
Western League Division 1
1927/28

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Plymouth A Res	20	13	5	2	76	32	31
Exeter City Res	20	13	4	3	50	24	30
Yeovil & Petters U	20	12	2	6	56	44	26
Bristol City Res	20	10	4	6	71	40	24
Bristol Rovers Res	20	11	2	7	61	39	24
Taunton Town	20	9	5	6	36	33	23
Lovells Athletic	20	7	2	11	40	49	16
Torquay United Res	20	5	6	9	34	52	16
Bath City Res	20	5	3	12	36	54	13
Weymouth	20	3	3	14	16	60	9
Salisbury	20	3	2	15	23	72	8

1920s, 1927/28, Alexander Pool, Arthur Pheonix, Charles Miller, Cliff Bastin, Fred Dent, George Purcell, Harold Andrews, Harold Gee, Harold Kirk, Harry Warren, Jock Ditchburn, Patrick Mcdade, Reg Clarke, Reginald Clarke, Robert Chambers, Robert Pollard, Samuel Mason, Squad Photograph, Stanley Charlton, Thomas Edwards, Thomas Holland, Thomas Jenkins, Thomas Parkin, Thomas Wainwright, Timeline, Wilfred Lievesley, Wilfred Lowton, William Compton, William McDevitt, William Vaughan