The 1929 Season we finished 2nd in the Top Tier

[davieG]

This was our highest ever finish before 2016

 

Club Historian John Hutchinson revisits the 1928/29 season, when Leicester City finished runners-up in the old First Division, one point behind The Wednesday (now Shefield Wednesday).
Until we lifted the Premier League title 10 years ago, the closest that we’d come to winning the top-flight trophy was 87 years earlier. That season, we were runners-up in the old First Division, failing by one point to become champions of England.
The 1928/29 football season was the 10th season after Leicester Fosse had been reborn as Leicester City. Four years earlier, in 1924/25, the recently renamed club had won the old Second Division title for the first time. Adapting to its new status and anticipating larger crowds, the Filbert Street ground was developed to hold 42,000 fans. The Main Stand, which had been built in 1921, was extended and a new Double Decker Stand was erected in 1927 on the south side of the venue.
In the first three seasons in the top-flight, we finished 17th, seventh and third. The side already contained the likes of the Scotland international Johnny Duncan, prolific goalscorer Arthur Chandler, speedy winger and future England international Hugh Adcock, classy full-back Adam Black and the ever-dependable centre-half George Carr. It was further strengthened by new signings. These were future Manager, the inside-forward Arthur Lochhead, goalkeepers Kenny Campbell and Jim McLaren, and future England internationals Sid Bishop, Ernie Hine and Len Barry.
This meant, that by 1927/28 and 1928/29, when we made two serious attempts at becoming champions, the Manager Willie Orr, building on the foundations laid by his predecessor Peter Hodge, had assembled the most formidable side in the Club’s history. Fans flocked to see the team. In February 1928, a record Filbert Street crowd of 47,298, with another 5,000 locked outside, watched our FA Cup Fifth Round tie defeat against Spurs.

 

More here - 

https://www.lcfc.com/media-article/remembering-the-old-first-division-title-bid-of-1929?fbclid=IwY2xjawSTzGJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe3TlaAD47V_Kz3oMkysen-_E1mzQWJBl-FCv-YshU6z4VNVNJ3y1pTzn0kj0_aem_Xs34IUIrpi6_SYG5J6Dw3w

[DoveValleyFox]

Limbs in pen 2 when we scored the 10th v Pompey 

Edited 1 hour ago by DoveValleyFox
Typo

[1972 Fox]

19 minutes ago, davieG said:

This was our highest ever finish before 2016

 

Club Historian John Hutchinson revisits the 1928/29 season, when Leicester City finished runners-up in the old First Division, one point behind The Wednesday (now Shefield Wednesday).
Until we lifted the Premier League title 10 years ago, the closest that we’d come to winning the top-flight trophy was 87 years earlier. That season, we were runners-up in the old First Division, failing by one point to become champions of England.
The 1928/29 football season was the 10th season after Leicester Fosse had been reborn as Leicester City. Four years earlier, in 1924/25, the recently renamed club had won the old Second Division title for the first time. Adapting to its new status and anticipating larger crowds, the Filbert Street ground was developed to hold 42,000 fans. The Main Stand, which had been built in 1921, was extended and a new Double Decker Stand was erected in 1927 on the south side of the venue.
In the first three seasons in the top-flight, we finished 17th, seventh and third. The side already contained the likes of the Scotland international Johnny Duncan, prolific goalscorer Arthur Chandler, speedy winger and future England international Hugh Adcock, classy full-back Adam Black and the ever-dependable centre-half George Carr. It was further strengthened by new signings. These were future Manager, the inside-forward Arthur Lochhead, goalkeepers Kenny Campbell and Jim McLaren, and future England internationals Sid Bishop, Ernie Hine and Len Barry.
This meant, that by 1927/28 and 1928/29, when we made two serious attempts at becoming champions, the Manager Willie Orr, building on the foundations laid by his predecessor Peter Hodge, had assembled the most formidable side in the Club’s history. Fans flocked to see the team. In February 1928, a record Filbert Street crowd of 47,298, with another 5,000 locked outside, watched our FA Cup Fifth Round tie defeat against Spurs.

 

More here - 

https://www.lcfc.com/media-article/remembering-the-old-first-division-title-bid-of-1929?fbclid=IwY2xjawSTzGJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe3TlaAD47V_Kz3oMkysen-_E1mzQWJBl-FCv-YshU6z4VNVNJ3y1pTzn0kj0_aem_Xs34IUIrpi6_SYG5J6Dw3w

We beat Portsmouth with a club record 10-0 victory at Filbert Street, but then lost 1-0 to them in the return fixture on the last day of the season, costing us the title by one point. The ever obliging Leicester City!  

 

Edit: It wasn't quite the last game of the season, but still.....

 

Edited 1 hour ago by 1972 Fox

[Foxdiamond]

3rd in 1927-28 too

[Spudulike]

1 hour ago, DoveValleyFox said:

Limbs in pen 2 when we scored the 10th v Pompey 

Didn't have any pens then. Just the Kop.

[spacemunky]

We finished 5th in the 2nd division that season. 6 spots above Forest