Dixie Dean's 60 league goals: A missed sitter which hid start of legend
Apr 29 2008
Dixie's Sixty: Part One - The First Dozen
by David Prentice, Liverpool Echo
IT'S the most celebrated season of individual goalscoring in football history, yet it's never been analysed in close-up detail.
Eighty years ago this week, William Ralph Dean set a goalscoring record which is likely to stand for all time. On May 5, 1928, Everton’s 21-year-old centre-forward scored a hat-trick to reach the fabled total of 60 league goals in a single season.
It eclipsed the 59 goal tally George Camsell had scored in the Second Division the year before, and set a record which is unlikely to ever be broken.
Bank Holiday Monday marks the 80th anniversary of Dixie Dean’s 60-goal season. And to commemorate the occasion we’ve raided the Echo archives to produce a new series detailing every single one of those precious 60 goals.
We look at the match reports of the games, reveal who was Dean’s chief supplier and highlight what people were saying about him at the time. All this week we pay tribute to Dixie’s 60 . . . dozen by dozen.
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