8.1.14

Clem Stephenson




Aston Villa
Season
Football League
FA Cup
1911–12
6th
R2
1912–13
2nd
Winners
1913–14
2nd
Semi-Final
1914–15
14th
R2



1919–20
9th
Winners





Huddersfield Town
Season
Football League
FA Cup
1920–21
17th
R3
1921–22
14th
Winners
1922–23
3rd
R3
1923–24
Champions
R3
1924–25
Champions
R1
1925–26
Champions
R4
1926–27
2nd
R3
1927–28
2nd
Runners Up
1928–29
16th
Semi-Final
1929–30
10th
Runners Up

I want to thank you personally for your play, your wholehearted efforts both on and off the field. I have never had such confidence in any captain of a team I have been associated with.
Herbert Chapman, writing to Stephenson in 1924.

Clem Stephenson had so impressed  during his wartime guest appearances for  Leeds City that when Chapman began assembling his Huddersfield Town side he paid £4,000 for the inside forward, who played a similar role to that which Alex James later performed for Chapman's Arsenal

Stephenson was later Huddersfield Town's longest serving manager (1929–42), guiding them to 2nd and 3rd in the League (1933–34 &1935–36).