October 17th

Results
(match reports accessible by clicking on opponent's name, where available)

1885	St. Albans	H	London Association Cup R1	5 - 2
1896	Gravesend	H	Southern League	4 - 0
1898	New Brompton	H	Thames and Medway League	2 - 1
1903	Bristol Rovers	A	Southern League	0 - 1
1908	Chesterfield	H	Second Division	4 - 0
1914	Sheffield United	A	First Division	1 - 1
1921	London Caledonians	H	London FA Charity Cup R1	5 - 0
1925	Manchester United	A	First Division	0 - 0
1927	Fulham	A	London FA Charity Cup R1	2 - 6
1931	Notts. County	A	Second Division	1 - 3
1936	Southampton	H	Second Division	4 - 0
1942	Reading	A	Football League South	6 - 2
1953	Cardiff City	A	First Division	0 - 1
1959	Sheffield Wednesday	A	First Division	1 - 2
1964	Leeds United	A	First Division	1 - 3
1970	West Ham United	A	First Division	2 - 2
1972	Feyenoord (Holland)	H	Jimmy Greaves Testimonial	2 - 1
1981	Sunderland	A	First Division	2 - 0
1992	Middlesbrough	H	Premier League	2 - 2
2002	DC United (USA)	H	Tottenham Tribute Match	0 - 1
2009	Portsmouth	A	Premier League	2 - 1
2017	Real Madrid (Spain)	A	Champions League Group H	1 - 1

Games on this day in Tottenham Hotspur's history

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Played

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Biggest win on this day

5-0 London Caledonians (London FA Charity Cup) (Home) 1921

Biggest defeat on this day

2-6 Fulham (London FA Charity Cup) (Away) 1927

Biggest score-line on this day

2-6 Fulham (London FA Charity Cup) (Away) 1927
6-2 Reading (Football League South) (Away) 1942

Last win on this day

2-1 2009 Portsmouth (Premier League) (Home)

Last draw on this day

1-1 2017 Real Madrid (Champions League) (Away)

Last defeat on this day

0-1 2002 DC United (USA) (Tottenham Tribute match) (Home)

Teams we have played on this day

Bristol Rovers	1
Cardiff City	1
Chesterfield	1
DC United (USA)	1
Feyenoord (Holland)	1
Fulham	1
Gillingham/New Brompton	1
Gravesend	1
Leeds United	1
London Caledonians	1
Manchester United	1
Middlesbrough	1
Notts County	1
Portsmouth	1
Reading	1
Real Madrid (Spain)	1
St. Albans	1
Sheffield United	1
Sheffield Wednesday	1
Southampton	1
Sunderland	1
West Ham United	1

1896	Richard McElhaney scores for Tottenham for the first time.
1908	Biggest home win against Chesterfield and the smallest home crowd = 14,000
1921	Charlie Handley scores his first goal for Spurs.
1925	Willie Sage makes his last Tottenham appearance.
1927	Biggest away defeat by Fulham.
1931	Dick Rowley scores the final goal of his Tottenham career in his last match for the club. It was also Ted Harper's last appearance for Spurs.
1942	Biggest away win at Reading.
1947	Tom Fitchie, inside forward 1901-1902, died.
1953	Equal biggest margin of defeat to Cardiff City in an away game.
1959	John White makes a scoring Tottenham debut. Len Worley plays his only match in a Spurs shirt.
1970	Biggest away crowd against West Ham United and their club record attendance = 42,322
1972	Tottenham awarded Jimmy Greaves a testimonial match, two years after leaving the club, and it was the first granted to a Spurs player in front of a crowd of 45,799.
1973	Martin Peters captains the England side against Poland at Wembley.
1977	Rory Allen, forward 1996-1999, born.
1978	Lars Hirschfeld, goalkeeper 2002- , born.
1992	Nick Barmby scores his first goal for Tottenham.
2002	A host of old favourites turn out in Spurs shirts again in a benefit for the Tottenham players of old who have hit hard times. Jurgen Klinsmann, Chris Waddle, Paul and Clive Allen, Paul Gascoigne, Colin Calderwood and David Ginola all played for Tottenham.
2012	Milija Aleksic, goalkeeper 1978-1982, died.

Information gathered from "Spurs - A Day-To-Day Life" by Graham Betts, Spurs Handbooks,
"Spurs - A Complete Record" and "The Spurs Alphabet" both by Bob Goodwin and other sources.