May 5, 1928: Dixie Dean Scores 60 Goals In a Season
May 5, 1928: Everton Football Club play Arsenal Football to a 3-3 draw at Goodison Park in Liverpool. Everton's biggest star, forward William Ralph Dean Jr., known as "Dixie" Dean, scores all their goals -- his 58th, 59th and 60th of the Football League Division One season. This remains, far and away, a record for English soccer's top division. The preceding Saturday, April 28, Dean had scored 4 goals in Everton's 5-3 win away to Lancashire team Burnley. Huddersfield Town defeated Portsmouth, 4-1 at Leeds Road in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. As a result, Everton clinched the League title. They finished 2 points ahead of Huddersfield, 53 to 51, with 2 points for a win at the time. In fact, Everton had clinched the League title on May 2, despite not being scheduled, when Huddersfield, in a makeup game, lost to Aston Villa, 3-0 at Villa Park in Birmingham. Had Huddersfield won that game, Everton would have needed at least a draw against Arsenal to take the League title...