Blackpool F.C. season 1903–04

The 1903-04 season was Blackpool F.C.'s seventh season (fourth consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the eighteen-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing fifteenth.

New signings included forwards Charles Bennett and Fred Pentland and midfielder John Rooke. Out during the close season had gone Jack Birchall, Walter Cookson, Harold Hardman, Harry Stirzaker, Henry Parr, and Lorenzo Evans.

Charles Bennett was the club's top scorer, with nine goals.

The season began with a 3–0 defeat at Woolwich Arsenal on 5 September in front of a crowd of 12,000.

Another defeat followed seven days later, 0–2 at home to Barnsley.

Blackpool picked up their first point of the season on 19 September, in a goalless draw at Lincoln City, and the following week chalked up their first victory: 4–1 against at Bloomfield Road. Fred Pentland, John Rooke, Jack Scott and Jack Parkinson scored the hosts' goals.

Two consecutive defeats ensued — 1–2 at Chesterfield on 3 October, and 1–4 at home to Bolton Wanderers on 10 October. Pentland scored the Seasiders' goal in each game.

Pentland made it five goals in four games when he netted twice in a 4–1 victory at Burnley on 17 October. Geordie Anderson and Edward Threlfall were the other Blackpool scorers.

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