 In the league City finished in fourth place, scoring 97 goals, with an 11–2 win over West Bromwich Albion reserves the highlight.The stars of the side was Albert Lewis, who was described by the "Coventry Evening Telegraph" as the club's best player of the Birmingham Junior League era, and Billy Smith, scorer of forty goals.After the season finished Coventry applied to join the Southern League, which at the time was regarded as the third-best division in the country with clubs of a similar stature to those of the Football League's second division.