Precis from the Hendon & Finchley Times, 20 May 1927 :

Today (Friday) Hampstead F.C. start on a week's tour in Germany. Whatever may be the results of the matches, it is certain that Hampstead will uphold the good name of English amateur football.

The travelling party includes the following players: J.M. Trevers, R.A. Draper, A. Parsons, A.Anderson, H.L. Pease, R. Wardlaw, W.G. Gudgeon, G.P. Deeks, G.H. Smith, J. Smy, J.E. Harvey, G.F. Howell, F.G. Young, A.W. Thwaites.

Matches scheduled are as follows:
Sun May 22nd : v Sportfreunde Schwarz-Weiss, in Barmen;
Wed May 25th : v Turn and Rasensport Union 1880 e. V. Dusseldorf;
Thu May 26th : v Rheydter Spielverein, in Rheydt.
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Extract from the Hendon & Finchley Times, 27 May 1927 :

A regular reader of the Hendon and Finchley Times has kindly forwarded us the following report [extract thereof]:-

On Friday May 20th, the Hampstead football team, with officials and friends to the number of twenty-four, assembled at Victora, and proceeded to Dover, where they boarded the cross-channel steamer which carried them to Ostend.

After a brief look round Ostend, the party then travelled overnight by train to Dusseldorf, with a break en-route in Cologne, where a substantial breakfast was served in the station buffet. The Hotel Germania in Dusseldorf was the party's headquarters for the tour.

After sightseeing in Dusseldorf on Saturday, on Sunday morning the team travelled to Barmen for the first match of the tour. Most left the train at Elberfeld, in order to have the experience of travelling on the mono-rail to Barmen, which, we are told, is the only one of its kind in the world.

The Barmen football ground is composed of a softish concerete sprinkled with granite chippings, and falls damaged several of our players. It rained very heavily during most of the game, and the general conditions did not favour the Hampstead team.

Briefly told, the game ran in our favour for nearly all the first half, and Hampstead scored first through the centre-forward, Smy, from a pass by Smith. Later, the Barmen inside-left made quite a good equalising goal. Smith made two quite good goals, but the referee thought otherwise, and disallowed them. Barmen also made two more goals, both of which were flagrant examples of offside.

To crown our misfortunes a goal was awarded against us, although Trevers fielded and cleared the ball quite a foot on the right side of the line, and the game finished Barmen 4, Hampstead 1.

Barmen are quite a good side, and a draw would have been approximately correct, but Hampstead were unable to succeed against eleven players and the referee.

This is not an unusual experience for English footballers playing on foreign soil, where the policy of " protection " is understood better than here. We are hoping for better luck and more impartial referees in our other games.

[Only players known to have played in the match are shown in the team list.]