Rather than promote Edelston, the board appointed Jack Peart to succeed Hogan in 1935. This was very much a return to the tradition of Harry Bradshaw and Kelso, a safety first selection but, in fairness to Peart, he restored the managerial stability to the club that had been missing since 1924.
Born in South Shields in 1888, he had been a player with nine League clubs (including Newcastle, Derby and Sheffield United) between 1907 and 1924, a centre forward who earned the title of the 'most injured man in football'.
He started in management with Rochdale between 1923 and 1930, first as player-manager, and then moved on to Second Division Bradford City (1930-35). Fulham offered him £600 pa and the same bonuses as the players to come south, and he accepted in the spring of 1935.
After his nomadic playing career, Peart put down roots in West London, and stayed in the job until his death 13 years later. His Fulham career, like Kelso's, spanned a world war, but in the six seasons either side, the Cottagers were a consistent middle of the table Second Division team.
His major achievement was the run in the FA Cup in his first season, which stopped 90 minutes short of Wembley.
His best pre-war side was maturing when hostilities broke out and never realised its potential whilst after the war, his team was on the verge of the club's biggest success when he died, a month short of his 60th birthday, in September 1948. A quiet, knowledgeable pipe-smoker, Peart was an administrator rather than tactician and he left the club in a stronger position than he found it.