City's only goal in a 1–1 draw with Huddersfield Town in November that season. One journalist stated that Brook 'gave a wonderful exhibition' in the game 'hitting the moving ball with uncanny precision across the Town goal' and that 'no winger makes his centres so quickly, and no winger roams so much and to such good purport'. City went on an unbeaten run after Christmas, winning 14 times and drawing 6 games. Brook scored a hat-trick in a 5-0 victory against Liverpool in March that season (with Herd and Doherty scoring City's other goals). The championship was won at Maine Road with a 4–1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday. Brook scored the first of his two goals in this game with a 'sizzling drive' which was described by one report as 'not so much a goal as a piece of forked lightning'. Brook scored 20 goals in this season and was the club's second highest scorer behind Peter Doherty who scored 30. City's four pronged attack of Brook, Doherty, Herd and Tilson clocked up 80 goals between them that season. Brook was the highest scoring winger in the league that season. City defeated Sunderland 2–0 in the 1937 FA Charity Shield. In May 1937, Manchester City played a German XI and were defeated 3–2, with Brook scoring one of City's goals. Brook was described as having had a 'splendid game, roving all over the field'. In the 1937–38 football season Brook was part of the City team that were relegated from the First Division despite scoring more goals than any other team. Brook scored 16 goals that season. In December 1937 Brook underwent an operation for acute appendicitis and returned to training at Manchester City within a month. In his absence, one journalist stated that 'the Maine Road club are finding his shoes amazingly hard to fill'. Brook returned to the team in a 1937–38 FA Cup third-round game, in which he starred (and scored once) in a 3–1 victory against Millwall. Eric Thompson of the Daily Mail stated that 'the amazing Eric Brook...with a couple of plasters on his side' reappeared 'as zestful as ever although only 46 days ago he was operated on for appendicitis'. City reached the quarter final that season but were ultimately defeated 3-2 by Aston Villa. Brook was unable to help his team win promotion from the Second Division in the 1938–39 football season. Brook