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Post by keyberrygull on Nov 2, 2009 14:04:26 GMT
Looking at the Western League site and came across this,
Torquay United Reserves Western League Champions 1960.
Can anyone tell me anything about this side because winning a league containing the reserve teams of the professional clubs from Bristol to Plymouth and the best of the rest must have been some achievement.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2009 15:28:20 GMT
I'll put up a final league table later. If Timbo - or someone else - can kindly find a 1st team programme for the very end of 1959/60 we may be able to get a near-complete list of players in that team.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2009 19:54:46 GMT
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Post by Jon on Nov 2, 2009 20:32:34 GMT
The 1959/60 season was an amazing one.
The first team won promotion.
The reserves did the Western League and Western League Cup double.
The A team did the South Devon League and Devon Senior Cup double.
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Post by timbo on Nov 2, 2009 20:53:30 GMT
I'll put up a final league table later. If Timbo - or someone else - can kindly find a 1st team programme for the very end of 1959/60 we may be able to get a near-complete list of players in that team. I have got the last two programmes from 59/60,but the appearances are not listed. This is from the third from last programme for the match against Millwall on Easter Monday(18/04/60) which I will hopefully post in full around Easter time.  |
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Post by keyberrygull on Nov 2, 2009 21:27:09 GMT
Thanks for that Barton Downs/Timbo and maybe it was not as big an achievement as I first thought. What interests me most is the players who made this team up? Local lads, ex pros, fringe players?
A few names listed in the league tables attached stand out. Is it the Blue Square premier team Salisbury? South teams Weston Super Mare and Dorchester? Not sure what happened to Peasedown Welfare Miners though are you.
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Post by Dave on Nov 2, 2009 21:33:07 GMT
What interests me most is the players who made this team up? Local lads, ex pros, fringe players?  ?? . Looking at what Timbo put up there must have been local lads as a Bristow is listed, I wonder which one? |
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Post by keyberrygull on Nov 2, 2009 21:52:32 GMT
The 1959/60 season was an amazing one. The first team won promotion. The reserves did the Western League and Western League Cup double. The A team did the South Devon League and Devon Senior Cup double. Where did the A team play, Windmill hill, King George, The Rec? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2009 22:55:52 GMT
In that list of players for the reserves in 1959/60 you'll see the name "Glazier". This was Bill Glazier, the future Crystal Palace and Coventry goalkeeper, who also played for England Under 23 and the Football League XI. He would have been no more than sixteen at the time.
My father used to moan about his loss from Torquay United as "another bloody Torquay cock-up". I wonder what the story was?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2009 23:06:31 GMT
A few names listed in the league tables attached stand out. Is it the Blue Square premier team Salisbury? South teams Weston Super Mare and Dorchester? Not sure what happened to Peasedown Welfare Miners though are you. Those are all first teams unless otherwise stated so, yes, it was the first XIs of Salisbury, Dorchester and Weston. Peasedown are one of Jon's favourite Torquay United opponents ever since we played them (as Peasedown St John) back in the 1920s. As the name of the club in 1960 suggests, Peasedown was part of the old North Somerset coalfield with Welton Rovers, Paulton Rovers, Radstock and Clandown being other coalfield teams. The area produced a few footballers in its time including Alec Stock and Tony Book. |
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Post by Jon on Nov 2, 2009 23:20:42 GMT
Where did the A team play, Windmill hill, King George, The Rec? They played at Barton Road / Cricketfield Road - where Upton Athletic now play and where Torquay United played prior to merging with Ellacombe and ending up at Plainmoor in 1910. |
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Post by merse on Nov 3, 2009 3:39:20 GMT
A few names listed in the league tables attached stand out. Is it the Blue Square premier team Salisbury? South teams Weston Super Mare and Dorchester? Not sure what happened to Peasedown Welfare Miners though are you.  Same fate as the coal industry in this country I'm afraid Matey. Yes, they certainly ARE the very same Salisbury, Dorchester and W-S-m! |
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