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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 21:02:02 GMT
Here's some stuff from the 1973/74 schools' football season featuring the Torquay BGS 1st XI which won the Devon Senior Schools League. This was basically a sixth form league - for players aged 16-19 - which mainly featured Devon's old grammar schools. Apart from league fixtures the team also played friendlies against opponents such as Exeter College, Britannia Royal Naval College, Exeter University 3rds, HMS Fisgard, Weymouth GS and Millfield. I tagged along in a non-playing capacity acting as fixtures secretary as well as compiling the league tables. For my troubles I'm pleased to say I received a Devon Schools FA medal. I also sent reports to the Herald Express - some of which are shown below - and forwarded results to Ross Salmon for his sports round-up on the forerunner to Radio Devon. See if you can put names to any of the faces in this end-of-season team picture:   Here's a reminder of the fuel crisis of the winter of 1973/74 which played a part in an amazing sequence of events that saw two General Elections in 1974:  Richard Goslin (NAGS) was the big name in local schools football in those days. I later encountered Brad McStravick of Devonport HS at university when he was on his way to becoming an Olympic decathlete:  Three games in three days?  I wonder if Rear Admiral Richard Leaman OBE remembers that defeat at Britannia Royal Naval College?  And something from the cricket season. I believe Steve Craig pitched up at the grammar school from Chelmsford and was soon starting an association with Torquay CC which continues to this day. It's the Jimmy Parker of Herald Express fame and Keith Pearson later worked in East Africa where, I think I'm correct in saying, he landed a small role in Out of Africa. Roger Sellek - a real ducker and diver - was more of a squash player and became somebody big in Lloyds of London and the world of reinsurance. John Cockshaw, the skipper, sadly died at the age of twenty.  |
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Post by capitalgull on May 25, 2009 21:10:29 GMT
Looks like Chris Penford to your right Nick, if it is he was eventually my House Master in the late 80s. He even decided to name me joint House Captain for Davys - there really is no accounting for taste sometimes. I'd always thought he didn't like me much because I was bloody hopeless at P.E. and Games apart from cricket!!
And of course on the right end of the back row, Dave Golder, my first form tutor and maths teacher as well.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2009 21:29:28 GMT
Yep, Chris Penford, a youngster from the lower sixth. And it's the legendary Dave Golder with the other member of staff sure to be identified by Jon.
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Post by Jon on May 25, 2009 22:04:01 GMT
Yep, Chris Penford, a youngster from the lower sixth. And it's the legendary Dave Golder with the other member of staff sure to be identified by Jon. Tommy "Waffles" Hood! To the right of the guy holding the ball is our mutual friend Dave Critchlow. Do you know that you've just set off Chelston's nervous tic? |
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Post by stuartB on May 25, 2009 22:07:46 GMT
Yep, Chris Penford, a youngster from the lower sixth. And it's the legendary Dave Golder with the other member of staff sure to be identified by Jon. Tommy "Waffles" Hood! To the right of the guy holding the ball is our mutual friend Dave Critchlow. Do you know that you've just set off Chelston's nervous tic? secondary Modern boys could never hack the Latin, could they? ;D |
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Post by Jon on May 25, 2009 22:16:02 GMT
Here's a reminder of the fuel crisis of the winter of 1973/74 which played a part in an amazing sequence of events that saw two General Elections in 1974: When we scrapped the Western League team in 1973, the idea was to field a side in the midweek Western Counties Floodlit League. It seemed like a good idea at the time but due to the fuel crisis there was a flodlight ban - so we only played three matches! |
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Post by chelstongull on May 26, 2009 14:55:44 GMT
Tommy "Waffles" Hood! To the right of the guy holding the ball is our mutual friend Dave Critchlow. Do you know that you've just set off Chelston's nervous tic? secondary Modern boys could never hack the Latin, could they? ;D Shouldn't that be Secondary with a big S? |
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Post by aussie on May 26, 2009 15:01:08 GMT
Or even a capital S!
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Post by chelstongull on May 26, 2009 15:09:18 GMT
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Post by aussie on May 26, 2009 15:11:23 GMT
Just love being pedantic sometimes, S is really easy to spell mate! ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2009 21:57:31 GMT
To the right of the guy holding the ball is our mutual friend Dave Critchlow. It's Steve Aggett holding the ball who, by then, was in his third year in the 1st XI having broken into the team as a 5th year (year 11). This meant Steve was a member of the team which reached the quarter-finals of the ESFA Individual Schools Trophy in 1972, a run that started with a TBGS march on Penzance in the first round (with Stan Lockyer leading the pitch invasion) and finished at the hands of Stoke-on-Trent 6th Form College on an old rubbish tip in the Potteries. Steve - whose dad Charlie was a leading figure in the Torbay Pioneer League - also played for Torquay United Colts in that 1973/74 season. Dave Critchlow himself had a lengthy SDL career and was the son of Bob who managed St Marychurch Rovers in the old Wednesday League. Of others in the picture, Rob (Bob) Doble (who we knew as "Sid") played for Chelston for donkeys years and I believe Clive Mitchell and Tim Williams were with Brixham United when they stepped up to the Western League. Jimmy Parker is there - next to Dave Golder - and there's also Les Burnett of the Torbay Development Agency and Francis Clark. Ron Arnaouti is next to me and - in the front row - you'll find Lawrence Augusti who, according to last week's Herald Express, has just become Torquay Squash Club's Over-50s champion. This leaves long-time Merseyside resident Kim Marshall - who I last saw at Gresty Road in the 1980s - and goalkeeper Pat Hogbin who I encountered sat behind me at Dean Court four or five seasons ago. When I'd last seen Pat in 1974 he'd just joined the Ordnance Survey in Southampton. When I saw him at Bournemouth he'd recently taken early retirement from the OS which rather says it all! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2011 19:35:37 GMT
Thanks to Tony (plugh) for these Torquay GS football cuttings. The 1969 Under 13 team was made up of a mixture of (what would now be called) year 7 and 8 pupils. Alongside the picture you'll see a list of Westlands and Newton Abbot GS Under 14 players from the same year. The Torbay Schools training squad – including a certain C Lee (Cuthbert Mayne) – was named at the end of year 9 in the summer of 1970. It was to form the basis of the Under 15 (year 10 in new money) district team in the 1970/71 ESFA Trophy, always the “big thing” in the days when people could legally leave school a year earlier than now:   |
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Post by loyalgull on Jan 18, 2011 23:03:44 GMT
i went to kirkstead college at this time,i remember andy pougiouros,and that he was good at footy and pretty fast runner
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