Post by Budleigh on Feb 23, 2010 22:40:38 GMT
The programme from the home reserve game in the Western League from the 1956/57 season played against Poole Town on Saturday 15th of December, 1956.
Poole won the Western League this season and were elevated back to the Southern League for 1957/58.
Interestingly Poole had two ex-United players in their team, both Jimmy’s:
Jimmy Drinkwater and Jimmy Kirk.
Whilst the Torquay team was made up of a mixture of first team and reserve players it included four who didn’t feature for the first team at any point: Anstey, Callicott, Horswell and Janes. Although Anstey must’ve been a regular reserve team player as he appears in other such programmes I have.
And poor Lawrence ‘Lol’ Langstreth. He made the one fleeting appearance for the first team away to Northampton in November 1956 when deputising for regular number 3, Harry Smith and that was that.
Peter Wakeham found himself in goal for the reserves having been first choice keeper for sometime but now kept out by the emergence of Mervyn Gill, apart from a brief return to the first team for a short flurry of matches over the busy Christmas period.
The only Calland recorded at this time is Ted so presumably this is him (as Jon points out below, I've had to do a little editing!). Whilst the Northcott is presumably George Northcott as Tommy was still ‘between’ United careers and George had lost his place in the first team after a run at the beginning of the season.
Poole won the Western League this season and were elevated back to the Southern League for 1957/58.
Interestingly Poole had two ex-United players in their team, both Jimmy’s:
Jimmy Drinkwater and Jimmy Kirk.
Whilst the Torquay team was made up of a mixture of first team and reserve players it included four who didn’t feature for the first team at any point: Anstey, Callicott, Horswell and Janes. Although Anstey must’ve been a regular reserve team player as he appears in other such programmes I have.
And poor Lawrence ‘Lol’ Langstreth. He made the one fleeting appearance for the first team away to Northampton in November 1956 when deputising for regular number 3, Harry Smith and that was that.
Peter Wakeham found himself in goal for the reserves having been first choice keeper for sometime but now kept out by the emergence of Mervyn Gill, apart from a brief return to the first team for a short flurry of matches over the busy Christmas period.
The only Calland recorded at this time is Ted so presumably this is him (as Jon points out below, I've had to do a little editing!). Whilst the Northcott is presumably George Northcott as Tommy was still ‘between’ United careers and George had lost his place in the first team after a run at the beginning of the season.
