Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 21:09:13 GMT
Clearing more books out I found a copy of Doidge’s Year Book 1953, published by the Western Morning News. This was a long-standing publication covering politics, local government, agriculture, sport and a whole mixture of other things.
It’s not much but here’s Doidge’s football review for 1951/52:
Sixty years ago or not, it wouldn’t be the Western Morning News without top-billing for Argyle. Well, they won the division admittedly. And, to follow this article, there was another about their Golden Jubilee.
Note the other results and tables. That was the first season of the SW League which continued to 2007. Won by our reserves you’ll see.
Elsewhere in the book there’s stuff about golf, sailing and hunting. Also three or four pages about rugby including a table of club playing records for 1951/52. That’s the way it was before leagues; just an alphabetical table that told you very little about the relative strength of the clubs listed. Each had greatly varying fixture lists and you’d never be sure who had played whom:
It’s not much but here’s Doidge’s football review for 1951/52:
Sixty years ago or not, it wouldn’t be the Western Morning News without top-billing for Argyle. Well, they won the division admittedly. And, to follow this article, there was another about their Golden Jubilee.
Note the other results and tables. That was the first season of the SW League which continued to 2007. Won by our reserves you’ll see.
Elsewhere in the book there’s stuff about golf, sailing and hunting. Also three or four pages about rugby including a table of club playing records for 1951/52. That’s the way it was before leagues; just an alphabetical table that told you very little about the relative strength of the clubs listed. Each had greatly varying fixture lists and you’d never be sure who had played whom:
