Post by Budleigh on Nov 23, 2009 13:37:49 GMT
This has to be one of my favourite pre-war programmes in my collection and as mention has been made recently of games against services teams thought it time to bring it out in the open.
It's for the reserves in a friendly game against the 1st Worcestershire Regiment, who were stationed at Plymouth, played on the 24th of November 1934.
I have split the centre page spread into three so as to show the wonderful adverts placed there.
The News & Views section is fascinating stating that we were hoping to field ‘a young amateur centre-forward from the Exeter district of whom promising reports have been received’. Any ideas who this may’ve been?
And fascinating reading in the mention of trainers and how ‘old footballers are now being appointed to these posts’. Then the list of what ex-players are now doing which states Dick Pym has moved to Topsham and ‘takes an interest in the doings of the local club’.
What a wonderful piece by ‘Mac’ who comments on the rough play at the recent Highbury game between England and Italy and somehow transforms this into an essay on the rules of the game going back to Sir Thomas Elyot in 1531 and Stubbs in his essay entitled ‘Anatomic of Abuses in the realm of England’ published in 1583!
Note also that at that time the reserves played in both the Western and Eastern Sections of the Southern League, this, therefore, being the one season Jon mentions on a thread elsewhere when Torquay only entered the Central Section once entailing horrible trips to to places like Folkestone, Margate, Dartford and Tunbridge Wells
This really must have been horrendous considering they were also playing in the Western League.
The reserve fixture list is therefore shown as SL, WL or CS. (Southern League Western Section, Central Section & Western League.)
Of the Torquay United team printed in the programme (which is not necessarily the team that finally played), eight had been involved in the Whites v Stripes practice match at the beginning of the season (see thread elsewhere) whilst a further two, E.V. Randell & E.P. Milton, didn’t play in that earlier game & don’t seem to feature in any list of United players. The eleventh player was Albert Clarke who went on to score three goals in five first team appearances later in the season then six in seven the following season before moving to Birmingham City.
Of the eight mentioned who also played in that earlier Practice match only E.E. Knott doesn’t appear in any United player lists.
So eight of this reserve team made various appearances in the first team during the season whilst the other three, as mentioned, are not recorded as United players.
The day of this match the first team were away to Dulwich Hamlet in the FA Cup where they won 2-1 in front of a 9,000 crowd.
It's for the reserves in a friendly game against the 1st Worcestershire Regiment, who were stationed at Plymouth, played on the 24th of November 1934.
I have split the centre page spread into three so as to show the wonderful adverts placed there.
The News & Views section is fascinating stating that we were hoping to field ‘a young amateur centre-forward from the Exeter district of whom promising reports have been received’. Any ideas who this may’ve been?
And fascinating reading in the mention of trainers and how ‘old footballers are now being appointed to these posts’. Then the list of what ex-players are now doing which states Dick Pym has moved to Topsham and ‘takes an interest in the doings of the local club’.
What a wonderful piece by ‘Mac’ who comments on the rough play at the recent Highbury game between England and Italy and somehow transforms this into an essay on the rules of the game going back to Sir Thomas Elyot in 1531 and Stubbs in his essay entitled ‘Anatomic of Abuses in the realm of England’ published in 1583!
Note also that at that time the reserves played in both the Western and Eastern Sections of the Southern League, this, therefore, being the one season Jon mentions on a thread elsewhere when Torquay only entered the Central Section once entailing horrible trips to to places like Folkestone, Margate, Dartford and Tunbridge Wells
This really must have been horrendous considering they were also playing in the Western League.
The reserve fixture list is therefore shown as SL, WL or CS. (Southern League Western Section, Central Section & Western League.)
Of the Torquay United team printed in the programme (which is not necessarily the team that finally played), eight had been involved in the Whites v Stripes practice match at the beginning of the season (see thread elsewhere) whilst a further two, E.V. Randell & E.P. Milton, didn’t play in that earlier game & don’t seem to feature in any list of United players. The eleventh player was Albert Clarke who went on to score three goals in five first team appearances later in the season then six in seven the following season before moving to Birmingham City.
Of the eight mentioned who also played in that earlier Practice match only E.E. Knott doesn’t appear in any United player lists.
So eight of this reserve team made various appearances in the first team during the season whilst the other three, as mentioned, are not recorded as United players.
The day of this match the first team were away to Dulwich Hamlet in the FA Cup where they won 2-1 in front of a 9,000 crowd.
Stan (Woods) and Ollie (Taylor) were still knockin' 'em out at The Plainmoor House Of Fun fifty years later!
