Cumberland Sausage Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Programme from Town's first ever League game which will be 75 Years ago this August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cumberland Sausage Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 Are there any Town fans still alive who were at this game as it would be great to hear their memories from that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun mc Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 5 hours ago, Cumberland Sausage said: Are there any Town fans still alive who were at this game as it would be great to hear their memories from that time. My dad (who doesn't do internet that much so won't see this) said he started going aged 7, so would make that 1947-ish. He still goes every home game. I'll ask him if he remembers which was his first game I have a couple of programmes from that 1st season, and the handwriting for the scores is very similar to that on your programme - unless everyone wrote the same way back in the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cumberland Sausage Posted April 18, 2020 Author Share Posted April 18, 2020 That would be great. If you find out which game he remembers I will put a scan of that programme on here for you to show him and he can give his memories from that game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derwent Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Quiz question - who was Town’s first ever coach ? I’m not prejudiced, I hate everybody equally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkw Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 6 minutes ago, Derwent said: Quiz question - who was Town’s first ever coach ? Was it DavidM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old un Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 On 15/04/2020 at 10:13, Cumberland Sausage said: Programme from Town's first ever League game which will be 75 Years ago this August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old un Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 I was a that very first game with two 15 year old Seaton pals. Both sadly passed away many years ago. The names that I remember from that team are Bill ASkew, Hedley Rogers, George Armstrong ( scored the first try), Jepson who later partnered Albert Pepperell ( two clever half backs, became Peppy and Jeppy), Irving ( I believe 'Tint' ), big Denis Cavaanagh (Kicked the first goal). We had a McGilray, an Ausie who joined later, I'm not sure it was the same one. He had a hell of a long distance kick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old un Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 23 minutes ago, old un said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old un Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 18 minutes ago, old un said: My guess is Martin Hodgson, I believe ex Swinton prop forward, had a pub in Dearham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cumberland Sausage Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, old un said: I was a that very first game with two 15 year old Seaton pals. Both sadly passed away many years ago. The names that I remember from that team are Bill ASkew, Hedley Rogers, George Armstrong ( scored the first try), Jepson who later partnered Albert Pepperell ( two clever half backs, became Peppy and Jeppy), Irving ( I believe 'Tint' ), big Denis Cavaanagh (Kicked the first goal). We had a McGilray, an Ausie who joined later, I'm not sure it was the same one. He had a hell of a long distance kick. Thanks for that Old Un it's great to get a reply from someone who was actually at the game where it all began. Prior to this game a couple of friendlies were played by a Cumberland Select team and if memory serves me right without checking my collection they were against Huddersfield,Hunslet and an England team.Were you at any of these by any chance ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old un Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 3 hours ago, Cumberland Sausage said: Thanks for that Old Un it's great to get a reply from someone who was actually at the game where it all began. Prior to this game a couple of friendlies were played by a Cumberland Select team and if memory serves me right without checking my collection they were against Huddersfield,Hunslet and an England team.Were you at any of these by any chance ? No, Broughton Rangers was my first professional game. I attended Haven's first game also. Jack Kitchen the great Bradford Northern centre became their first coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cumberland Sausage Posted April 22, 2020 Author Share Posted April 22, 2020 Versus Hull on 21st August 1948 and their first ever team included the Flimby Legend John James McKeown. They won this game and followed it up the following week with a defeat against Batley at Mount Pleasant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old un Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I believe Gus turned John McKeown down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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