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CL

Position 13th out of 14

FAC

2q

Kingstonian

1-3

AC

Pr

Carshalton Athletic

2-3

LC

1st

Chesham United

1-2

SSC

1st

Dulwich Hamlet

0-6

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

3.30 K.O. 3.15 for Cup ties

Club Colours

Light & Dark Blue Halves

Change: Red & Black

President

H.H. Maharajah Gaekwar of Baroda

Chairman

Bill Townsend

Bert Ruddle v-c

Secretary

Sid (SH) Herbert

Asst WH Challis (ex-player)

Treasurer

A.M.Thompson

Asst L.A.Prince

Press Sec

J.H.Kelly

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By January it is F.C.Mirams

Manager

Selection Committee

Committee
elected at AGM: L Anderson, Q Budd, Sid Bristow, JE Greenleaf, R Gurr, HL
Heywood, W Johnson, N Lane,

G.Osborne, RF Scott, D Sims, E Shelbert,
Wright, and Mirams.

Additional
First and Second team records in THE BOOK. Slight errors in it from time to
time though.

May 49
Supporters working to tidy the ground up in preparation for Festival Week
"Borough Sports Week" starting 11/6.

17/6/49
Festival Week in Epsom. Bicycle Polo match & Borough Youth displays held
at West Street 6.45.

Epsom Cycle
Club v Crystal Palace BP. Drew 4-4.

June 49 Epsom
join Corinthian League from London League.

They were
recommended ahead of Harrow and Leatherhead by the Committee.

18/6/49 Pony
Gymkhana (2pm) and 12 Stable Lads Boxing contests 6.30 at West Street.

July 49 Epsom
Supporters take news well about the switch from the London League to the
Corinthian League.

13/7/49 AGM.
Held in the club grandstand!

Bert Ruddle
(outgoing Chairman) plus Harry Hawke (ex-secretary) and W.Kilbourn
(Corinthian League Secretary) present.

Hawke felt
that last year's team compared well with the pre war teams. Epsom were the
highest scorers in London Lge

last year but
only finished third.

Annual Report
said "On our showing of last season we look forward with confidence to a
bright future on the playing field".

Club reported
deficit of £176, mainly due to paying off a £79 overdraft that had been
outstanding for several years.

£286 travel
expenses, £212 to club trustees, £222 printing and stationery costs, £174 for
players and officials refreshments.

Total
outgoings were £1544.

Bert Ruddle
disappointed with gates of only 1,000 this year. Maharajah Gaekwar re-elected
President, while Alderman

Mann and Mr
Kilbourn were elected vice-presidents.

Bert Ruddle
outvoted as Chairman 23-16. Supporters Club thanked by Sid Herbert.

Byfleet
playing at Rectory Lane, Byfleet. Hawkers were at the Sports Ground in
Richmond Road.

13/8/49 Trial
match with Redhill. Line up: Rawkins, MacDonald, Hunt, Engelse, Moffatt,
Arblaster, Collins, Watkins, Cutter,

Marshall, and
Chitty. Engelse replaced Eric Jenner who left for Bromley.

Papers say
Fred Chitty is still erratic despite his scoring record. Also pitch is still
lumpy and grass needs cutting.

Aug 49 Future
players Vic Honey and Dennis Dodd are trialling at Carshalton Athletic.

Aug 49 Cecil
Weller (Leatherhead)  selected for SSL
v Sussex League at Horsham on 07/09/49

Aug 49 Alan
Redman is at Dorking

Stenning,
Weller and F.Graffham are at Leatherhead in Oct 49

Aug 49 future
player Bill Nuth is at Edgware

Aug 49 future player Henryk Mikrut is at Wycombe Wanderers
and Glyn Hinshelwood is at Hendon but fractures his wrist in Sept 49.

Aug 49 Papers
refer to a conversation with a committee member, who says they need a crowd
of 3,000 to put the club back

on its feet,
but 1,200 was considered good last year for a league game. Some felt that the
location was a problem, but some

old stagers'
said it was good enough pre-war. Suggested a banner be flown in Ewell High
Street!

Also referred
to was the lack of help and "uncooperative manner" of the Borough
Council, as Epsom had to shoulder the

cost of
looking after the pitch, while many other clubs didn't, and were helped by
their councils.

20/8/49
Epsom's first game in the Corinthian League. They hold Chesham Utd to a 2-2
draw in sweltering sun at Chesham.

Supporters
Club took a coach to Chesham. Membership 1 shilling. See Mr Taylor or Mr Hall

The old cry
"Up the Town" gives great encouragement, says programme, even
though Epsom Town became Epsom in 1934.

Reference to
Epsom Baths being open for over ten years now. 15/3/39 officially opened.
1,000 in every day during holidays.

Aug 49 Len
Lowder now with Banstead Athletic in their first Surrey Senior League season.

27/8/49
Freddie Marshall scores equaliser from 25 yards after 12 seconds of second
half v Walton & Hersham. W & H were

three time
Corinthian League champions but Epsom beat them 3-2, which technically
stopped them from making it four, as.

they would
miss out on the title by a point in the end. Debut for Reuben Leverington.

Leverington
previously played for the juniors in the 30's and had a spell at Leatherhead
after the war.

Geoff Porter
recalls him as a decent cricketer, who lived on the Ebbisham Road Estate and
married Gwen Stevens.

Sept 49 Alan
Redman still at Dorking.

Sep 49 future player Henryk Mikrut, listed as Harry - is
at Wycombe - would suffer an eye injury on 07/04/50 at Leytonstone - out for
season

Sep 49 another
future player - 18 year old Johnny Blizzard is also at Wycombe all season - a
Brentford lad.

Sept 49 Bill
Wiles playing for Woking

Sept 49
Extensive improvements planned for West Street. The "rickety fence"
which surrounds the pitch itself is apparently

to be
replaced by a wall (never happens), and dressing rooms are to be transferred
to the rear of the stand when plumbing

can be sorted
out. Again, this never happens. "The ground is poor. It shocks visitors
and deters locals" says Herald.

The Herald
also thinks that the council should do more.

3/9/49 Dull game in the FA Cup v Guildford. Collins put us
ahead from the spot after 10 minutes and after 40 minutes Hanton made it

2-0 from a Collins pass. HT 2-0 before Marshall made it
three after 52 minutes with a solo goal, beating three men. Hanton scored
the

fourth soon after this as he headed in a rebound after
WAtkins had hit the bar while Cutter and Marshall both scored towards the end
in

quick
succession.

10/9/49 Brian
Moffatt unable to play. Fred Chitty deputises. No mention of this in THE BOOK.

10/9/49 Epsom were 2-0 up but couldn't hold on, and were
3-2 down at HT. Lost 4-2 aat home to Hounslow. Hanton scored after 6 and

Cutter headed in a Collins cross after 15 but it was 2-1
after 20, 2-2 after 22 and HT was 2-3 with a fourth goal after 55 minutes for
the visitors.

10/9/49 After
Epsom game was an Amateur Cup tie at West Street between Banstead Athletic
and Old Westminster

Citizens,
which Banstead won 8-0 (1-0 HT). Banstead groundshare at Epsom! Old
Westminster Citizens were also former

tenants at
West Stret pre WW1 from 1905 when known as Old Citizens.

10/9/49 Future player Sid Faggetter plays for Sutton,
while another future striker Bill Goddard plays for Leyton as they defeat
Sutton 1-0 at

Leyton.
Goddard scored the only goal.

17/9/49 Epsom
are fortunate to win, as they were trailing 2-1 with 15 minutes left, but
recover to win 4-2. Winners play

Woking or Met
Police (A).

Sept 49 Ron
Orford joins from Sutton.

24/9/49 Reg Hunt breaks his arm early in the second half
at Erith & Belvedere in our 3-0 loss.. Out for considerable time. 10 men.

He was
actually transferred to a hospital that was then quarantined after a typhoid
outbreak!

24/9/49 Papers say that small pitch at Erith upset Epsom.
Future player Freddie Boatwright scored for Erith who win 3-0 with goals
after 46,

62 and soon
after that. Hunt was injured after 56 minutes.

24/9/49 Bill
Cutter was unavailable as he was playing for Surrey v Cornwall @ Penzance.

1/10/49 One
of the biggest upsets in the FA Cup that season, as Epsom go to Woking and
win 2-1. Scored two in

the first
half and held on from there. Papers say that defence was
"rock-like" and survived a concentrated assault in 2nd

half with 13
corners awarded in the last 20 minutes.

1/10/49 Woking hit the bar after 32 minutes but Ralph
converted a penalty for handball after 35 and Cutter got the second just
before

HT from a
Collins pass.

Oct 49 Jan
Sorensen joins Kingstonian. A former Danish Division 1 player came over with
Jensen who is now at Hull City.

Former and
future player Stan Scott also plays on the same wing as Sorensen, and they
team up well.

8/10/49
Robust play from Epsom mars the game. Papers do not know how this team beat
Walton & H or Woking.

8/10/49 Epsom lose 3-2 at Carshalton Athletic but were 3-0
down before Ernie Watkins scored with a great free kick and Collins helped in
a

Hanton cross with ten minutes remaining. BOOK says Chenery got the second, not Collins but
Advertiser and Herald both say Collins.

15/10/49
Redhill v Epsom Old Grammarians in SIC this day. Prog Y. Redhill won 8-0. HT
2-0.

15/10/49 A HT
from Johnny Whing enables Kingstonian to knock Epsom out of the FA Cup.

Record
Attendance at West Street of approx 5,000 for FA Cup visit of Kingstonian on
15/10/49.

Amateur Sport
Magazine 22/10/49 says it was 1,000 over the previous record.

Herald says it
was "over 5,000" but doesn't make clear exactly how much over.

15/10/49
Epsom just ran out of steam. We trailed after 30 but Cutter equalised after
40 minutes from a Watkins free kick.

22/10/49 Weakened Epsom side minus Moffatt, MacDonald and
Leverington crash 7-1 at Grays. We led 1-0 when Ralph scored with a

high ball in
that the keeper misjudged.

22/10/49
Reserve programme this day announces that a collection for Reg Hunt the
previous Saturday raised £32 11s 0d.

What a good
day to have a collection. You wouldn't get that nowadays!

Another appeal
this day for money to be sent to F.C. Mirams, 55 Meadowview Road for ground
improvements.

29/10/49 Brand
HT for Grays as they win easily. Don Ralph mispen in 1st half at 0-3. HT 0-3
says prog.

Oct 49 John
Gregory writes from Epsom County Secondary School to thank Epsom for allowing
the boys to use the ground

so often for
the Epsom, Leatherhead and District Schools FA matches. E.g. Hood Shield,
Wood Cup etc.

He wrote on
FA's behalf.

Oct 49
Reference to Cecil Cairns being older brother of Gordon. Previous Epsom
player, who also played during the war.

Both were
regular scorers in their time. Gordon is a future Epsom player.

27/10/49 Whist
Drive at the Myers Hall run by Supporters Club Admission 1s 6d starting at
8pm.

Nov 49 Freddie
Marshall is selected for Civil Service.

Nov 49 Eric
Bristow is at Leatherhead - formerly Woking

4/11/49 is the next Herald to look through, followed by
1952-1956 inclusive as 1950+1951 and 1957 onwards are at Bourne Hall.

5/11/49 Prog
announces that contributions had been made to the Ground Improvement Fund by
Messrs Stewart, Len

Anderson, AM
Thompson, Bill Townsend, R Gurr, Q Budd, E Greenleaf, Sid Bristow, W Johnson,
Bronk Challis, LA Prince,

Sid Herbert,
Ted Wheal, Sidex, Alderman GCA Mann, and a season ticket holder (unnamed).

There is
reference to buying of a fence post for around the ground, and these cost 7
shillings.

Nov 49 Tommy
Wright joins from Kingstonian.

5/11/49 Lionel
Hanton returns to Dorking and scores 5 for reserves v Chertsey in SSL res
division.

5/11/49 4
goals conceded in 15 minutes at Maidenhead.

12/11/49 Game
v Slough starts slightly late says programme.

19/11/49
Epsom lose 3-1 at home to Uxbridge but other games around are fogged out.
Walton & H v Edgware was one.

19/11 and
26/11 Hayes are losing twice at Leatherhead in AC, but both times the match
was abandoned, fog on 19/11/49

and bad light
on 26/11/49 after 85 minutes. When match was replayed on 3/12/49, Hayes won
3-1!!

26/11/49-3/12/49
Bill Cutter playing for Surrey v Sussex @ Horsham in midweek game..

26/11/49 Edgware pen miss (high) in 2nd half. We still
lose 6-3 there. Future player Bill Nuth is in the Edgware programme line up.

10/12/49
Apparently B Davies was due to play in this game instead of Marshall, but he
never played, and Ken Minter took

his place.
Apparently Davies was a former Epsom Town player during the war, and was
recently playing for Coates Sports,

in Kingston
& District League.

10/12/49
Edgware hit bar 4 times in 1st half. Drew 3-3.

Dec 49 Minter
returns to the club after having spent some months in Cornwall.

Dec 49 Future
player/coach Sid Faggetter joins Erith & Belvedere from Sutton.

17/12/49 Bill
Cutter sustains a fractured leg at Hounslow, but actually played for ten
minutes of the next game at

Carshalton,
before it is discovered!

24/12/49
Programme and papers say Tommy Wright scored for Epsom v Carshalton, but THE
BOOK says Alec Graham.

BOOK is wrong.

27/12/49 Ernie
Watkins definitely scored a penalty not Ron Orford. THE BOOK is wrong.

31/12/49
Ex-player Brian D Beglan plays for Dulwich v Epsom SSC. Tommy Wright pulled
muscle 10 mins. Passenger.

Beglan has
been at Dulwich for over ten years now but mostly plays in the reserves this
season after being first team last year.

31/12/49 3-0
down after 18 minutes. Weakened side due to injuries but good crowd. Lost
6-0.

Jan 50 Fred
Chitty at Dorking with Lionel Hanton

Jan 50 Len
Lowder at Banstead

Jan 50 Tommy
Rochester at Surbiton Town

Jan 50
A.Braithwaite joined Walton & Hersham from Woking

Jan 50 Fred
Stenning and Eric Bristow at Leatherhead

Jan 50 Tommy
Temlett at Leatherhead

7/1/50 Late
equaliser from Eastbourne robs Epsom of a win.

Jan 50 Herald
says that Epsom's record has killed the enthusiasm of what was a steadily
swelling band of supporters.

Changes have
been required, due to injuries to Watkins with a splintered ankle bone, and
Ken Allan has strained

stomach and
back muscles. Rooke (ex-Eastbourne) has been promoted from the reserves.

11/1/50
Surrey Comet reports "EPSOM FC FACING GRAVE FINANCIAL CRISIS".
However Sid Herbert believes they can

last the
season, and expenses were cut to the bone. Publicity Secretary F.C. Mirams
agrees that new layers and more

support are
required.

21/1/50
Friendly at Rainham saw a 5-0 defeat. HT 2-0. Howison injured knee at 4-0. 10
men.

28/1/50
Chesham play with 10 men for almost the entire game (broken collarbone), but
Epsom let three goals in over the

last 16 minutes to lose 4-2. Ernie Watkins missed a
penalty (held by keeper), and W.James made his debut and gave an
impressive

performance at
inside left.

Feb 50
Programme advises that the fund is nearly complete for the construction of
fence posts around the ground.

Feb 50 Doug
Kennell joins. Papers think it was Norman (previously Leytonstone and Sutton)
who had joined.

Also nicknamed
as Nat Kennell.

Feb 50 Ashtead
FC now at Ashtead Rec, Barnett wood Lane, Ashtead.

Feb 50 Fred
Looseley is at Guildford still

Feb 50
Reference to the club offices at West Street, which were adjoining the
dressing rooms.

4/2/50 4-1
down by HT. Lost 5-1 at Eastbourne. Tommy Wright scored, but Eastbourne
Gazette says Dymott. Shot

deceived
everyone and dribbled in at far post. I will continue to credit this to
Wright, as home papers are happy with BOOK.

11/2/50 Rooke
returns to the squad after getting married. Alan Hodges promoted from
reserves.

11/2/50
Reuben Leverington misses penalty but first win since Woking, and the first
league win since Walton on 27/8/49.

18/2/50 Missed
chances against Worthing led to an unjust defeat with R.Wood getting HT for
Worthing.

Feb 50 Epsom
appeal to Sutton United for spare players. Denis Ford leaves Sutton and joins
Epsom shortly afterwards.

Feb 50 Future
player Reg Walker signs amateur forms for Portsmouth

Feb 50 Future
player Peter Wood signs for Charlton Athletic from Banstead Athletic.

25/2/50 Denis
Ford makes debut v Windsor & Eton. Also Reg Hunt back after 20 games out
with a broken arm.

Unfortunately
he then breaks his collarbone in his first match back after 85 minutes!

Denis Ford
was described by Wilf Smith ex-committee member as "a very very good
player". He marked him out for special

comment.

Feb 50 Tommy
Rochester at Surbiton

Feb 50 Lionel
Hanton at Dorking

Mar 50 Peter
Wood is at Banstead and signs Amateur forms for Charlton

4/3/50 Doug
Kennell unavailable due to long standing works side commitment.

11/3/50
Reported in Herald that Tommy Wright is getting hassle from the crowd.

18/3/50 This
crowd of supporters for the friendly with Fulham 'A'. Epsom hold a 3-0 lead,
but only draw 3-3.

Fulham 'A' had
two pros playing, Cliff Thomas & Peter Docherty.

Also a
reference to a "Hill" playing, but unlikely to be Jimmy, as he was
apparently at Brentford before joining Fulham in 53.

24/3/50
Reported in Herald that the club were looking at a strip of land adjoining
the ground (presume opposite the stand)

and they were
proposing to purchase this and turn the pitch around 90 degrees, with the
station end goal (side!) was to

be banked up
to take a stand. Ground was then to be used as a borough sports arena, but it
never happened.

25/3/50
Newcomer F Reid makes his debut at Walton & Hersham. Only 15!!

He was a
member of the Fulham Ground staff and played at left back.

AFA Senior
Cup Semi-Final at Epsom on 1/4/50. London Univ v Catford Wanderers (previous
winners in 1933) 2-2 draw.

Replay
required the following week, allegedly at Epsom, but unlikely to have been at
Epsom unless it was on Easter

Monday 10th
April and there is no evidence of this. Prog (33) Y.

Apr 50 Len
Lowder, Cecil Weller and B Arblaster at Leatherhead

1/4/50 Epsom
win 2-1 at Harrow Boro in a friendly. They trailed early and at HT, but two
goals in last 12 minutes from

Watkins and
Wright, pinched the game. Wright winner in final minute.

7/4/50 Pryce
makes debut in goal. Sid Faggetter scores for Erith v Epsom.

7/4/50 North
Surrey Minor League Cup Final @ Epsom 11am. Wandle Athletic v Richmond Town.

8/4/50
Uxbridge lead 3-1 at HT and win 6-2. W Hill HT.

8/4/50 I have
managed to get hold of a list of autographs from the match between the two
teams. I don't have a line up for

this match but
as there are 11 autographs it is fairly clear that these were the ones who
played at Uxbridge.

The autographs
are Vic Legrand, A.Graham, E.Dukelow, LW Golding, I.Hughes, K.Allan, EJ Hunt,
J.Cashman,

R.Orford,
R.Chenery, F.Adey

However THE
BOOK says Warwick scored in this match despite not being one of the eleven
signatories. I have added 12

for now and
the BOOK does not have any line up for this match.

It is also
possible that twelve travelled but Warwick played and had to leave early so
didn't sign his autograph, while one of

these 11 was
in fact the reserve. For now, all 12 are included.

15/4/50
Gravesend & Northfleet were unbeaten in London League since xmas and
pinch a late equaliser in a friendly.

18 year old
R.Jackson plays at right back.

22/4/50
Advertiser and Herald differ on fourth goal. Ad says Graham, but the better
Herald report says Denis Ford.

BOOK doesn't
know so I will go with the better Herald report.

22/4/50 also this date we had a Pritchard in goal. Regular
reserve player AC Pritchard had been around for a few years and I believe

he stepped in
to help for this friendly so have allocated him this appearance.

May 50 Future
manager Doug Whitehead coaching Richmond Town to League and Cup double in N.
Surrey Minor League

3/5/50 North
Surrey Minor League win 3-2 v Epsom & Ewell League @ West Street.

6/5/50 Epsom
& Ewell League Cup Final Epsom OS v Westonian @ Epsom. 1-0 to EOS.

Geoff Porter,
Ron Ruffell, and Bert Pragnell (res) all played for EOS in this match. Prog
Issued - I have seen it.

6/5/50
Friendly 3-0 loss at Willesden to end the season - Prog Y. The BOOK doesn't
list this match and has no line up.

10/5/50 Epsom
Junior and future player Ron Ruffell selected for League team v North Surrey
Minor League @ Wandgas.

They lost 2-3,
and Bernard Pickard played for North Surrey Minor League.

May 50
Chairman Bill Townsend announces plans for 4 teams next year, but an A team
does not come to fruition for a few

years yet, and
then it is at the expense of the Juniors. He also mentioned a first class
coach for next year.

19/5/50 H
Lattimer writes in to Herald complaining about the state of the ground. The
club reply in June, see next season.

Address was
17 The Rise, Ewell. "Repairs and paint are sorely needed"
"Rusty corrugated iron and broken down fencing"

May 50 Epsom
have to apply for re-election for the first time in (33 year, say papers)
history.

Reserves:

Corinthian League Reserve Division

Position

13th out of 14

NC

1st

Hounslow

2-4

SIC

2nd

Carshalton Athletic

1-3

Gordon
Brogdale scored in the first 11 matches of the season. 14 goals!

20/08/49 Programme Line Up for this match: Colin
Batchelor, Jack Stackhouse, Don Butcher, Alan Hodges, K.Harding, Ray Chenery,

Bernard Smith,
Alec Graham, Jimmy Emblem, HV Watkins, Philip Frost

R.Carpenter
came in for Harding, Bernard Smith came in for Davis and Gordon Brogdale came
in for Emblem and scored twice.

20/8/49 Lost
3-5 at home to Chesham on the opening day of the season.

27/8/49 3-0
down by HT but Gordon Brogdale reduced the deficit in the second half at
Walton & Hersham. Lost 3-1.

27/8/49 The
BOOK only lists ten players for this match.

3/9/49 No game
for Reserves. Meant to play at Edgware but their first team had an FA Cup
game.

10/9/49 Winners of Neale Trophy match away to Hounslow is
at home to Erith & Belvedere or Uxbridge in next round. We lose 4-2.

10/9/49 Programme reports that Gordon Disborough came in
as Colin Batchelor was on army duty. Also Harry Simmonds played

his first game
of the season and was impressive. The BOOK says Batchelor played but must be
wrong.

14/9/49
Midweek game in Carshalton Memorial Cup at Carshalton v Carshalton F.C. but
finished 2-2 and a replay would be

required in
April 1950. Game was infact abandoned with seven minutes remaining in the
match. Game played at Colston Avenue.

Allan and
Disborough played but the rest were Reserves. The BOOK makes no mention of
this match.

17/9/49 No game for Reserves as we were meant to travel to
Grays but they had to switch an FA Cup tie against Colchester Casuals.

24/09/49
Programme Line Up for this match: Colin Batchelor, Don Butcher, Ken Allan, DB
Arblaster, Alan Hodges, J.Sanders,

Ron Orford,
George Howison, Gordon Brogdale, Alec Graham, Bob McGregor (listed as J)

Simmonds came
in for Allan, Chenery for Howison and Davis for Orford.

The BOOK is
clearly wrong though as Chenery played for the first team at Erith this day.
I will leave that space blank for now.

24/9/49
Debuts expected for Ken Allan, Ron Orford, George Howison, and Bob McGregor
listed in programme as J.McGregor.

24/9/49 Still
lost 3-2 at home to Edgware. Fourth straight loss to open the season.

1/10/49 First
point of season in a 4-4 home draw with Worthing.

8/10/49
Promising start v Walton & Hersham at West Street but "faltered
towards the end" to lose 4-3.

15/10/49 Drew
3-3 at Uxbridge in a League game.

22/10/49 Programme Line Up for this match: Gordon
Disborough, Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan, Ron Orford, Alan Hodges, Wally Warwick,

Fred Chitty,
Alec Graham, Gordon Brogdale, George Howison, Bob McGregor

DB Arblaster
came in for Orford who was with the first team.

22/10/49 a Brogdale lob was headed in by McGregor for the
opening goal against Norbury in Surrey Intermediate Cup at West Street.

An injury to a Norbury player WIILS left them with ten men
for fifteen minutes before he returned as a passenger. Graham then
scored

from a Howison pass just before HT and Chitty made it 3-0
before they scored their goal. Chitty and Brogdale then scored one more

each soon
after to win 5-1.

29/10/49 2-0 down with twenty minutes remaining but drew
2-2 at Grays. We were 2-0 down at HT and we had a goal scored but then

disallowed.
Brogdale got the first from the spot for handball even though Johnson had
already "scored" it was pulled back. Then

Graham
equalised from 15 yards.

05/11/49 Programme Line Up for this match: Gordon
Disborough, Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan, Ray Chenery, Alan Hodges, Wally Warwick,

Bernard Smith,
Alec Graham, Gordon Brogdale, R.Johnson, Bob McGregor

5/11/49
Reserves led 1-0 at HT but lost 5-1 to Hounslow. Bernard Smith made first
appearance, promoted from the juniors.

Brogdale had
scored after McGregor hit the post but we fell apart in the second half.

12/11/49 Two
goals for Carshalton in the first ten minutes. Brogdale reduced the arrears
but it was 3-1 before a Brogdale mispen

15 minutes
from time. Three changes enforced due to injury said programme.

19/11/49 Epsom
lose 6-3 to Eastbourne at the Saffrons.

26/11/49 Programme Line Up for this match: Gordon
Disborough, Eric Dukelow, L.Burton (R?), J.Worth, Alan Hodges, Ernie Telford,

Alan Davis,
R.Johnson, Gordon Brogdale, Wally Warwick, Fred Chitty

H.Kerr
replaced J.Worth and Bob McGregor came in for Telford.

26/11/49 Slough game abandoned after 40 minutes due to bad
light. 2-0 down after 15 minutes. Prog (15) Y. 40 minutes each way.

After 3/12/49
game the BOOK stops recording the lineups for this season. Annoying.

31/12/49 Lost
2-1 on the club's first visit to Stag Meadow to a late goal for Windsor &
Eton.

7/1/50 No game
for Reserves as Edgware have a Cup replay.

14/01/50 Programme Line Up for this match: Gordon
Disborough, Eric Dukelow, R.Burton, R.Chenery, Alan Hodges, Jackie Collins,

L.Crawford,
Vic Legrand, Gordon Brogdale, C.Jessop, Fred Chitty

14/1/50 5-5
draw with Eastbourne reserves saw Brogdale and Crawford score twice, and a
Disborough pensave. Epsom were 3-1

up at HT but
then trailed 3-5 before recovering to draw.

21/01/50 Programme Line Up for this match: Gordon
Disborough, Eric Dukelow, H.Ellis, R.Chenery, Alan Hodges, Wally
Warwick,

Jackie
Collins, Vic Legrand, Gordon Brogdale, C.Jessop, Fred Chitty

21/1/50 Lost
4-0 at home to Grays Athletic.

28/1/50 No
game for Reserves.

04/02/50
Programme Line Up for this match: Colin Batchelor, Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan,
Reg Hunt, Alan Hodges, Wally Warwick,

Jackie
Collins, Ray Chenery, Harry Rooke, Vic Legrand, Fred Chitty

4/2/50 Gordon
Brogdale mispen (MISS) v Uxbridge Res in 1-1 draw. Reg Hunt returned from
injury and we had most of the play.

11/2/50 First
league win of season 3-2 at Chesham.

18/2/50 Paper Line up: Advertiser - Disborough, Dukelow,
Allen, Hunt, Chenery, Warwick, Collins, Graham, Brogdale, Legrand, Birbeck

25/2/50
Reserves win 11-3 v Windsor & Eton with Brogdale and L Birbeck getting
HT's. Windsor & Eton were "swamped"

25/2/50 Paper Line up: Advertiser - Disborough, Dukelow,
Allen, Legrand, Hodges, Warwick, Collins, Graham, Brogdale, Johnson, Birbeck

4/3/50
Maidenhead defeat Epsom 6-2 but it was 1-1 at HT.

4/3/50 Paper Line up: Advertiser - Disborough, Dukelow,
A.N. OTHER, Legrand, Hodges, Chitty, Collins, Graham, Brogdale, Johnson,
Birbeck

11/3/50
Brogdale scored at Slough in our 2-1 defeat and now has 21 for the season
says programme.

11/3/50 Paper Line up: Advertiser - Disborough, Dymott,
Hudson, Legrand, Hodges, Chitty, Collins, Cutter, A.N. OTHER, Graham, Birbeck

18/3/50 Paper Line up: Advertiser - Disborough, Dukelow,
Dymott, Hodges, Chenery, Warwick, Orford, Graham, Brogdale, Legrand, Chitty

08/04/50 Programme Line Up for this match: Gordon
Disborough, J.Knight, Reuben Leverington, R.Carey, Alan Hodges, R.Johnson,

Fred Chitty,
Alec Graham, R.Greenfield, Vic Legrand, R.Birbeck (probably L)

8/4/50 Erith
& Belvedere are defeated 2-1 at West Street.

10/04/50
Programme Line Up for this match: Gordon Disborough, Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan,
Alan Hodges, Ray Chenery,

Wally Warwick,
Ron Orford, Alec Graham, Gordon Brogdale, Vic Legrand, Fred Chitty

10/4/50 Maidenhead win the Easter Monday game at West
Street 3-2. I had originally thought this game ended 3-1 but Mark Smith

the Maidenhead United historian has shown me a match
report which advises that Epsom scored a second goal a minute from time.

We went behind after 30 to a 30 yard drive but equalised
after 32. The visitors went ahead after 49 and extended the lead after 64.

Seeing as the History book that I got this information
from was completed by the Secretary and that the 1-3 score balances with
the

final league table, maybe the Secretary missed the late
goal and recorded the score wrongly as 3-1? Certainly Maidenhead's
results

tie up with their goals for and against based on the 3-1
score too, but I can confirm that the Maidenhead report confirms 3-2 to
Maidenhead

but appears to
have been officially recorded by the league as 3-1.

24/4/50 Reserves defeat Carshalton F.C. after extra time
in Carshalton War Memorial Cup. Played at Colston Avenue, Carshalton Athletic
FC.

Neale Trophy
presented by Walton & Hersham to celebrate C.R. (Jack) Neale's selection
for Olympic Team in 1948.

Juniors:

Epsom & Ewell League Division 1

First season for reformed juniors since 30's.

League
Secretary DM Lane, Hurstcourt, 16 Seymour Avenue. Tel: Ewell 4214.

Home matches
at Court Recreation Ground, Epsom

Position

?? Out of 10

LC

2nd

PO Engineers

1-6

1/9/49 the
Juniors play a trial match against Wandgas Juniors and win 3-0. Venue
unknown.

As a trial
this is not an official match.

Sunnyside
Athletic playing at Fetcham Grove, Leatherhead.

1/10/49 Taylor (2) and Smith scored v Epsom Old Scholars
in their first league match of the season. L 3-4 HT 1-2. Herald says Smith's

goal was an
own goal. Check Advertiser

15/10/49
Taylor (2) and Baker scored v PO Telecoms. W3-1. HT 1-1.

12/11/49 No
game for Juniors

Nov 49
Programme inc 12/11/49 advises we have played 6 games W2 D1 L3 but we have
only played 5 at this point.

19/11/49
Westonian (H) is not played.

26/11/49 Epsom
O.S. (A) is not played.

3/12/49 No
game for Juniors

17/12/49 No
game for Juniors

24/12/49
Surbiton Town (H) is not played.

21/1/50
Programme advises that we won 4-1 at Bookham but that it was 1-1 at full time
so there must have been extra time.

Unless they
meant 1-1 at HT! Irwin is an outside left. Epsom Herald suggests that we were
meant to be the home team.

4/2/50 won 6-4
at Surbiton Town but 0-3 at HT!

4/3/50 Bernard
Smith scores in a 1-1 draw at Epsom Old Scholars.

25/3/50 Epsom
lose 2-1 to Cuddington Park. This was probably our fifteenth game, although
it is possible that we lost our

fifteenth
match by 2-1 the week before. This is unlikely though as the table includes
25/3 which means all three missing

results were
played after this date, if at all.

Cuddington Pk
finished their matches on 15/4 v Westonian W3-1.

Herald says
Cuddington Pk record was 16 - 1 - 1, but they had drawn 2 by 18/2/50 table.

28/7/49 Train
crash at Epsom station 2 of 4 lines are blocked for nearly 12 hours. 7.10
from Effingham to London Bridge

collided with
the 6.55 from Waterloo. Fortunately both were going slowly and the casualty
list was minimised due to the

new steel
construction of the trains. There was a slight fire in one of the carriages,
but no fatalities.

Jan 50 Horton
Light Railway sold for £8,371. Tank engine "Hollymore" used to
travel from Ewell West along Chessington

Road towards
Horton Hospital. Built in 1905 renamed HLR in 1909 when LCC took it over and
erected fencing. A couple of

years
previously it had been derailed by youngsters. It never carried passengers.

March 50
Wimbledon's stand is now repaired after bomb damage in the war. It would
remain until the ground was

demolished in
2002. South Stand.

March 50
Kingstonian's reserve pitch is to be re-sown. It was lost to the war effort
and had been allotments since 1942.

The main pitch
was given back in 1945, and they will now get to use the reserve pitch again.