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Position 13th out of 14

FAC

Not Entered

AC

4q

Dagenham

0-1

LC

2nd

Hounslow

1-5

SSC

1st

Corinthian Casuals

1-7

Home
Ground:

West Street, Ewell

Club Colours

Light and Dark Blue quarters

President

Alderman G.C.A.Mann

Chairman

Mr Bill (W.V.) Townsend

v-c

Mr F.M Stewart Nicknamed "Mac" ?

Manager

Selection Committee

Secretary

Mr Sid (S.H.) Herbert

asst

Mr R.J.Scott

Herbert address 51 Hazon Way, Epsom

Treasurer

Mr A.M.Thompson

asst

Mr W.J.Bowe

Publicity
Secretary

Mr A.R. Amos

Committee

WJ Johnson, Sid Bristow, Ted Wheal, G Stringer,
RH Gurr, LA Prince, D Rice, HG Wright

Fred Chitty, B Evans, GJ Osborne, H
"Don" Proctor, JE Greenleaf, DM Lane

B Evans expelled at meeting 10/7/50, replaced
by J.Thompson

All the above
were elected at the AGM on 21/6/50.

Reserves
Manager Ron Stringer

Juniors
Manager: Fred Chitty

Additional
First and second team records in THE BOOK

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

Walton &
Hersham and Windsor & Eton left league, replaced by Maidstone United and
Tilbury

June 50 Sid
Herbert, Secretary, is also President of new Junior club Court Athletic.

June 50 New
coach is to be joining Epsom. Billy Williams, ex-Sheff Wed, Southend and
Leyton Orient player

who was until
recently coach at St Albans. Has recently completed 2 FA coaching courses and
is due

for another
this season with Walter Winterbottom.

AGM Annual
Report is dated 12th June 1950 - To be held at the Clubhouse - Copy Y

AGM 21/6/50
reveals a last minute hitch over the coach position, and Williams will not be
joining.

Apparently he declined for personal reasons. Williams
would end up as Manager of Barking and Leyton over the years to come.

Syd Faggetter,
formerly with Redhill, Sutton, and Erith will be joining as player/coach says
Chairman.

He was
described as "a ginger fellow"

AGM announces
that a club deficit of £204 has been reduced to £18. A.M.Thompson referred to
losing about

£30-£40 on
friendly matches, advising that "they would always be a liability"

Harry Hawke
presided over meeting.

21/6/50 AGM
invited Mayor of Epsom & Ewell Alderman G.C.A. Mann to become President
of the Club. He was

already a
Vice-president, and accepted position in July. Knew former Chairman Albert
Tuck, as they were in a firm

of Solicitors
Tuck & Mann, who were situated over Lloyds Bank in the Epsom High Street,
and very near to where

Charles Pettett
worked at 58-62 High Street, where Southern Counties Radio now is.

Actually, George Mann's grandson Michael advises that he
had no connection with Tuck and Mann, who still exist today as part of TWM

Solicitors with branches across Surrey. This Mann was
Sidney Edgar Mann and I think I may have put two and two together here and

got five!

Also at AGM it
was advised that finance was low partly because the London League fined them
£50 for leaving

I presume they
must have left for Corinthian League late in season. Attendances of 4,000
were expected regularly!

Money received
this year was £615 for cup and friendly gates, Programmes £125, League gates
£476, and

season tickets
£64. Payments out were player refreshments £217, cup and friendly matches
£257, Stationery

£179, and
travel expenses £111

Thanks were
also given to Len Anderson, Mrs Hicks, Mrs Parr, Mr & Mrs Stewart and Ted
Wheal.

Chairman Bill
Townsend was a long serving member of the club. According to Ray Chenery and
Geoff Porter, he

used to live
at Woodcote Side, and worked at West Park Hospital (probably - not totally
certain which hospital).

He wore
glasses, and did a lot of scouting for Epsom. He scouted Geoff Porter while
he was with Epsom Old

Scholars, and
brought him to Epsom.

According to
Ray Chenery, Syd Faggetter was bald by the time he joined, so it was hard to
tell if he was ginger or

not! He told
Ray off once for scoring one of his two goals this season, as he was in a
better position. Was Syd

on a bonus?

Alderman George Charles Adrian Mann - Mayor of Epsom &
Ewell in 1951. Freeman of the Borough in 1967 and also a Justice of the

Peace in the fifties. Married Hilda Chance in the fifties
after his first wife died in February 1952. Chance was connected with
the

ironmongers and they advertised in many programmes. He
lived at "the big house on the Hill" which was Grove House in West
Street

and his descendants lived there until 2016. He then lived
in 116 Stoneleigh Park Road and also lived in Angmering and Tayles Hill,

Ewell. He had connections with Epsom & Ewell Harriers
and covered a large area of sporting interests. Mann died on 22/10/1977
in

Ewell and was
born in Camberwell on 09/07/1891.

Information
provided by Michael Mann his grandson who now lives in Luxembourg.

Mann was also
the first Chairman of the Governors at NESCOT in 1963 remaining as Governor
Emeritus.

SCFA AGM at
Wimbledon on 22/6/50 mentions Bill Cutter being selected for Surrey in
previous year, and

receiving his
County cap and badge. Also a long service award given to Charlie (HC) Pettitt
for Epsom.

Not sure why,
as he doesn't appear to still be involved at this stage.

June 50
Following stormy Supporters AGM, ATJ Hall 50 Woodlands Road is to be
Temporary Secretary

although WC
Taylor is still around, and he was Sec before and after, so not sure here.

2 officers
resigned and some committee members too, blaming lack of support from the
parent club. However

no-one wanted
their jobs. Only 9 were there in total. Bill Townsend offered his support,
and was very

courteous in
spite of some harsh questioning from WC Taylor.

H.L.Hayward a
v-c of the club writes in response to H Lattimer's letter published 19/5/50
complaining about

the standard of
the ground, but this was blamed on Epsom Town and the war time situation.

July 50 W
Bromley, D Rice, and H Wright (2 of which were committee members) explained
why they were

season ticket
holders yet not members of the supporters club. Clearly there was a big
divide here.

July 50
Reference to Tooting & M President 82 year old George Mather being
Chairman of Mitcham Wanderers

for ten years
before they merged with Tooting Town.

July 50 Freddie
Boatwright joins club from Erith to remain with Faggetter.

July 50 New
player Bobby Musto (18).

According to
Ray Chenery, Musto was a popular player, and along with Fred Aldred were the
characters of the

side. Also,
Ray remembered he was "well endowed", and along with Reg Walker,
and Ken Elbrow, had no trouble

with the
ladies!

July 50 Jan
Sorensen quite football for business reasons, but ends up at Sutton. Stan
Scott also leaves, and his

father Gordon
leaves the Committee.

July 50 Mick
Colwell joins from Southall or Redhill and becomes club captain.

Aug 50 Pat
Jordan joins from Surbiton Town.

Public trials
on 1/8/50 - 3/8/50 - 10/8/50

July 50
Banstead complete move to Merland Rise from Tattenham Way. Rented. First game
16/9/50 beat

Worcester Park
4-2. 18/11/50 Official opening of ground in a 7-2 win over Malden Town.

12/8/50
Possibles v Probables "A sizeable crowd" at the trial.

19/8/50 Ray
Chenery scores Epsom's second goal and the Tilbury keeper collided with the
post and knocked

himself out,
but recovered to continue.

Aug 50 Colin
Batchelor leaves for Colchester, but is in goal for Grays Athletic by
November!.

Aug 50 Croydon
Rovers move to the Mitcham Stadium. They only survive one season before
folding.

Official
inauguration of ground on 23/9/50 lost 0-4 to Headington: Att 2,500.

Len Lowder
plays in first game for Croydon Rovers, and Ken Elbrow played regularly for
them before re-joining Epsom

next season.
Future player Reg Walker was also listead as an original member having joined
from Sutton United.

Aug 50 New
white concrete posts are completed and now surround the ground. Probably the
same posts that

were there at
the end. The work had taken a while to replace wooden palings around the
ground sometimes

work had even
been done by torchlight. The posts had steel tubing inside them and were
planted by Chalky White!

Aug 50 Jackie Collins leaves for Kingstonian after a
couple of years. Aged 30. He is referred to in Surrey Comet as P.Collins.

Was with
Leatherhead from pre-war until 1948 (excl war) before joining Epsom.

Aug 50 mention
of new Chairman for Supporters club Mr Aikman. New Treasurer Mr Ayling.

19/8/50
Reference to Treasurer AM Thompson being in the club office on Saturday
afternoons. This was next to

the old
changing rooms.

26/8/50 a coach
and a half runs to Slough.

26/8/50 Malden
Town's first home game at their new ground in Manor Park. Also their first
SSL match.

Sept 50
Kingstonian disown their own Supporters Club!

Sept 50 future
player Johnny Blizzard is still at Kingstonian

2/9/50 FA Cup
this day but Epsom do not appear to have entered for some reason, despite big
crowds recently. Why?

2/9/50 Player
Profile (Number 2) on Ray Chenery. Was born, attended school, and played
football all in West

Street! Joined
in 46/47 and proved a useful utility player. A very reliable player and a
good club man.

9/9/50 Future
player Bill Goddard scores twice for Edgware v Epsom.

No club notes
in Edgware programme due to a printing dispute

16/9/50 Player
Profile (Number 3) on Ernie Watkins. Longest serving player joined straight
after the war, and

played centre
half for the first three seasons. Can play wing half or centre forward. A
very consistent player and

tough tackler,
Ernie can be relied upon to play a clean and sporting game.

23/9/50 Tommy
Rochester scores twice for Surbiton Town v Epsom.

23/9/50 Devas Institute play Worcester Park in an Amateur
Cup tie at West Street this day. K.O. unknown as Reserves were at home.

30/9/50 Player
Profile (Number 5) on Jack MacDonald. Joined from PO Engineers in Aug 48.
Originally an inside

forward, he
has become a very useful full back. A deliberate footballer who remains calm
and collected under

the heaviest
pressure. Was club captain until this year when Mick Colwell took over. Rep
Honours: London League.

30/9/50 Heavy
rainfall and a soggy day saw Epsom edge past Maidenhead 3-2 after being 1-1
at HT. Epsom

went a goal
behind on 30 minutes, but Musto equalised right on HT, and although Syd
Faggetter mispen (SAVE)

on 48, Musto
scored again on 51, with Tommy Wright on 71 minutes, and a late consolation
for the visitors.

Referee was
future World Cup referee Ken Aston (Ilford).

Sept 50 Bill
Wiles is at Guildford FC

Oct 50 Roy
Dymott is at Leatherhead

Oct 50 Printing
dispute - limited reports in Advertiser and Herald, and Epsom programmes too.

21/10/50 Epsom
trailed Chertsey 4-1 at HT but recover to win 5-4 with Wright getting the
winner.

28/10/50 Epsom
lead Devas 3-0 at HT but they fight back. Finishes 3-2. Devas play in Merton.

Nov 50
Carshalton Ath had originally protested to the FA regarding Pat Jordan's
eligibility during the AC 3q

match that
Epsom won. Turns out it was a different Jordan, and Carshalton withdrew the
protest in a

sportsmanlike
manner, and also wrote to Epsom to let them know.

Nov 50 First
time in Amateur Cup 4q since the mid thirties.

11/11/50 Epsom
hold Hounslow to 2-1 for a while, until three goals in ten minutes midway
through second half.

18/11/50 Lots
of chances for both sides but Dagenham scrape through by the only goal.

25/11/50
Future players Trevor Hall and Alan Parker both play for Tooting & M v
Brighton in FAC 1. Lost 2-3.

25/11/50 Surrey
Comet says that Hawkers will be tough opponents because of their permit
player Alex

Davidson, a
former Chelsea and Palace inside forward, but he is ineligible anyway!

25/11/50 Game v
Hawkers abandoned after 81 minutes due to fog.

Surrey Comet
says that game should never have been abandoned with the score at 6-1 with
only 9 minutes left,

and that Epsom
were robbed. Advertiser says just seven minutes remained.

The Hawker
Sports Centre was the same site that Leyland Motors used in the twenties
until 1948 when Hawkers

took it back
over. It was also used for first class cricket occasionally and although
there has been development

on the site of
the Aircraft Factory which was demolished in 1990, the sports ground remains
in 2012.

2/12/50 Epsom
win the replayed match 4-3 at Hawkers.

From 7/10/50 to
9/12/50 inc Epsom remained unchanged for 10 straight games!

Nov 50 Frank
and Ted Goodall are both at Ashtead in the Sutton & District League

Dec 50
Reference to Handbook of Amateur Football by Norman Acland containing profile
of Harry Hawke who is Secretary

and Treasurer
of London League

Dec 50 Gordon
Brogdale plays for Erith & Belvedere

Dec 50 Gerry
Saffery promoted from Reserves. Formerly with Southall.

Dec 50
reference to future player Frank Vernon being the third team centre forward
at Kingastonian. Aged 19.

Scoring list in
16/12/50 programme. Correct according to my records.

16/12/50 Bobby
Musto injured rib 20 minutes. 10 men, and out for a while afterwards.

16/12/50 Epsom
very unlucky and almost deserved a draw say papers. However, they lost 7-1!

25/12/50 Kick
offs at 11am for firsts and reserves

25/12/50 Bill
Cutter requires 4 stitches in a head wound and is absent for half of the game
returning in the last 15

minutes.
Carshalton mispen (post) in 1st half, and Gordon Cairns scored their fifth
goal.

26/12/50 Cutter
still injured but still played inside right instead. Cairns scored 2nd goal
for Carshalton Ath.

26/12/50
Arguments in stand between Carshalton fans and Epsom supporters. Papers say
it was Carshalton's

fault, as they
were losing!

6/1/51
Corinthian Casuals visit and win 7-1. Their first season at the Oval, but
this game was at West Street.

Jan 51 Norman
Ambrose is at Kingstonian.

6/1/51 Tommy
Wright and Boatwright both hit the bar. Also debut for Michael Talbot-Butler
whose father was a

pre war Vice
Chairman. See 35/36 notes. Michael write in to local papers in Nov 82. Living
in Northwich aged 51.

6/1/51 Papers
say Disborough is poor and should be replaced in goal by Bristow. He is then
replaced. Papers

say this
highlights the problem between the supporters and the Selection Committee.

Jan 51
"NO LITTLE WEMBLEY AT EWELL" The Council drops plans for a large
sport centre to be build at

Cherry
Orchard, London Road. It was to have 6,000 capacity and grandstand for 800,
including tennis courts

bowling green
and hockey pitch. Plan submitted 4 years ago, but stopped by green belt
restrictions.

No mention of
who would have used the ground.

Jan 51 ATJ
Hall Supporters Club Treasurer says that there are very few coaches because
of lack of interest.

There are only
200 in the supporters club and he would like to know why the other 1,000
aren't members. This

indicates an
average attendance of 1,200 at the time.

Jan 51
Advertiser jokes that thieves who broke in to Sutton United would not have
been looking for trophies as

it is some
years since they won any.

Jan 51 Eddie
Francis signs from Leatherhead. Had also played for Sutton, Bishop Auckland
and Blackpool as an

amateur. Had
been captain at Leatherhead.

Jan 51 Mick
Colwell leaves the club after a disagreement with the management. Den
Goldsmith is captain now.

13/1/51 Tommy
Wright scored v Grays, only for the referee to consult with the linesman and
change his mind.

13/1/51 Ernie
Watkins injured 2nd half. 10 men. Prog says it was surprising there were not
more goals than 11!

Epsom had
pulled it back to 4-5 before two more late goals for Grays.

Jan 51 former
player and future Manager Fred Chitty playing for Dorking.

20/1/51
fixture confusion as both Epsom and Carshalton thought they were travelling
to Worthing this day, but

Epsom were in
fact due to travel to Tilbury instead.

20/1/51 Bobby
Musto returns after his rib injury. Don Goldsmith takes over as Captain for
this trip.

Jan 51 Les Keen
joins from RAF but only plays three games. Scores four goals though.

Jan 51 Epsom
Stable Lads (1)2 - (0)3 Newmarket Stable lads. Played at West Street.

Attended by
Mayor and Mayoress.

27/1/51 John Cashman makes first appearance in goal for
firsts this season. Occasionally but wrongly referred to as T.Cashman.

Jan 51 Edgar E
Jeffery died. He was a regular in the Ewell side of the late 1890's along
with many others listed.

He originally
played for Epsom on the field with his brother Evan, but was at Ewell in the
mid 1890's as a keeper.

He was listed as 30 years old in the 1901 census, so must
have been 79 or 80 when he died. Cremated at Streatham 17/01/51.

Only a couple
of months before this, another occasional Ewell full back Reverend EV Bond
died too. Had been

Curate of Ewell
and was eventually Rector of Beddington.

Jan 51 Fred
Stenning joins Malden Town from Leatherhead

Jan 51 Cecil B
Weller (39) is new Coach at Leatherhead replacing Bill Whittaker - former
WIM, SUT, WOK and Epsom

Feb 51 Fred
Chitty is at Dorking

Feb 51 Gordon
Brogdale leaves for Faversham but returns later in season. Johnson also
leaves, while Cashman

thought about
it but stayed. Dukelow and Graham also leave, as they share a car!

Cashman had
joined from Hendon in 1949, while Brogdale had joined Epsom at 15 and been
the youngest

centre forward
in senior football at that age. They are referring to Epsom reserves in
London League Div 1.

Feb 51 Frank
Adey leaves for Carshalton Athletic, and Johnny O'Brien joins from Erith
& Belvedere.

Feb 51 Future
player Bill Wiles is at Woking.

Feb 51
Reference to Gordon Cairns joining Epsom at the age of 14 during War time.

3/2/51 First
win of the new year. Described as an amateur freak result as higher placed
Worthing are beaten 10-0

First double
figure score since the war and a Corinthian League record.

10/2/51 Future
players Bill Goddard and Bill Nuth are in the programme line up for visiting
Edgware but Epsom still win 3-1.

10/2/51 Also this day, presumably before this match the
Epsom Racing Lads had a football match at West Street this day with

Alderman George Charles Adrian Mann our President doing
the ceremonial kick off. I have a picture of this provided by his son

Michael. He was
Mayor this year too.

More problems
with supporters club, as 12 year old Alan Virgo says he has been told he is
too young to become

a member.
Kevin Henriques suffers the same problem. The case is taken up by Mr W
Sutherland who is the

Chairman of the
National Federation of Supporters Clubs.

Maybe as a
result, 4 coaches are taken to Maidstone for the 3-3 draw. HT for Dennis
Bower of Maidstone.

17/2/51
Maidstone - Maidstone captain was Gordon Jago, who would eventually sign
Trevor Lee and Phil Walker

24/2/51 Wernell
HT for Maidenhead in 1st half.

March 51 Future
player Henryk Mikrut is at Wycombe.

Mar 51
R.Francis and F.Chitty are at Dorking

10/3/51 Only
one coach goes to Chesham, and it isn't full.

10/3/51 Tommy
Cashman pensave 2nd half v Chesham, but still lost 8-3!

10/3/51
Supporters Club Dance at Granada Cinema 4 shillings or 4 shillings and
sixpence at the door.

17/3/51 Tommy
Cashman fractured finger. Ernie Watkins went in goal. Brentford 'A' had 10
pros playing.

17/3/51 Future Epsom players Pat Lynch, Glyn Hinshelwood
and Bobby Avis all play for Hendon in SF of Amateur Cup this day

v the mighty
Pegasus at Highbury and draw 1-1 but miss a penalty awarded in the last
moments for a foul on Avis.

Pegasus would
win the replay and go on to win the Cup in front of 100,000 at Wembley.

Mar 51
emergency meeting of first and second team players held at club and addressed
by Mac Stewart and

Ron Stringer.

Mar 51 mention
of a cup final being played between Carshalton St Andrews and Wallington
around the turn of the

century at
Harcourt Road, Wallington but in 1951 it had been covered by flats.

Mar 51 Mention
of Bill Cutter, being sandy haired.

23/3/51 Hounslow (H)(L) postponed for flooding, yet an
"interleague" match took place that afternoon! (see Juniors
comments)

I believe
programmes were issued for both games (33) + (34). I have seen neither
though.

24/3/51 Epsom
lose 7-1 at Hounslow BOOK says 12/5/51 but it has the games the wrong way
around. Probably

confused by the
postponement of the day before.

24/3/51 Den
Goldsmith was injured as was a passenger, although he went in goal for a
while as Cashman

reinjured his
finger.

26/3/51 Due to
travel to Grays but fixtures rearranged and we went to Edgware instead.

26/3/51 HT unk
v Edgware, but they scored two in each half. When did Epsom score theirs?

31/3/51 Epsom
pitch beats Erith say papers. Lowder played NOT Cashman as BOOK says.

7/4/51 Epsom arrive twenty minutes late, and start with
ten men, as O'Brien is a further ten minutes late. Committee not happy.

11/4/51 Easy
win for Eastbourne even though they were down to ten men shortly after HT, by
which time, it was

already 2-0. Eastbourne Herald has a LU, but it is a
little unreliable. They say Musto scored, and LU was: Cashman, Watkins,

Allen,
Rochester, Cutter, Cummings, Chamberlain, Coleman, Faggetter, Musto, Wright.

I am happy
with Cashman, Watkins, Cutter, Faggetter, Musto and Wright. Chamberlain is
probably Chenery, and

Allen may well
have played. However, Rochester was at Surbiton and I've never seen Cummings
or Coleman,

Check BOOK
again. I will put Allen and Faggetter in for now.

Eastbourne Chronicle also advises Rochester. It's possible
that he helped out for this match as the paper advises Epsom made many

changes. Match
was only 40 minutes each way.

17/4/51 and
19/4/51 Epsom hold more trials.

18/4/51 No
programme issued for Leatherhead Friendly this day.

Apr 51 Pitch
problems at West Street put down to the unpredictable rising of the Bourne.
"Happily a rarity."

Apr 51 E Hill
joins from Dorking, and makes debut on 28/4/51.

21/4/51 Surrey
Comet and Eastbourne Gazette says
Faggetter (2), Wright and Musto scored, not Boatwright.

BOOK is wrong.
He did not even play in the game as BOOK suggests.

Musto mispen
near the end, after Wright's 88th minute goal. Hookham booked for Eastbourne.

25/4/51 Epsom
Challenge Cup match v Leatherhead was a double header. No mention in THE BOOK
of

either game,
and papers only mention one of them at Epsom. Prog (39) mentions the first
one, a 2-2 draw on 18/4.

Dorking &
Leatherhead Advertiser refers to the other one, a 1-0 win for Leatherhead at
Fetcham Grove on 25/4

Surrey
Advertiser refers to a 1-1 draw at Leatherhead on the 18/04/51 but this match
was 2-2 it appears and was at Epsom.

This is a
completely different report! Bizarre!

28/4/51 Epsom
beat Guildford in Sportsmans Cup 3-1 and Alderman G.C.A.Mann presents trophy.

5/5/51 No
Boatwright or Musto v Slough. Both unavailable.

5/5/51 Epsom
& Ewell Lge v Croydon Minor Combination at West Street - won 4-1 with
Evans, Wales, Hitchcock

and Coghlin
selected from Youth team.

May 51 Possible
re-election again Ground is not one of the best and attendances are
disappointing.

12/5/51 Epsom
finish second from bottom and have to apply for re-election for the second
straight year.

Dodd,
Boatwright, Faggetter and Sorensen played.

No away wins
all season, yet scored at least one goal in every one of them.

Maidstone were
reserve champions, but were bottom of the main league!

12/5/51 Epsom
& Ewell League Cup Final between Sutton Juniors and West Ewell Juniors.
Sutton win 4-2 aet.

Game played at
West Street at 6.15. Epsom Juniors won League though, and received medals
afterwards.

Bernard Wales
captains League representative side through season. A class player says
Bernard Smith.

Apparently died
a year or two back (2003-04?) and had been a plumber.

19/5/51
Festival of Britain Match v Surbiton Town sees Hill mispen (post) and Lowder
pensave in 1st half too.

Query on
Sorensen playing. BOOK says he played, yet papers have him playing for Sutton
on same day.

Sorensen
actually guested the week before with Dennis Dodd. Hill played on 19/5
instead.

BOOK had a
complete line up for 12/5 but was missing Sorensen. I believe (although it is
not certain) that it

was Tommy
Wright who didn't play on 12/5, and should have been Sorensen instead.

Predicted line
up (19/5) was Lowder, Watson, Hoy, Farringdon, Baker (replaced by Steffens),
Wales, Hill, Coghlin,

Cutter,
Simmonds, Hitchcock. Simmonds was a West Ewell Ath Junior not an Epsom
Junior.

I don't yet
know if a programme was issued for this match, but its possible and if it
was, it would have been 42.

Reserves:

Corinthian League Reserve Division

Position

11th out of 14

Neale Cup

1st

Maidenhead Utd

1-4

SICC

1st

Croydon Adults

0-3

SIC

1st

Haslemere & S

0-2

26/8/50 All
played well against Slough with two goals in each half of our 4-0 win.

30/8/50 two semi-finals of the Carshalton War Memorial Cup
were due to be played this day. Epsom drew 1-1 with Old Westminster

Citizens while
Beddington Corner played Devas.

The Epsom
Herald is missing for this week (08-09-50) at Bourne Hall so check British
Library.

02/09/50
Programme Line Up for this match: John Cashman (listed as T), Eric Dukelow,
Ken Allan, Reg Hunt, Ray Chenery,

Wally Warwick,
Alec Graham, Frank Adey, Gordon Brogdale, Bobby Musto, Tommy Wright

This line up
was correct.

2/9/50 Res are
3-0 down at HT v Grays but win 4-3 with two from Gordon Brogdale, + Graham
and Adey (winner).

9/9/50 Johnny
Hoy makes first appearance for the club, wrongly listed as G.Hoy.

16/09/50
Programme Line Up for this match: John Cashman, Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan, Vic
Legrand, Ray Chenery,

Reg Hunt, Ron
Orford, Mike Talbot-Butler, Gordon Brogdale, Alec Graham, Frank Adey

This line up
was correct.

16/9/50 Chesham
United are defeated 4-0 at West Street. Frank Adey scores for the sixth
straight match.

23/9/50 Newcomers Ivor Hughes and Peter Norman both score
in our 3-0 home win over Edgware. Hughes played briefly last season.

14/10/50
Programme Line Up for this match: John Cashman, Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan, Reg
Hunt, Ray Chenery,

Wally Warwick,
Ron Orford, Alec Graham, Les Gilbert, Ivor Hughes, Vic Legrand

Frank Adey came
in for Warwick.

14/10/50 Epsom
are defeated 2-1 at Maidstone United.

11/11/50 Epsom
defeat Erith & Belvedere 1-0 with a first half goal from Alec Graham and
some great keeping from Bristow.

25/11/50 League
game v Maidenhead abandoned 82 minutes due to heavy fog. Leading 4-0

02/12/50 Programme Line Up for this match: John Cashman,
Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan, Wally Warwick, Ray Chenery, Frank Adey,

Alan Davis,
Mike Talbot Butler, Ivor Hughes, Alec Graham, Peter Norman

This line up
was correct.

2/12/50 Tilbury
win 2-0 at West Street.

9/12/50 16 year old Ray Ellis promoted from Juniors to
Reserves and played well in 2-1 defeat v Maidstone. "Shows
promise".

16/12/50 Programme Line Up for this match: Eric Bristow,
Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan, Reg Hunt, Ray Chenery, Wally Warwick,

Gerry Saffery,
Alec Graham, Ivor Hughes, Mike Talbot-Butler, Peter Norman

W.Johnson,
A.Davis and F.Adey come in for Dukelow, Allan (first team call up) and
Graham.

16/12/50 Epsom
draw 1-1 at home to Croydon Adults at West Street in Surrey Intermediate
Charity Cup.

25/12/50 Kick
offs at 11am for firsts and reserves

26/12/50 Lost
2-4 at Carshalton Athletic. BOOK says it was 27th December but I think this
is an error.

30/12/50
Croydon Adults (A) at Lloyd Park in SICC replay is not played this day.

20/01/51
Programme Line Up for this match: Len Lowder, Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan, Reg
Hunt, Bill Cutter, Wally Warwick,

Ivor Hughes,
Ray Chenery, A.Peachey, Les Keen, Peter Norman

Les Keen was
called up for the first team and was replaced by E.Rudman.

20/1/51 Epsom
draw 0-0 at home to Maidenhead United who played with ten men throughout due
to illness and injuries.

27/1/51 Both Len Lowder and Gordon Disborough were listed
as playing this day in the BOOK. I have put the latter on the wing for

now but will
check reports in locals.

3/2/51 Reserves
only field ten men v Croydon Adults and lose 3-0.

3/2/51 Only 7
players are listed in the BOOK.

17/2/51
Eastbourne deserved their victory at West Street but the conditions prevented
any good football.

24/02/51 Programme Line Up for this match: Gordon
Disborough, Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan, Ken Minter, Ray Chenery, R.Garner,

Alan Davis,
Mike Talbot-Butler, Reg Hunt, Pat Jordan, Tommy Wright

Ken Minter, Pat Jordan and Tommy Wright are replaced by
Hunt, R.Claxton and Peter Norman. Wright had a first team call up.

24/2/51
Hounslow crush Epsom 8-1 at West Street on the same day the firsts get beaten
7-1 over there!

3/3/51 No game
for Reserves.

10/03/51
Programme Line Up for this match: Len Lowder, Eric Dukelow, Ken Allan, Ken
Minter, Reg Hunt, R.Garner,

Alan Davis,
Mike Talbot-Butler, Gordon Brogdale, Don Ralph, Tommy Wright

Ken Minter and
Don Ralph were replaced by Ivor Hughes and Peter Norman.

10/3/51 Epsom
lose a friendly 4-3 at home to Barking Reserves. The BOOK says it was on
3/3/51 but this was an error.

17/3/51 Epsom Herald and Eastbourne Gazette say Eastbourne
won 2-0 at the Saffrons but the BOOK says 3-1 and provides

Warwick as the
scorer but is wrong. Eastbourne Gazette confirms score as 2-0 with a report.
HT 1-0.

24/3/51 Only 5
players are listed in the BOOK v Eastbourne and the date of the match was
wrong. It was 17/03/51.

24/3/51
Actually due to be at home to Worthing this day but fixture was p-p.

31/3/51 Only 8
players are listed in the BOOK.

7/4/51 Only 6
players are listed in the BOOK.

14/4/51 Only 8
players are listed in the BOOK supplemented by scorer K.Colman who was not
listed in the lineups.

14/4/51 I now have a copy report from the Maidenhead
Advertiser (thanks to Mark Smith) who advises the result was actually a

2-3 loss. It advises our goalscorers as Tommy Wright and
Ferdinando, but advises that all three players that THE BOOK advised

as scorers did all play. I will use this line up as it is
more reliable than mine, although if I add the score of 3-2 then Epsom's
League

tally doesn't
balance any more. However, it does look right so I will amend. Epsom led 2-0
at HT.

The BOOK
wrongly listed the "three" scorers as Hunt, Colman and
Talbot-Butler.

21/4/51 Only 5
players are listed in the BOOK for Corinthian Casuals match that was not
played on this date (see below).

21/4/51
programme advises that we defeated Eastbourne in the afternoon and followed
it up with a 1-1 draw

with Worthing
in the evening, but this looked wrong as BOOK advised that we played Worthing
on 7/4.

Advertiser confirms that we DID play Worthing on 21/04/51
after the Eastbourne game. The Corinthian Casuals friendly was NOT

played on that date. Maybe 7/4, maybe 28/4? There is now
an issue 36 missing unless we were at home on the 7th April so that

is where I
will place the Casuals match for now.

Worthing Herald also confirms that we will host Worthing
on 21/04/51 and they played Eastbourne on 07/04/51. BOOK is wrong.

21/04/51
Worthing (H) kick off at 5.30pm following the First team match at home to
Eastbourne.

2/5/51 Only 6
players are listed in the BOOK supplemented by scorer Haines who is not
listed.

THE BOOK IS
VERY UNRELIABLE AT THIS POINT - TREAT WITH CAUTION

2/5/51 Epsom
lose 7-1 at Slough according to my records, but the tables tally if it were
7-0. It may have been

reported
wrongly. The BOOK provides a scorer but is unreliable at this stage.

Epsom Herald
says it was 7-0. The BOOK is wrong.

3/5/51 final game of the season and E.Drake makes a debut.
This was the famous Ted Drake's son Edward, who would play a first team

game in a few years. He scores in a 3-2 win at Chesham
United which was originally scheduled for 28/04/51 but moved back.

3/5/51 I have a full line up for this 3-2 in at Chesham
United but Bucks Examiner says that Epsom arrived with seven and were lent
four

players, one
of whom scored! Check match report.

Juniors: Epsom
& Ewell League Division 1

Position 1st
out of 10

SMC

F

Chase of Chertsey

0-2

Surrey FA Handbook has this as a 4-1 defeat.
Wrong

LC

2nd

West Ewell Juniors

4-8+

11/11/50 No
game for Juniors as Sutton (L)(A) is p-p.

18/11/50 Wandle
Athletic were previous holders of Surrey Minor Cup.

9/12/50 Pear
Tree were unbeaten Redhill league leaders.

25/12/50
Bernard Wales plays for Epsom & Ewell League v Mitcham, Merton and Morden
League @ Mitcham

Stadium 11am.
Danny Evans was also previously selected.

Dec 50 Evans
and Bernard Wales are selected for the E & E League v Mitcham and Morden
League @ Croydon

Rovers on
25/12/50. Won 3-1

6/1/51 Reference to Epsom Juniors still winning and have
11 wins and a draw from their 12 matches. They won this day but v who?

13/1/51
Reference in prog to Juniors record. Current leaders of league, only dropping
one point.

27/1/51 Reference in Surrey Comet to Cuddington Park
beating Ewell Juniors 6-4 in a Division One match. There were no Ewell
Juniors

but there was
of course an Epsom Juniors. Was it v Epsom?

24/2/51 Juniors
win 5-1 at Banstead Juniors. HT 1-1. Coghlin (2), Blake, Smith, o.g.

3/3/51
Programme Line Up for this match: Ray Ellis, D.Forbes, William Wales, Danny
Evans, F.Potter, Bernard Wales,

Bernard Smith,
R.Taylor, Danny Coghlin, A.Blake, Johnny Hitchcock

3/3/51 Surrey Minor Cup SF @ West Street Epsom Juniors v
Ham and win 3-1. Prog 30 Y. Ham scored after 10 minutes but

Coghlin and
Evans made it 2-1 at HT and Coghlin added a third after 77 minutes.

23/3/51 Epsom
& Ewell League v Barnes and District. Evans, Wales and Coghlin selected.
Won 5-1 at West St.

Danny Evans is
living in Kent and recently celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary,
according to Bernard Smith.

Bernard Smith
is 72 or 73, born in 1933, and I met him at Geoff Porter's house in March
2006. He is also the uncle

of Chris Kelly,
future player with Epsom, Leatherhead, Tooting and Millwall. Very successful.

26/3/51
Probable Easter Monday friendly with Sutton United. Was this played?

31/3/51
Juniors win 19-0 v Bookham. Frost gets 6 and Coghlin gets 4, one of which is
his 50th of the season.

Probably a
record all time score for an Epsom team of any description.

14/04/51
Programme Line Up for this match: Ray Ellis, D.Forbes, William Wales, Danny
Evans, F.Potter, Bernard Wales,

Bernard Smith,
R.Taylor, Danny Coghlin, A.Blake, Johnny Hitchcock

14/4/51 SMC
Final Game originally planned for Dulwich on 5/5/51, but played at Epsom.
Lost 2-0 Prog = Y(37)

Visiting full
back fractured a leg too. Allen Batsford, future Walton & Wimbledon
manager was rumoured to play for

Chase, but he
isn't listed in the programme line up.

Chase were
rumoured to be a nursery side for Arsenal.

Alderman
Mann  presented the trophies. I have a
couple of pictures.

April 51 Johnny
Hitchcock (16) gets trial with Fulham Juniors this week

5/5/51 Epsom & Ewell Lge v Croydon Minor Combination
at West Street - 6.15pm k.o. - won 4-1 with Evans, Wales, Hitchcock

and Coghlin
selected from Youth team.

12/5/51 Epsom
& Ewell League Cup Final between Sutton Juniors and West Ewell Juniors.
Sutton win 4-2 aet.

Game played at
West Street at 6.15. Epsom Juniors won League though, and received medals
afterwards.

Bernard Wales
captains League representative side through season. A class player says
Bernard Smith.

Apparently died
a year or two back (2003-04?) and had been a plumber.

NOTE:
Reference to Hurst Park. It is rumoured that the West Street stand came from
there, and it was in

Graburn Way,
East Molesey, with New Road very close to it. I have found no evidence to
support this story and

have also read that it was constructed in 1925 when Epsom
went to West Street. Without doubt though a Hurst Park

grandstand
would see service for many years at Mansfield Town's Field Mill ground.