C O M M E N T S
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14th out of 16

FAC

1q

Tilbury

0-1

AC

3q

Tooting & M

0-5

Ath Div 2 Cup

2nd

Horsham

0-2

SSC

4q

Tooting & M

1-5

Home Ground:

West Street, Ewell

President

J.R.P.Martin

Chairman

George.L.Tarran

resigned 18/1/69

v-c Noel
Bell took over on a temporary basis in January.

Secretary

Bob (RC) Bell

George
lived at 92 Sunnybank, Warlingham with wife Mrs J

Treasurer

Malcolm Pickhaver

Epsom Advertiser wrongly called him Michael
Pickhaven originally

Tarran.

This had been wrongly reported in late July in
the Advertiser

Manager/Coach

Dave Fillery

Groundsman

Fred Goodenough

Committee: Ron
Jewell, Bill Inkpen, Wilf Smith, Len Cox, Chas McLoughlin, Derek Harper, Mrs
S.Bell

Supporters Club
Committee are President John Martin, Chairman Ron (RTA) Jewell, v-c Noel
Bell,

Secretary Mrs
SFB.Bell, Treasurer Len (LW) Cox. Committee: Mrs E.Wimshurst, Wilf Smith
(Social Secretary),

George Nathan (Bar Secretary), FW Garrett, RP Howell, Miss
Madge Easton, Miss Maryse Jewell, EC Mitchell, AN Jones

Floodlights
transported during the summer by Dave Fillery, John McNaught, Len Oakes, Ken
Ireland, and Colin Bell

Bob Bell
Secretary, and Noel Bell, vice chairman, also helped

The lights
never were erected, and were sold to Windsor in the end.

Programmes free
with admission this year. Admission is 2s 6d, with boys and pensioners at 1s
3d.

Jul 68 Ray
Colfar joins Wimbledon from Guildford City

Aug 68 Marc
Talmage joins Wimbledon

13/8/68 former
player Brian Coombes plays in a friendly for Epsom v Molesey. Joined from
Redhill.

Rod Webb also
joins from Leatherhead and plays in this match too.

Tony Williams joined Harrow Boro as player manager. Epsom
beat them 3-1 on opening day, and he quit after 3 months.

John McNaught
reappointed captain in Sept 68. Had been captain in 1966/67.

Aug 68 Richard
Kelly joins club. Brother of Chris, who left for Tooting in July.

Aug 68 former
player Bobby Russell is at Corinthian Casuals.

Aug 68 future
player Marc Talmage leaves Mascot Sports for Wimbledon. Mascot were
Wandsworth based.

Aug 68 former player Peter Deadman (24) leaves Dulwich
quoting business commitments but will return the following season.

Aug 68 future
player Steve Kember is at Crystal Palace.

Eddie Jones re
joins from Carshalton in Sept. Booked on first match back before game started
for marking the pitch!

Dave Legrice
joins. Previously with Tooting, Horsham, and Croydon Amateurs.

Alan Thompson
joins from Welbeck Utd in Aug 68. Gerry Rich joins from Molesey.

Malcolm Badelow
returns after nervous breakdown.

Johnny Eales,
Terry Self, and Ted Yorke all leave for Horsham, but Yorke returns before
start of season.

Self would
return later in the season too.

Wayne Lewis and
Derek Gale have not rejoined the club either.

24/8/68
Reference in programme to Len Oakes doing the signwriting by the bottom goal.
Were these the letters that

spelt out the
name of the club?

Dave Fillery's
uncle stepped in and "re-did" the club baths.

24/8/68
Reference to this being the first programme of the season, so no issue v
Horsham on 20/8/68.

Also reference
to some of the players going to Spain for a holiday.

Johnny Eales
plays for Horsham against Epsom 20/8/68 and 31/8/68 George Wakeling also
played on 31/8/68.

Sept 68 Peter
Deadman at Barking

Sept 68
reported that Larry Pritchard will be joining Hendon from Sutton but not
clear if this ever happened

2/9/68 Worthing arrived with the wrong kit, so had to play
in blue, while Len Oakes had to dash home to get yellow kit for

Epsom to play
in!

2/9/68
Supporters Club refers to the 400 Club. Run by Mr Harding, Mr Lucraft, Mr
Champion, and Mr Smith.

Entry is 10s
per month and only 400 shares.

Sept+Dec 68
Glyn Howells in goal for Frimley Green

7/9/68 Dave
Fillery unavailable due to a family wedding.

14/9/68 Ex
Epsom and future Epsom player Micky Iles captains Molesey v Epsom.

21/9/68 If we'd
beaten Tilbury in FAC it would have been Hillingdon Borough (H) - Tilbury
would lose 0-3

28/9/68 Ronnie Barton and Micky Iles are in the Molesey
side. Barton also scored for Banstead v Epsom the year before.

Cobham play at
Anvil Lane back in Oct 68. Ex-Epsom player Alan Barilli  played for Cobham v Epsom

Oct 68 Trevor
Wales plays for Ashtead

Oct 68 Peter
Kenchington joins for Carshalton Ath

12/10/68 AC v
BAC Weybridge (A) is p-p. Waterlogged. Played a week later.

26/10/68
Programme refers to the death of a long term supporter Tom Harris after a
long illness.

Chris Kelly
plays against us in Amateur Cup for Tooting 2/11/68 and SSC 21/12/68

2/11/68
following the Tooting & Mitcham match Ray Scott is loaned to Epsom but
doesn't play for the first team.

He is 24 and
6ft and was born in Doncaster and was a regular for T&M last season in
the Isthmian League.

Nov 68 Ted
Yorke joins Epsom & Ewell Harriers. Fiancée already a well known runner
for them.

Nov 68 future player Trevor Wales is selected for the
Surrey Senior League at Hampton on 18/11/68 v Middlesex League.

16/11/68 Old
Suttonians played at Bourne Way, Sutton

23/11/68 Merton
Rushmere played at Wimbledon Park Stadium

24/11/68 1,000 attended a select XI v All Star XI 4-1.
Money went to floodlight fund.HT 3-1 to select Epsom XI. Prog Y

Jimmy Hill,
Danny Blanchflower, and Bedford Izzard all played v Epsom. Seymour (2),
Parrott (2, 1 pen)

Johnny Haynes
was present but not allowed to play by Fulham. Entrance was 2s.6d.

27/11/68 George Tarran organises a 2nd boxing dinner
evening at Epsom Baths. Bruce Chanel and Eric Blake (ABA Boxing

champion) attended. Organised jointly between Boxing Club
and EEFC. 180 attended Tickets 2 guineas for boxing and food.

Following the evening Eric Blake (boxer) and George Cohen
(World Cup Winner) become Vice-Presidents of the club.

Blake is a
local boxer who boxed for England at the Mexico Olympics and Cohen now lives
in Worcester Park.

Nov 68
Banstead Athletic lay the foundations for their new Clubhouse at Merland Rise
which would be ready in 1969.

14/12/68 Water
supply frozen at West Street v Merton Rushmere.

14/12/68 Programme for this match has a centre page
referring to the previous match against Horsham. Prog Y, but I do not

yet have a
Horsham issue from 30/11/68.

Dec 68 Alan Parrott sent off playing Sunday football.
Suspended 28 days and fined £3. Felt he had been harshly treated.

Chairman fell
just before xmas and cracked 4 ribs.

21/12/68 Jones
dislocates finger after 7 minutes. Finch takes over in goal.

26/12/68 First ever booking for Dave Fillery, as Epsom
lose 5-1 at Worthing. 3 Booked and Legrice sent off on 85 minutes.

Legrice
suspended 14 days and fined £2.

Game started 30 minutes late due to Epsom's arrival after
traffic problems. Colin Moreman saved a penalty but Mick Finch

failed to score
one at the other end..

28/12/68
Edgware (H)(L) is p-p. Frozen.

4/1/69 Epsom's
trainer ran the line as referee arrived 30 minutes late due to a train
derailment.

4/1/69 Programme refers to George Tarran having an
accident and cracking four ribs on the back of a chair. Will be unable to

be M.C. for the
next boxing show.

18/1/69 Advert is programme for WJ Keeling furniture
repairs at 39a East Street Epsom. He was the father of two original

players Fred
and Harold, and must have been very old by now. Were either son working
there?

18/1/69 Chairman announces his resignation due to work
commitments. He was landlord of Plough & Harrow,

in Thornton Heath but was moving to take
over a post office in Loughborough Junction.

George Tarran
had originally moved to be landlord at Red Lion in Epsom.

He had joined
committee in 1954 Press Sec in 55 and was Chairman in 1958 for a couple of
years.

Major heart op
followed, but back as Chairman in Dec 62. Treasurer in 1963, but no longer in
67/68.

Led appeal
against suspension from Surrey FA in 66/67.

Father and uncle were professional boxers, while George's
brother was an ABA Champion. He boxed for Lambeth Schools

and was also quite a good swimmer. He was previously
Secretary at Devas Institute before the war. Then PT Instructor

during the war.
Noel Bell inherits position for the time being.

18/1/69 v Eastbourne (H)(L) game postponed. Waterlogged.
Programme appears to have been used for 3/5/69 game, as

there is
writing on my copy to suggest this. Prog Y

25/1/69 Long term supporter Chris Henry watches his first
game v Marlow at West Street (0-0). Would remain for 35 years

until his death
in 2004 at the age of 46.

Feb 69 Malcolm
Badelow quits club and moves out of the area.

Feb 69
Edmonton played at the Barrass Stadium. Was this the same as the late 40's
new ground they moved into?

Not sure, as
Houndsfield Road is listed in 47/48. Yes - it was the Henry Barrass Stadium
in Houndsfield Road.

Feb 69 Another
boxing evening at Baths Hall.

Feb 69
reference to Terry Wales is at Ashtead - presume they mean Trevor, our future
Captain.

11/2/69 v
Aveley (A)(L) game postponed. Slight possibility this was 18/2/69. Times
confirms that 11/02/69 was p-p.

15/2/69 v
Harrow Boro (H)(L) game postponed too. Frozen and rutted in front of the
stand. Prog Y.

March 69 Bill
Harding rejoins club. Previously with Sutton and Carshalton Ath.

22/2/69 Alan
Parrott mispen in 4-0 home defeat to Uxbridge.

25/2/69 Mick
Finch misses game with flu, and Wingate match the next Saturday on 1/3/69.

1/3/69 Alan Parrott injured at Aveley and misses this game
v Wingate. May still be out on 8/3/69. Shortly to emigrate to

Australia with
his girlfriend who is already in Melbourne. Played for reserves on 8/3/69 as
they were short!

8/3/69 Reference to a Miss Jewell winning a prize on the
400 club. Was this Rob Oakes' mum? 19 The Glebe, Worcester Pk.

29/3/69 Reserve
keeper Colin Moreman has serious car crash (hit tree). Broken leg, punctured
lung, broken rib.

29/3/69 Johnny Woods and Mick Calvert played for Harrow v
Epsom. Game kicked off 10 minutes late due to late kit arrival!

Ken Jolly was a
mechanic aged 20 in 1969. (dob 18/4/48)

29/3/69 I
cannot trace a match programme for this game, so it is my belief that the
programmes originally produced

for the game on
15th Feb v Harrow were used here. Prog Y. They also do this for the
Eastbourne game on 3/5/69.

April 69 3
players chosen for England schoolboy trials. Micky Drake, Richard Hooke, and
Dave Shirley.

7/4/69 Worthing captain Andy Tasker walks off pitch with
five minutes remaining after argument with his manager. Lost 2-1!

17/4/69 Thursday night defeat at Herne Bay. D.Fillery is
listed as sub in Herne Bay press, but it doesn't look like he played,

as there is no
reference to him. I have therefore removed any sub from the records for this
game.

It was one of Herne Bay's better starts this season and
they were 2-0 up in ten minutes and "looked good for a dozen"

until the urgency went. "A fair sized crowd" saw
HT 2-1 after Legrice scored on 24 minutes, but two goals in the first 20

minutes of the
second half left the score at 4-1 to Herne Bay.

Apr 69 Peter
Gaydon is at Dulwich

Apr 69 reference to long serving supporter
"Marg" Madge Easton suffering a stroke. A supporter for at least 40
years they said.

When she died
in 1980 they said she was 63, so it's possible, although I am told she was
much older.

20/4/69 Invicta
Sunday League Intermediate Cup final at West Street Oregan v St Anns - Prog
Y.

22/4/69 Herne Bay 20 minutes late arriving, so game cut to
40 minutes each way. Two second half goals by Norcott L2-0.

27/4/69 Invicta
Sunday League Lower Senior Cup final at West Street Crescent v Phipps Sports
- Prog Y.

29/4/69
Edmonton lost player after 38 minutes but had no sub!

1/5/69 Latest
400 club draw in Clubhouse.

3/5/69 Eastbourne were late arriving and had a colour
clash. They used Epsom's reserve kit and kicked off 23 minutes late.

See notes for
original game on 18/1/69. I am sure the club used the same programme.

10/5/69 Last
game of season and Epsom started with 8 men at Ruislip for first few minutes.

11/5/69 Invicta
Sunday League Premier Cup final at West Street Shakespears v Granville - Prog
Y.

May 69 relegated Fulham have placed Johnny Byrne on the
transfer list. He had joined from Palace in 1966/67 for £30,000 and

is now offered
on a free transfer.

13/5/69 Adrian
Hill (Redhill) plays for Athenian League rep side v Walton & H. Dave
Worby plays for Walton.

16/5/69 Alan
Parrott emigrates to Australia

29/5/69 Dave
Fillery resigns due to work commitments. Peter Norris appointed in June.

Norris was a
former schoolboy international aged 29 at the time. Ray Fillery appointed
assistant.

7/6/69 Showbiz Team plays Jockeys Team with many names
listed on programme for game at West Street. Prog - Y.

Reserves:

Athenian League Reserve Division

Position

11th out of 16

SIC

4q

Cheam Village Warriors

2-5

LC

2nd

Horsham

4-6

14/9/68 Epsom
receive walkover against Old Farnhamians in SIC 1q. They had been drawn at
home.

26/10/68 Rod
Webb is sent off as Epsom win 2-1 at Crescent Rovers in the Surrey
Intermediate Cup.

2/11/68 trailed
1-0 early but defeated Harrow Borough 5-1 at West Street.

16/11/68 Ted Yorke sent off at home to Marlow and
suspended 28 days but would be injured for most of it (see below line).

7/12/68 Bad
ankle injry to Ted Yorke in our 7-0 defeat at Horsham this day.

21/12/68 Meant
to play Ruislip Manor at home but it was moved back.

It was moved
and instead we travelled to Uxbridge, losing 9-0! Confirmed by Mike Bodman,
Uxbridge historian.

I now have a programme from Uxbridge v Epsom on 11th
January 1969 which refers to the reserve game being 9-0 on that day.

The Club
Handbook says it was 9-1 and clearly advised it as our worst defeat in
Athenian League matches.

League tables also indicate that it was 9-1 and this was
never amended. A strange one and an Uxbridge report would be nice.

28/12/68
Worthing (A)(L) is p-p.

11/1/69 We were a goal down at home to Uxbridge but
defeated them 4-1 at West Street with goals from Norman, Oakes,

Fitzpatrick and
B.Ireland.

18/1/69 2-0
down at HT to Marlow but got back on level terms and could have won the game
in the end.

8/2/69 No game
for reserves as Rainham cannot raise a team at short notice. Probable fine.

15/2/69 Harrow
Borough (A) is p-p. Frozen.

22/2/69 No game
for Reserves.

15/3/69 Played with ten men for much of the second half.
Mick Cook suffered an ankle injury but we still defeated Rainham 2-1.

Eric Norman
scored a great individual goal for our second. Reference to others playing
well this day.

29/3/69 No game
for Reserves.

March 69
reference to groundsman Fred Goodenough now playing in goal for the Reserves.

25/4/69 Friday
evening reserve game v Horsham. Programme produced Prog Y. W 3-1. Parrott got
the first goal and

Johnny
Farrington scored twice, one from the spot and his second from a good cross
by Graham Rose.

25/4/69 there was a projected line up in this programme:
Fred Goodenough, Charlie Beevers, Ken Ireland, Colin Newton,

Mick Cook, Len Oakes, Eric Norman, J.Farrington, Roger
Malyon, Graham Rose, Ray Fillery. However, Alan Parrott gets the

first goal and
he wasn't in the line up! Former player Don Hollands was in their line up.

Friendlies

Score

Prog?

Beddington

H

2-3

RES

03/08/1968

Leatherhead

H

1-4

Seymour

HT 0-2

07/08/1968

Met Police

H

2-3

Fitzpatrick (2)

HT 0-1

10/08/1968

Cobham

H

2-1

R.Kelly, B.Ireland

HT 1-1

13/08/1968

Molesey

A

3-5

Seymour, Fitzpatrick (2)