Post by Budleigh on May 2, 2010 8:46:39 GMT
This is the programme for the Notts County home match played on the 19th of November, 1949 and is interesting for a number of points.
It was the second time that County visited Plainmoor with the great Tommy Lawton in the forward line. The first being the season before when dreadful weather kept the attendance down to just over 10,000.
This time though the crowd numbered 13,824, a new record at Plainmoor, beating the previous season's visit of Exeter City by 148. (*see below)
The score was 0-0, surprising when the two teams lined up with Lawton & Sewell up-front for County whilst United had the legend-to-be Don Mills now slotted into one of Torquay's greatest ever attacking front lines.
This was the season that Notts County won the Third Division (South) securing the Championship with a win over cross-river rivals Nottingham Forest at the end of April having played United at Meadow Lane a fortnight before. At this point we had become their nearest rivals, unfortunately falling away with a dreadful end of season run having seen Don Mills return to QPR after his initial loan period and manager John McNeil depart for Bury.
(The programme and details for this away match are interesting in itself and will follow later)
* In the statistics section of the Official Centenary History, Leigh Edwards has the attendance for the Exeter City game down correctly as 13,676 but in the actual script states ‘Over 14,000 saw United win an exciting game…’
It was the second time that County visited Plainmoor with the great Tommy Lawton in the forward line. The first being the season before when dreadful weather kept the attendance down to just over 10,000.
This time though the crowd numbered 13,824, a new record at Plainmoor, beating the previous season's visit of Exeter City by 148. (*see below)
The score was 0-0, surprising when the two teams lined up with Lawton & Sewell up-front for County whilst United had the legend-to-be Don Mills now slotted into one of Torquay's greatest ever attacking front lines.
This was the season that Notts County won the Third Division (South) securing the Championship with a win over cross-river rivals Nottingham Forest at the end of April having played United at Meadow Lane a fortnight before. At this point we had become their nearest rivals, unfortunately falling away with a dreadful end of season run having seen Don Mills return to QPR after his initial loan period and manager John McNeil depart for Bury.
(The programme and details for this away match are interesting in itself and will follow later)
* In the statistics section of the Official Centenary History, Leigh Edwards has the attendance for the Exeter City game down correctly as 13,676 but in the actual script states ‘Over 14,000 saw United win an exciting game…’
