Post by Budleigh on May 13, 2011 10:16:30 GMT
Shrewsbury away in the 2nd round of the FA Cup, played on the 24th of November, 1962.
A game we lost 2-1 with United’s goal coming from Tommy Northcott in front of a gate numbering 8,223. Shrewsbury went on to play Sheffield Wednesday at home in the 3rd round, a tie they eventually lost after a replay at Hillsborough.
Some interesting points that need a mention:
Frank Clarke, one of five brothers to have all played professional football. England international Alan ‘Sniffer’ Clarke at Leeds, Wayne Clarke at Wolves, Birmingham, Man City etc and who also turned out for the Shrews, Derek who played mainly for Oxford United and Kelvin who only played for Walsall, albeit only nine times. Frank being the only one of the five to have not turned out for Walsall at some time in his career,
Arthur Rowley, the scorer of the most games in football league history having netted 434 goals in a career spanning 619 games for West Brom, Fulham and Leicester, before joining the Shrews, where he is also their record goal scorer on 152 in 236 games. He was also a fair cricketer playing minor counties cricket for Shropshire.
Len Beel gets a mention on the ‘Your Page’ page, as being part of the England youth squad to play Switzerland. His football career didn’t set the world alight, playing just three times for Shrewsbury before moving to Birmingham where he played just the one game, letting in five goals in a 5-5 draw with Blackburn. In June 1969 he turned out at Edgbaston for Somerset in a Sunday league game against Warwickshire, but his cricket career was destined to be as fruitful as his footballing one. He never appeared for Somerset again having scored just one run in this match and then, when brought on to bowl, taking no wickets for the loss 18 runs in just two overs. Very much a ‘nearly man’!
Note also that Shrewsbury’s next match is away to QPR at the White City Stadium, built for the 1908 Olympic Games, where Rangers had two short spells in the thirties and sixties, neither of which worked in those cavernous surroundings prompting a quick return to Loftus Road.
A game we lost 2-1 with United’s goal coming from Tommy Northcott in front of a gate numbering 8,223. Shrewsbury went on to play Sheffield Wednesday at home in the 3rd round, a tie they eventually lost after a replay at Hillsborough.
Some interesting points that need a mention:
Frank Clarke, one of five brothers to have all played professional football. England international Alan ‘Sniffer’ Clarke at Leeds, Wayne Clarke at Wolves, Birmingham, Man City etc and who also turned out for the Shrews, Derek who played mainly for Oxford United and Kelvin who only played for Walsall, albeit only nine times. Frank being the only one of the five to have not turned out for Walsall at some time in his career,
Arthur Rowley, the scorer of the most games in football league history having netted 434 goals in a career spanning 619 games for West Brom, Fulham and Leicester, before joining the Shrews, where he is also their record goal scorer on 152 in 236 games. He was also a fair cricketer playing minor counties cricket for Shropshire.
Len Beel gets a mention on the ‘Your Page’ page, as being part of the England youth squad to play Switzerland. His football career didn’t set the world alight, playing just three times for Shrewsbury before moving to Birmingham where he played just the one game, letting in five goals in a 5-5 draw with Blackburn. In June 1969 he turned out at Edgbaston for Somerset in a Sunday league game against Warwickshire, but his cricket career was destined to be as fruitful as his footballing one. He never appeared for Somerset again having scored just one run in this match and then, when brought on to bowl, taking no wickets for the loss 18 runs in just two overs. Very much a ‘nearly man’!
Note also that Shrewsbury’s next match is away to QPR at the White City Stadium, built for the 1908 Olympic Games, where Rangers had two short spells in the thirties and sixties, neither of which worked in those cavernous surroundings prompting a quick return to Loftus Road.
