[jjamez]

Town wanted to sign Morrison at the end of his loan but reading wanted a deal going up to 1mil and Dean refused to go that high. We ended up with Anthony Gerrard and Joel lynch, plus 8mil+ for Jordan Rhodes

[WakeyTerrier]

11years ago today

Town 2 v 0 Dover

[SHEP_HTAFC]

Also on this day in 1980, Halifax Town beat Manchester City 1-0 in the FA Cup.

I was at that game Snoots. Pitch was nothing but a mud bath that day.

[Lord Snooty]

January 9th:

Born on this day in 1925 was Len Quested. Being born then meant that when he should be starting his career as a professional footballer, the war was still on. He was in the Royal Navy on the H.M.S. Golden Hind, based in Australia. After the war, he returned to play for Folkestone Town, his home town club. Then he landed his big move, to Fulham, where he played for four seasons before joining the mighty Huddersfield Town in 1951, in exchange for Jeff Taylor.
He missed most of the relegation season with a broken leg, but in the following promotion season, he was one of the famous back line that remained unchanged, playing every game of the season. The others were goalkeeper Jack Wheeler with Ron Staniforth, Laurie Kelly, Bill McGarry and Don McEvoy.
Having earlier married an Aussie, they moved back down under when he retired in 1957 and he spent the rest of his career in coaching. He died in Queensland in 2012.

And a couple of FA Cup games to mention. In 1962, we won a seven goal thriller at Leeds Road, beating Rotherham 4-3. Les Massie, Kevin McHale (2) and Jim Kerray (who died a couple of months ago aged 85) getting the goals.

Two years previous to that, in 1960, we played First Division giants West Ham United at Leeds Road and drew 1-1 in front of 30,526 spectators. A young lad called Denis Law scored ours. How did we get on in the replay? Find out on the 13th.

[Lord Snooty]

January 10th:

It was only four days ago that Herbert Chapman died but on this day in 1934, he was laid to rest. So famous was he that his funeral made it on to the British Newsreel.......

Bobby Hoy was born on this date in Halifax in 1950, making him 72 today. He came to the club in 1966 and was at the club at the time of his two rhyming named colleagues Peter Goy and David Joy. Commentators dream? No, they never played a game together. Well not in the first team anyway.
Bobby played most of the three, becoming a bit of a cult hero because of the song by The Equals, which fitted brilliantly into a Cowshed chant.

He was a member of our glorious Second Division Championship winning squad of 69/70 and stayed around for the terrible fall down the leagues, leaving for Halifax Town in 1976. In total he turned out 155 times for the Town (and 4 subs) and scored 19 goals. After Halifax, he played for York, Rochdale and Macclesfield.

On this day in 1914, we played London Caledonians in the FA Cup. This is the only time we have played them, who were an amateur team playing in Holloway. They were mainly Scotsmen, hence the Caledonian name. This was the second of only two times they made it to the first round proper before they folded in 1939.
We have one club connection, that being goalkeeper Ronald Brebner. He wasn't Scottish, he was born in Darlington, but he was our goalkeeper in the 1911/12 season and theirs between 1902 and 04. But the interesting thing about his time with us is that he represented Great Britain in the GB Football Team at the 1912 Olympics, which they won. So he is the only Huddersfield Town player to have won an Olympic Gold.
He left us after that though and joined Leicester Fosse. He had a head injury whilst playing in a match for them and that led to his early death, at the age of 33, in 1914.
Anyway, back to that Cup match on this date. It was a 1st round match played at Leeds Road with 6,500 spectators there and we won it 3-0 with a goal from Andrew Armour and two from Ernie Islip.

Here's Ronald playing at the Olympics.

[jjamez]

Head injury that lead to his death? Was it akin to the Petr cech injury or did they hit him with a bloody brick?

Although keepers were given no protection whatsoever back then unlike today where they are given excessive protection, look at Pope for our second goal, pleading for a free kick

[themaclad]

The Metropolitan tube line opened today in 1863

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Rod Stewart born 77 years ago today

[Lord Snooty]

And David Bowie died six years ago today.

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Aye it's an odd one that, jjamez. Must've been a clot or summat. From what I can gather it was quite a while after the incident that he died. Had he been in hospital or did he drop down dead in the street? Don't know.

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From the Team GB website:

After qualifying as a dental surgeon at Edinburgh University, Ronald Brebner played for a wide variety of football clubs as he moved around the country establishing himself in his profession.

At various times he played for Sunderland, Queens Park Rangers, London Caledonians, Northern Nomads, Wanders, Darlington, Elgin City, Stockton, Huddersfield Town, Chelsea and Leicester Fosse.

He kept goal for England in 23 amateur internationals, but although he played in the South vs. North England trial match in 1912, he never won full international honors. Brebner made just one league appearance for Chelsea in the 1906-07 season, but when he returned to Stamford Bridge four years later he was, when available, the first choice goalkeeper and played in 17 league matches and one cup tie.

He played for Great Britain in all three matches in the 1912 Olympics but two years after winning his gold medal he died, at the age of 33. On 26 December 1913 (Boxing Day), while with Leicester Fosse, he had been carried off the field at Lincoln with an injury which ended his playing career and contributed significantly to his early death ten months later.

[WakeyTerrier]

On this day:

1987
Norwich 1 v 1 Town

2009
Northampton Town 1 v 1 Town

2015
Town 3 v 1 Watford

[Lord Snooty]

January 11th:

We played Wolverhampton Wanderers at home on this date in 1961. Town had recently sold Denis Law to Manchester City for a British record fee of £55,000 and had spent the money on installing the first set of floodlights at Leeds Road. This match would be the first match played under these brand new lights and it became famous as such with the lights becoming known as the Denis Law Floodlights.

Our opponents were the current FA Cup holders, having beaten Blackburn Rovers in the Final of 1960. They were one of the big names of the time and when they played us, they were still in the European Cup Winners Cup, which they eventually lost at the semi final stage to Rangers. At the time of this meeting they were top of the First Division, having finished as runners up to Burnley in the previous season, and would finish this season in 3rd. They had the legendary Stan Cullis as manager.

Town, managed by Eddie Boot, were languishing near the foot of the Second Division and would only just avoid relegation by finishing in 20th place. So when the two sides met at Molineux, it was a major surprise when a Derek Stokes goal earned the brave Blue n Whites a 1-1 draw.

It was a major shock when they came to Leeds Road and got beat 2-1. Stokes scored early on to put us in the lead, but Wolves equalised to make it level at half time. But then with 13 minutes remaining, up popped Mike O'Grady to win it for the Town. He would later play for Wolves.

Typical Town, we lost against Barnsley in the next round.

Eleven years ago, in 2011, we won a game but still got booed off. You may well remember it, it was against Plymouth Argyle, in League One, under the Alfred McAlpine Floodlights. Town were one nil down in the first minute when Joe Mason scored. Things should've improved for us when they had Curtis Nelson sent off for a professional foul and even more so when they had Stephane Zubar dismissed for a second yellow.
Then came the bizarre moment. Argyle were down to eight men while they had a player (Mason) on the sidelines receiving treatment and facing a Town free kick from the halfway line. Instead of sending it into the box where we had a considerable numerical advantage, Kevin Kilbane, in his wisdom played the ball square to a team mate who obviously wasn't expecting it and missed it. The ball went straight to Mason who had just been waved back on. He raced towards goal and slotted it past Alex Smithies.

Kari Arnason started the Town come back by putting the ball into his own net and Jordan Rhodes made it level soon after. By half time the game was won when Peter Clarke scrambled one home from a corner. But the second half against the nine men was dire and despite winning 3-2, the team were booed off at the end, with angry manager Lee Clark declaring that the fans had every right to do so after such a performance.