[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.