23-02-2022, 03:48
February 23:
Born on this day 74 years ago in 1948 was Trevor Cherry, who would've been 74 today, had he not died in 2020. He was born in Huddersfield, played for the Town and won the 2nd Division title in 69/70 with us.
He should be a fully fledged Town legend as such, but sadly, he went to Bellend Road to play for Don Revie and became a Leeds legend instead. I can't bear to go on about all that, so I won't
After them, he went and became a Bradford City legend as well, getting them promoted by winning the 3rd Division title. Sadly, on the day they were due to receive the trophy, they had a bit of a fire. I say a bit of a fire....... you all know the story.
So he was a legend at Huddersfield, Leeds and Bradford. Why he didn't go and get the full house at Halifax, I'll never know.
He won 27 caps for England, all during his time at Leeds. In one of them, he had the disgrace of being sent off in a match against Argentina. He got sent off despite the Argie player knocking two of his teeth out. Proper football!
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On this day in 1924, we played an FA Cup match at Turf Moor against Burnley. Such was the popularity of our superb football team that there were 54,775 spectators there, which was and still is the record crowd at the ground. Burnley won 1-0, but of course we got our own back 98 years later.
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We have a couple of big wins against different sized opponents on this day over the years. Back in 1957, we had a 2nd Division match at Leeds Road against West Ham United, who in less than ten years time would win the World Cup for England.
We absolutely hammered the Hammers 6-2. Ken Taylor, who also played cricket for Yorkshire and England, scored 8 goals in this season. Four of them he scored in this match. The other two were scored by Les Massie and Bill McGarry.
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A slightly less glamorous opponent came to Leeds Road in 1974. Rochdale were the visitors and it was their first proper visit to our ground. By that I mean it was the first time in league or cup action. We did play them in the Wartime League and beat them 11-0 in 1941. This was another big win, in our first ever 3rd Division season, but at half time it didn't look likely. It was 0-0 at half time, but by full time we had beaten them 5-0. Goals coming that day with 2 for Jimmy Lawson, two for Alan Gowling and one for Phil Summerill.
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Phil Summerill
Born on this day 74 years ago in 1948 was Trevor Cherry, who would've been 74 today, had he not died in 2020. He was born in Huddersfield, played for the Town and won the 2nd Division title in 69/70 with us.
He should be a fully fledged Town legend as such, but sadly, he went to Bellend Road to play for Don Revie and became a Leeds legend instead. I can't bear to go on about all that, so I won't
After them, he went and became a Bradford City legend as well, getting them promoted by winning the 3rd Division title. Sadly, on the day they were due to receive the trophy, they had a bit of a fire. I say a bit of a fire....... you all know the story.
So he was a legend at Huddersfield, Leeds and Bradford. Why he didn't go and get the full house at Halifax, I'll never know.
He won 27 caps for England, all during his time at Leeds. In one of them, he had the disgrace of being sent off in a match against Argentina. He got sent off despite the Argie player knocking two of his teeth out. Proper football!
On this day in 1924, we played an FA Cup match at Turf Moor against Burnley. Such was the popularity of our superb football team that there were 54,775 spectators there, which was and still is the record crowd at the ground. Burnley won 1-0, but of course we got our own back 98 years later.
We have a couple of big wins against different sized opponents on this day over the years. Back in 1957, we had a 2nd Division match at Leeds Road against West Ham United, who in less than ten years time would win the World Cup for England.
We absolutely hammered the Hammers 6-2. Ken Taylor, who also played cricket for Yorkshire and England, scored 8 goals in this season. Four of them he scored in this match. The other two were scored by Les Massie and Bill McGarry.
How many did Ken score?
A slightly less glamorous opponent came to Leeds Road in 1974. Rochdale were the visitors and it was their first proper visit to our ground. By that I mean it was the first time in league or cup action. We did play them in the Wartime League and beat them 11-0 in 1941. This was another big win, in our first ever 3rd Division season, but at half time it didn't look likely. It was 0-0 at half time, but by full time we had beaten them 5-0. Goals coming that day with 2 for Jimmy Lawson, two for Alan Gowling and one for Phil Summerill.
Phil Summerill
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