[Lord Snooty]

October 10:

Ernie Islip was born on this date in 1892, although the book Huddersfield Town - a complete record by Terry Frost, has him born on the 31st. They both agree he was born in Parkwood Springs in Sheffield though.

He signed for Town in 1911 but didn't make his debut until 1913, an away defeat at Bristol City. After this, he was a regular in the side up until the war and on this date in 1914, he scored in a home match against Wolves on his 22nd birthday. Billy Smith scored the other goal in a 2-0 victory.

During the war, he guested for Sheffield Wednesday before going off on military service in Egypt.

He was late back after the war had finished, still on service in Egypt until December 1919, by which time, Billy Smith had become the regular in his position on the left wing. Luckily for Ernie, Billy got himself suspended for the 1920 FA Cup Final and so Ernie was in, winning a runners up medal as the Town lost to Aston Villa.

Town won promotion that year and Ernie moved to play inside forward or centre forward for more regular games. Two years after the Cup Final defeat, he had a winners medal, playing against Preston in the 1922 FA Cup Final, in a season when he finished as joint leading scorer with Clem Stephenson, both scoring 15.

He was transferred to Birmingham in 1923 and when he left he'd scored a total of 52 goals. He is now 21st in the all time goal scorers chart, level with Colin Dobson.

After Birmingham he went to play for Bradford City, Kidderminster, Ashton and finally Wrexham. When he hung up his boots, he returned to Huddersfield to run a pub in Lindley, but died in 1941, aged just 48.

Jack Chaplin was born on this date in 1882 in Dundee. He played for Dundee, then Spurs where he was a teammate of Herbert Chapman, before going back to Dundee and winning a Scottish Cup winners medal. That was against Clyde and he played left back in a tie that went to a second replay after two drawn matches, with all three games being played at Ibrox.

Later, he teamed up again with Chapman, first at Leeds City, but then at Town where he was trainer. But when Chapman left for Arsenal and then Cecil Potter quit after one season in charge, Chaplin was persuaded to step up to the hot seat, becoming our first ever Scottish manager. Mark Fotheringham, also from Dundee, is the ninth.

Today's question; How many of the other seven Scottish managers can you name?

He had three seasons in charge, finishing twice as runners up in the First Division and getting to the FA Cup semis in his third season. At the end of that 3rd season, he resigned to be replaced by Clem Stephenson. He did stay on though, reverting back to his previous role, which he stayed in right up to the start of the 2nd World War.

He died in Doncaster in 1952, aged 69.

On the field of play, on this date in 2009, we played Exeter City at home in a League One match. We won it 4-0, with Lee Novak scoring an early opener. Jordan Rhodes added a second in the 44th minute, but then added two more soon after half time to complete his hat trick by the 52nd minute.

All three of his goals were headers and he achieved his hat trick in 8 minutes of playing time, which set a new Football League record, beating the previous quickest of all headers hat tricks set in the 1930s by Everton legend Dixie Dean.