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Leyton Orient Division III (South) 1951-1952
I was unable to obtain any programmes for 1950-51 or 1951-52 except for a public
trial that took place August 11th 1951. The Blues as the programme with half time
changes: Groombridge, Banner Cater, Evans, Blizzard, Aldous, Brown, Jackson, Rees,
Bryant, Blair, Blatchford. The Reds: Welton, Cater Sherratt, Walton, Francis,
Pole, Carroll McMahon, Davies, Belcher, Hawkins, Deverall, Steele. From Oriental
Chatter we learnt that we had withdrawn from the London Mid-Week League but to
make up for this we adopted Chase of Chertsey the former Arsenal junior club.
Brian Jackson, Peter McMahon and Dave Groombridge had already been signed from
there. As well as Groombridge and McMahon amongst the new men were: amateur George
Putt, Ronnie Cater from West
Ham, Charlie Carroll who had
spent two seasons with
Charlton, Ex Arsenal,
Leytonstone and Eaton Manor
forward Ernie Stanley, Bert
Hawkins from Gravesend &
Northfleet, Ted Pole, Eric Bryant
from Plymouth, Joe Steele from Bury,
Paddy Blatchford also from Plymouth.
Of these Putt, Carroll, Stanley and
Steele I can find no record of them
playing in the first team. Les Gore
had been appointed Second Team
Trainer. New ground prices were
ground 1/6d, West Stand 2/6d with an
additional 3d for enclosure in front
of the main stand. Stand 4/6d. The
programme consisted of one sheet of
folded paper but wider 14” and nar-
rower at 9¾” with Leyton Orient in a
bold banner. This size continued for
some years.
In 1951-52 we finished in 18th on 41
points with Plymouth as champions.
This time Exeter City and Walsall were
re-elected to the league and Bath
City, Headington United, Merthyr
Tydfil, Peterborough United, Worcester City
and Yeovil Town failed to gain election to
the league. New players not previously men-
tioned included: Bruce, Pacey, Woan, Harris.
Below is the programme from the FA Cup 4th
Round against Birmingham February 2 1952
which we won by a goal to nil.
F.A. Cup 5th. Round -
Leyton Orient Beaten
By
Arsenal 3-0 (23
February 1952)
As above from AP
Leyton
Orient
Division III
(South)
1952-1953
My programme of
4th April 1953
mirrored my
last one.
Against
Shrewsbury we
fielded Welton,
Banner,
Charlton,
McMahon,
Aldous,
Deverall,
Facey, Lusted,
Pacey, Rees and
Poulton. Eight
from bottom
with a run of
mainly wins
(5) and draws (5) from the last 11 matches. It ended goalless. Of the remain-
ing games we lost three, won three and drew 1 during which Pacey scored seven
goals. The reserves did well in the Combination Cup by beating Aldershot 8-2
being 7-0 up at half time. Scorers were Davies 3, Harris 2, Blatchford 2, and
Poulton. The defence was getting better as we only let in 73 goals. Bottom
place Walsall let in 118. We finished 14th on 42 points with an average at-
tendance of 10,5621. Shrewsbury Town & Walsall were re-elected to league so
the unlucky wanting league football were: Bath City, Headington United,
Hereford United, Peterborough United, Worcester City and Yeovil Town. New
players this season were Charlton, Whiteley, Facey, Jones, Mansley, Lusted and
Poulton while
Bryant, Bruce,
Rooney,
Davies,
Sherratt,
Walton and
Cater did not
play for us in
1951-1952. It
was to be the
last season
for Banner,
Deverall,
Brown, Blair,
Pullen,
Hawkins,
Harris, Jones,
Pole, Mansley,
Cater and
Blatchford.
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1950 unknown.
1950 Keith Francis.
1953-1956 Stan Morgan.
Stan Morgan.
1953-1956 Ron Burgess.
Back row, left to right, J. Evans, L. Blizzard, S. Aldous, P. Welton, A. Banner, H. Deverall.
Front Row, D. Woan, D. Pacey, T. Harris, T. Brown, P. Blatchford.
6 January 1952 FA Cup 3rd round replay away at Everton.
Don Woan 1951-53
25 league apps, 5 goals.
1950-1954 John Evans.