1 May. Home to Crystal Place in the SE Counties League Div One where we won 4-0 with a hat-trick from Fairbrother and one from Manning. Team: Bowtell, Coventry, Bailey, Ford, Dafforn, Cook, Hopwood, Brisley, Fairbrother, Archell, Manning. Sub Holland. We were second in the table some four points behind leaders QPR. We were three from bottom in division two. 2 May. Home to Chelsea in the London Youth FA Junior Challenge Cup Semi-final. Dispite goals from Bailey and Cook we lost 2-3. Team: Vanhamme, Coventry, Bailey, Keefe, Taylor, Cook, Kilbourne, Keenan, Holland(Eastall), Dent(Holland), Manning. Sub unknown but was Eastall in the programme. We drew again with Colchester away (4 May) with the same scoreline as  earlier in the season, 1-1, Peter Allen getting the goal this time. Programme team: Goddard, Jones, Simpson(Rofe played), Allen, Mancini, Taylor, Key(Slater played), Bloomfield(Harper played), Massey, Halom, Slater(Simpson played). Sub Harper . Wasn’t him but I didn’t note who it was. Terry Price was at 7 for them. We was asked to find the taste of Trumans again. Football League Review was included.   The last two matches of the season, both at home, ended in defeat. At the hands of Gillingham (7 May) 0-4 Programme team: Goddard, Jones, Rofe, Allen(Harper played, Mancini, Taylor, Slater, Bloomfield, Massey, Halom, Simpson. Sub Harper but Wood re- placed him. Riddick again turned up in their line-up. And Tranmere Rovers (11 May) 0- 1. Programme team: Goddard, Jones, Rofe, Taylor, Mancini, Wood, Slater, Bloomfield, Massey, Halom, Simpson. Sub Harper. Despite starting the season with only 15 players, 27 were to turn out for the club. No player was ever present. League/Cup appearances and goalscorers in brackets: Ray Goddard 44, Bert Howe 43, Roy Massey 43(13), Vic Halom 42(10), Mick Jones 42(2), Owen Simpson 39(5), Malcolm Slater 38(2), Brian Wood 38(2), Peter Allen 37(5), Terry Mancini 34, Dave Harper 27, Tommy Taylor 15, Jimmy Bloomfield 14, John Sneddon 11(1), Eddie Thomas 11(2), Tom Anderson 8, John Key 8, Eddie Werge 8, Barry Fry 5, Ron Willis 4, Cliff Holton 3, Terry Price 3, Dennis Rofe 3(1), Tony Ackerman 2, Graham Archell 2, Doug Eadie 2, Steve Bowtell 1, John Still 1. Whitehouse (3) Orient finished in 19th place with 41 points, Mansfield were relegated with 37. The Colts were the highest scorers in the South East Counties League Division Two with 96 goals from 30 matches.  Snippets from the seasons programmes. Considering we were in financial trouble there was money to be made in the programme but inside pages and the back page remained devoid of any money making adverts though they would have saved some money by printing all the covers before the sea- son began and then wrapped them around the other pages. Previous page Start of 1967/68. Next page 1968- 1969.

1968 Feb v Brighton 1-1 (Halom).

1968 Feb v Brighton. Wood, Goddard, Mancini.