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Jubilee Year

Teams from the 1930s make up our pages this month in tracing some of the history of the Old Boys' Football Club which celebrates its golden jubilee over Queen's Birthday weekend.

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One of the most outstanding records achieved by any team in the country would be that of the junior B team of 1937-38-39. In those three years the team played 50 games both home and away and won the lot. From left, front row: N. Summersby, D. Russell (vice-capt), J. E. Mercer (coach), H. Sebire (capt), A. Falconer. Mascot: R. Nield. Centre row: R. Carroll, S. Ball, J. Short, J. Adeane, D. Hamilton, W. Hayden, B. G. Glen, R. Green. Back row: I. Caie, M. Stevens, J. Hutchin, R. Kells, L. Bell, A. Eastwood, J. Forster.

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Two more life members of the club, Ted Felton and "Pop" Phelps.

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The seniors of 1936 won the P.B. senior championship and the Burt Cup. From left, front row: H. Littler, T. Dovie, P. Wall (club capt), R. Evans (capt), O. S. Burt (president), R. Henderson, J. Shields, G. Montgomery, D. Henderson, A. Read. Centre row: F. H. Cunningham (sec), B. Palmer, R. Cook, A. Owen, A. Campbell, G. Fraser, T. Harrison, V. Hogan. Back row: E. Fitzmaurice, G. McConnell, R. Spence, F. Twigg, C. Davy, B. Smellie. Inset: C. Parker.

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The 1934 junior team carried all before them to win that year's junior championship. From left, front rows: C. Muir, W. Higgs (vice-capt), H. C. Wilson (capt), R. Henderson, G. Montgomery. Centre row: F. H. Cunningham (sec), J. Green, E. H. Dow, B. Smellie, G. Bennett, T. Post, W. Kennedy (coach). Back row: E. Walshe, J. McKinley, W. Johnstone, P. Whiteley, P. Livingstone. Insets, left: J. Boag. Right: E. Walton.

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The year before that the senior XV won the Premier Cup and some of these men are sure to be on hand at the jubilee to recount the games of '33. From left, in front: O. Burt (Del. P.B.R.U.O), F. Martin, C. Thomas, G. Pocock (capt), A. Owen, H. Littler, P. Wall (manager). Centre row: H. Cunningham (sec), J. Ansell, R. Moorhead, L. Martin, S. McLernon, A. McPhail, G. Fraser, E. Jeffries (club capt). Back row: R. Morgan, P. Lockett, T. Harrison, J. Barrett, D. Coates, P. Dow, K. McIntyre.