Official Team Photo of the 1947–1948 1st XI Football team.
Official Team Photo of the 1947–1948 1st XI Football team.
1947-1948
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Back: Peter Mansell, Jack Fraser, John Cave, Ken Goodman, Peter Batchelor.

Centre: Mr ELK Bruyneels, Robert McGill, Derek Root, John Oswald, Mr S Elengorn.

Front: Ted Robins, Neville Shaw.

Interesting to see at least three different designs of shirt and a truly classic pose from Mr Bruyneels. Batchelor, Fraser and Jay (see below) all appear in the the photo of the Prefects in 1950–1951 which suggests this could be quite a youthful team, at least compared to those of more recent years (in the late 1970s and early 1980s there were year based teams for the first four years and then the "1st Eleven" was made up from Sixth Formers and Fifth Years).

Clearly the photo is minus at least one player as there are only ten and not a goalkeeper to be seen. Eric Jay wrote in to say that he was the goalkeeper and that the photo is also missing Bob Morley, who played inside-left. Eric sent in a photo of the 1948–1949 team to rectify this omission and that can be found in the 1948–1949 collection.

Added on 24th February 2009, has been viewed 115 times