Just to expand a bit further. There's some interesting characters in the team of that era. Dick Graham is probably the best known as he subsequently became a very successful Palace manager when he took over from an ailing Arthur Rowe. He gained promotion to Div 2 where we were a respectable 7th in the 64/65 season. However during the following campaign, after a string of bad results, he left to be replaced by the ecletic Arthur Rowe as caretaker.

As players, Graham and wing half Jack Lewis were selected to play for a London XI in Brussels in 1948.
Despite Palace struggling at the foot of the 3rd Div. Lewis was a stalwart for three seasons after the war before moving to Reading, via Bournemouth, where unusually for a defender in those days he scored 15 goals in a season.

Fred Dawes was the younger brother of Bert who was a prolific goalscorer for Palace pre-war. They were local boys from Frimley Green. Bert was a defender who spent more than 14 years at the club when he became Assistant Manager.

Jimmy Clough, probable scorer of the "wobbly" goal, was, like his famous namesake from the north-east albeit in Newcastle. He was signed from Southport and scored 13 goals in 72 games, before being transferred to Southend.

Fred Kurz is for me the most intriguing with his German name (translated as Short). He was born in Grimsby at the end of World War 1 at a time when what had been quite a large German community in Britain had been decimated due to deportation, internment and general intimidation even for those who had been almost totally Anglicised. His background, which I will look into, should be very interesting because having a German name during that time would have its complications even though sensitivities were not so high after the second world war as evidenced by Bert Trautmann etc.

Whatever the case though, Kurz flourished at Palace scoring 50 goals in 151 games over about 5 seasons, before returning to his native Lincs with Boston Utd.

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