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Palace Midweek Games 1957/1958
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 bill63  18 Nov 14 8.06pm |
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Can one you oldies tell me if any of the midweek home games in this season were played in the afternoon ?
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| nickgusset Shizzlehurst 18 Nov 14 8.08pm |
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Quote bill63 at 18 Nov 2014 8.06pm
Can one you oldies tell me if any of the midweek home games in this season were played in the afternoon ?
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| lankygit Lincoln 19 Nov 14 7.52am |
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I saw my first Palace match at the tail end of 1956/57 season, and was a regular attendee of home matches thereafter until moving to N Yorkshire in the mid 1960`s. There were , indeed, floodlit games at that time. The Madrid game was to celebrate the new lights mounted on 4 towers, one in each of the 4 corners of the ground. The stanchions accommodating the old lights are still present on one side of the ground, on the roof of the main stand. There was a series of stanchions mirroring them along the other side where "The Arfur" now sits. There was a competition in the 50`s (might have run into the early 60`s, though not sure) called " The Southern Professional Floodlight Cup". Palace reached the final of this in 1959, going down 1-2 to Arsenal at Selhurst.
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| PalacePhotoMan Wallington 19 Nov 14 1.23pm |
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Palace played midweek floodlit friendlies from 28.9.1953 (v Chelsea was the first game), with lights on those stanchions still embedded into the roof of the Main Stand, plus sort of extended street lights along the Park Road side, which Lankygit confirms. The Madrid friendly (April 62) was the official opening of new lights which were on pylons at the ends of the ground, but in fact they were installed during the previous summer and the first game under those lights was v Notts County on 23.8.61. I have attached a photo here of the Chelsea friendly which shows the lights on either side of the ground. And on the next message there's one from the Notts County game 8 years later.
Zaha, Williams, Murray, Ambrose, Scannell. A 5-man forward line who scored 3 goals in 10 minutes on 27th September 2011 at ....................... |
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Attachment: | PalacePhotoMan Wallington 19 Nov 14 1.23pm |
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Notts County 23.8.61
Zaha, Williams, Murray, Ambrose, Scannell. A 5-man forward line who scored 3 goals in 10 minutes on 27th September 2011 at ....................... |
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| uncleian Old Coulsdon 05 Dec 14 12.04pm |
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Quote bill63 at 18 Nov 2014 8.06pm
Can one you oldies tell me if any of the midweek home games in this season were played in the afternoon ? Some of Palace's home games that season look like they were played 'under lights' but the following give the impression that these were not. There were also two Saturday games
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blind eagle  Covington.Tennessee 20 Feb 15 9.06pm |
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Quote uncleian at 05 Dec 2014 12.04pm
Quote bill63 at 18 Nov 2014 8.06pm
Can one you oldies tell me if any of the midweek home games in this season were played in the afternoon ? Some of Palace's home games that season look like they were played 'under lights' but the following give the impression that these were not. There were also two Saturday games I was at the Torquay game in October which I think ended in a draw. Not sure now but I think Mike Deacon scored for us.
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| eagle in cornwall Made In Thornton Heath. 10 Mar 15 3.26pm |
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Quote lankygit at 19 Nov 2014 7.52am
I saw my first Palace match at the tail end of 1956/57 season, and was a regular attendee of home matches thereafter until moving to N Yorkshire in the mid 1960`s. There were , indeed, floodlit games at that time. The Madrid game was to celebrate the new lights mounted on 4 towers, one in each of the 4 corners of the ground. The stanchions accommodating the old lights are still present on one side of the ground, on the roof of the main stand. There was a series of stanchions mirroring them along the other side where "The Arfur" now sits. There was a competition in the 50`s (might have run into the early 60`s, though not sure) called " The Southern Professional Floodlight Cup". Palace reached the final of this in 1959, going down 1-2 to Arsenal at Selhurst. As stated there were several floodlit fixtures before the second set were switched on with that epic match against Real Madrid in 1962 3-4 to Real.
........................Then along came Johnny Byrne! and the rest, as they say, is history..................... |
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