ON THIS DAY

Eamonn Andrews presented the ' This Is Your Life' red book to Wolves striker Derek Dougan. His footballing guests on the programme were Jimmy Hill, Pat Jennings, Malcolm Allison and Bill McGarry.

In the early 1930s Scot Joe Ford was making a name for himself as a goalscorer in the Newcastle United reserve side. An injury to first team regular Jack Allen saw Joe make his League debut in the First Division match against Grimsby Town at St James’ Park on Saturday January 16th 1932. Midway through the first half he collided with Grimsby ‘keeper Tommy Read and suffered a double fracture of his left leg. Despite a long period of recovery and convalescence he was unable to regain his form of old and he moved back to Scotland and signed for Partick Thistle leaving those few minutes he played against Grimsby as his only first-team competitive football in England. When he made his debut for Partick in 1934 the Newcastle players sent him a telegram saying 'Good Luck'.

The 1931/32 season was a memorable one for Lincoln City - for the first time they topped a Football League table at the season's end, winning the Division 3 North title. They had finished equal top on points with Gateshead but won the title because of a much superior goal average scoring 106 goals in 40 League matches. Alan Hall scored 42 of those goals which is still a record for a season at Lincoln. But when it came to Lincoln's biggest win of the season it was another player who made the goalscoring headlines. On 16th January 1932 Lincoln beat Halifax Town 9-1 at Sincil Bank, at the time a record victory for the Imps, with seven of those goals coming in just 21 second half minutes. Six of those seven goals were scored by Frank Keetley. Amazing!