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Crewe
Alexandria 1970-71 Team Picture
Back row, left to
right: Tom lowry, Neil Turner,Steve Arnold, Ernie Adams,
Peter Higgins, Ivan Hollett, Keith Sott.
Front Row: Les Wain, Kevin McHale, Roy Gater, Roy
Drinkwater, Pat Morrissey, Glen Osborne, Gordon Wallace.
From 'Football
League Review, no.503.
Click to see a larger version of the
above picture.
Players
included in the 1970-71 Rothmans Football Yearbook
include...
Manager:
Ernie Tagg
Born
15 Novemebr 1917. Died 29 November 2006.
See
Obituary
Ernie
Adams
Steve
Arnold.
Moved
to Liverpool September 1970
Alan
Bradshaw
Mick
Gannon
Moved
to Altrincham before or during
the 1970-71 season
Roy
Gater
Peter
Higgins
Ivan
Hollett.
Moved
to Cambridge United in November 1970
John
Inglis
Moved
to Worcester City before or during
the 1970-71 season
Peter
Leigh
Tommy
Lowry
Kevin
McHale.
Moved
to Chester in October 1970
Pat
Morrissey
Neil
Turner
Gordon
Wallace
Known
Non-First Team Players
Dolby
Played
a Watney's Cup quarter-final in July 1971. Did not
play a League game for any team as far as is known.
Drinkwater
Appeared
unplayed on the bench for the final League game of
the 70-71 season and played Lancashire League games,
but did not have a League career with any team.
Glyn
Osborne
Apprentice
who played League games without ever signing
professional forms.
Les
Wain
Apprentice
who played League games in the 1970-71 season but did
not sign professional forms untilAugust 1972
Further
players who played for the Club in 1970-71 season
include...
Ronnie
Bird
Arrived
from Cardiff City in July 1971
Stan
Bowles.
Arrived
from Manchester City September 1970.
Stan was in the FKS Soccer Stars Album for 70-71 at
Manchester City.
Keith
East
Arrived
from Northampton Town in July 1971
Mick
Hartland
Arrived
from Barrow in December 1970
and left for Southport in July 1971
Paul
Hince
Arrived
from Bury in July 1970.
Listed in the 70-71 Rothmans on the Bury pages as
having retired.
Gavin
Lang
Arrived
in September 1970 and Chester was his last listed
team, but was not listed in the 70-71 Rothmans for
any team.
Left
before the end of the 70-71 season. Rothmans 71-72
reports Gavin moved to Runcorn, Crewe
Alexandria Match By Match lists
Gavin went to Northwich Victoria.
Longhurst
Reported
in the 1970-71 Rothmans as playing in the number 8
shirt for Crewe at home v Northampton, but there
seems to be no such person! (This incidence is not
uncommon from these early editions of Rothmans which
relied on newspaper reports that were not always
accurate.)
Gordon
Low
Arrived
from Stockport County in August 1970.
Left for Selby before the end of
the season.
Gordon
Marsland
Arrived
on loan from Bristol Rovers in September 1970
Jimmy
Mulholland
Arrived
from Stockport County in August 1970.
Played one substitute game in August 1970 and left in
March 1971, after which there is no further record of
a football career.
Alan
Summerhill
Arrived
from Bournemouth in September 1970
Alan
Tewley
Arrived
from Bradford Park Avenue in October 1970
Brian
Woodall from Chester City
Other
links include...
Click
to see Crewe Alexandria 70-71 autographs at
Lennart Kristiansson's site:
English Football League
70-71 Autographs
See
Neil Brown's excellent site for career details of
every Crewe Alexandria player from 1946.
The
official site is at www.crewealex.premiumtv.co.uk
Note: Birth information and League career statistics
from:
"The PFA Premier and Football League Players'
Records 1946-2005"
Edited and compiled by Barry J. Hugman. Lennard Queen
Anne Press, 2005.
See www.since1888.co.uk
Further 1970-71 season information from :
'Rothmans Football Yearbook 1970-71' 1st Year. Queen Anne
Press, London, 1970, and
'Rothmans Football Yearbook 1971-72' 2nd Year. Queen Anne
Press, London, 1971.
Further information was used from:
Crewe
Alexandria Match by Match. The Complete Record to 1997/98.
Marco Crisp. SoccerData, 1998.
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