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The
1960s
The sixties got off to a good start. PSA had won the
league in 1959-60, and retained it in season 1960-61, with further
successes to come in 1966-67 and 1968-69.
There
were a number of famous names who played in the 1960s, including
Norman Suddon, Harry Whitaker, Brian Hegarty, Norman Pender, Wattie
Davies, Jim Renwick, Ian Barnes, Alistair Cranston, Rob Charters and
Kenny McCartney. |
| FIRST
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| MR
PETTIE'S FLANNELS |
| I
remember a PE teacher from Melrose, a Mr Pettie, who took us
training while always immaculately dressed in his blue blazer and
pressed grey flannels who told me off one day for not driving into
him hard enough in training. He told me to go back and
do it again. I duly obliged, and sent him up in the air
to land upside down in the mud, making quite a mess of his nice
blazer and trousers. Needless to say he never asked me
to drive into him again. |
| Norman
Pender |
| THE
BALD EAGLE ET AL. |
| In
my early days at Burnfoot, Terence Arthur Froud and myself
volunteered to paint the changing rooms and bath area. The
committee decided £5.00 would be our wages, but with stalwarts like
the Bald Eagle, Eddie Gilchrist, John Andison, to name a few, we had
more chance of finding the Lost City of Atlantis than getting a
fiver out of them. |
| Jim
Renwick |
| INITIATION |
| At
15 years old, I was the weed who trailed along at the back
frightened to speak to some of the older players, Tucker Robson, Ba'
Cook and Dougal, for fear of being thrown into the mud pool at the
end of the pitch which - I found out later, after my first week's
training - happened if you spoke or not. |
| Terence
Froud |
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