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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,
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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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