{"id":55625,"date":"2010-04-04T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55625"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:01:52","slug":"loftus-senior-school-football-team-193233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55625","title":{"rendered":"Loftus Senior School Football Team 1932\/33"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2495\" height=\"1667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/scn_046-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55624\" style=\"width:744px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/scn_046-1.jpg 2495w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/scn_046-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/scn_046-1-449x300.jpg 449w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/scn_046-1-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/scn_046-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2495px) 100vw, 2495px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners of the North Riding Shield (Donnison Cup) which they played at North Skelton.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Back Row: Mr Jack Bowles, Mr Miles Mourne, Billy Cuthbert, Lewis Matthews, Ernie Wood, Joe Fenby, Harry Webster, Mr French (Headteacher), Mr Bert Davy.<\/strong><br> <strong>Middle Row: Billy Dobson, John Cockburn, Ben Scott, Jackie Legg, Ivor Stonehouse.<\/strong><br> <strong>Front: Tom Kitching, Ronnie Barrett.<\/strong><br> <strong>The strips were bought by the Golden Lion, hence the logo on the shirts. Who says PFI is a new idea? Eric Johnson tells us: \u201dWith regards to the cup in the photograph, a newspaper clipping dated 19\/5\/33 states: &#8220;by beating Margrove Park 2-1 at North Skelton in Cleveland last night, Loftus boys won the Donnison Cup. Dobson and Stonehouse scored for Loftus and E. Weatherill for Margrove Park.\u2019 Bill Kitching tells us: &#8220;Tom Kitching front kneeling. My brother \u2013 I went to this match at North Skelton &#8211; Tom served in HM submarines and was awarded the D.S.M. as Chief E.R.A.&#8221; Eric Johnson also advises: &#8220;The strip the team worn was black with red collar and pocket bearing the golden lion.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Loftus Library, many thanks to Bill Kitching and Eric Johnson for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the North Riding Shield (Donnison Cup) which they played at North Skelton.<\/p>\n<p>Back Row: Mr Jack Bowles, Mr Miles Mourne, Billy Cuthbert, Lewis Matthews, Ernie Wood, Joe Fenby, Harry Webster, Mr French (Headteacher), Mr Bert Davy. Middle Row: Billy Dobson, John Cockburn, Ben Scott, Jackie Legg, Ivor Stonehouse. Front: Tom Kitching, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loftus-seniorcounty-modern-school","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55625"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79455,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55625\/revisions\/79455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}