PRIMARY V.MALT SHOVEL ROVERSVENUE: PERROTT ST. PLAYING FIELDDATE: 10 APRIL 1953KICK-OFF: 5.30 P.M. The Team Goalkeeper Thomas Capanelli Right back Malcolm Prosser Left back Graham Glue Right half Trevor Darby Centre half Joey Skidmore Left half Arthur Toomey Outside right Edna May Prosser Inside right Me Centre forward Ronnie Horsfield Inside left Tommy Pye Outside left Wyatt Manager Mr S. Sorrell Girls did play football in those days. Not often, but now and then. Not many, but some. Girls did most things, of course: climbed trees, scrumped pears, got into fights. (Never got the cane, though, not from Mr Reynolds anyway.) Alice Bissell, Brenda’s cousin, was on probation for shoplifting. Joan Tripp had climbed into Danks’s on more than one occasion. And there were others.Well, we took a vote and between Spencer, ‘Baby’ Pye and Edna May, Edna May got it. I believe that for some of us the rebellious aspect of this choice appealed. We were a team of outlaws after all. Mr Cork would probably explode, pulverize the entire classroom when he heard.
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