Post by jonw on Jul 6, 2013 20:47:58 GMT
Don't panic....you haven't missed anything today, but my ongoing research into the club's history has just uncovered a new record competitive record score for the club, due to a missing cup result being located for 1904.
Here is the press release in full that has just been released...
NEW RECORD COMPETITIVE SCORE FOR BRAINTREE TOWN!
There is a new record score in Braintree Town’s record books this week – without the first team playing a game!
Up until now it has been thought that the record competitive match victory was a 12-0 win over Thetford Town in the Eastern Counties League on 18th April 1936. However, there have been a few gaps in the records, mainly for friendly fixtures, and club historian Jon Weaver has continued his painstaking research to complete the gaps so that the first volume of the club’s history, covering the period 1898-1968 (The “Crittall” years), can be published.
Research has now uncovered a result for a match which was not previously known to have taken place. It was previously thought that the 1903-04 Braintree Trades Cup Final between Manor Works (Braintree Town’s original title) and Courtauld United was the only match played in the competition that year. It is now known that prior to that game, and not reported in all the local papers at the time, there was a semi-final tie between Albion Works and The Iron, at the former club’s Rayne Road ground in Braintree. This took place on 5th March 1904 with Iron winning 14-0. The goal scorers on this inauspicious occasion were Syd Butcher (3), Gill Coe (3), Ted Schooling (3), A. Pudney, Leonard Cross, Albert Dyson and Ed Hodges.
The fourteen goals mark Braintree’s highest competitive win and biggest winning margin, but aren’t quite enough to dislodge the record for the number of goals scored in a game. That still stands as the 15-3 victory over Hopes, a Birmingham based works company, in the 1938-39 season.
In modern times it would seem unlikely that the 14-0 or 15-3 scores will ever be beaten, although at the start of the 2012-13 season there was a 10-0 win at Long Melford. The record home defeat of 9-0 against a Charlton Athletic X1 was only five seasons ago, in the Steve Good Testimonial, so just occasionally big scores still turn up.
There are still a few results missing from the Iron records, although it is known that there are no double figure scores among the handful of missing league games and those friendly games that haven’t been uncovered by now are considered to be lost forever.
Jon Weaver said “I expect it will be several years before all the versions of our record score that are online and in print will be updated to accurately reflect this development. Until two years ago it was thought that Braintree’s record attendance was 4,000 for a charity game against Tottenham Hotspur in 1952. I then discovered that we also had a crowd of 4,000 for an Essex Senior Cup tie with Barking on 8th February 1936, but so far that fact is being overlooked. The eventual publication of the book will establish all the facts of a fascinating history once and for all”.
Here is the press release in full that has just been released...
NEW RECORD COMPETITIVE SCORE FOR BRAINTREE TOWN!
There is a new record score in Braintree Town’s record books this week – without the first team playing a game!
Up until now it has been thought that the record competitive match victory was a 12-0 win over Thetford Town in the Eastern Counties League on 18th April 1936. However, there have been a few gaps in the records, mainly for friendly fixtures, and club historian Jon Weaver has continued his painstaking research to complete the gaps so that the first volume of the club’s history, covering the period 1898-1968 (The “Crittall” years), can be published.
Research has now uncovered a result for a match which was not previously known to have taken place. It was previously thought that the 1903-04 Braintree Trades Cup Final between Manor Works (Braintree Town’s original title) and Courtauld United was the only match played in the competition that year. It is now known that prior to that game, and not reported in all the local papers at the time, there was a semi-final tie between Albion Works and The Iron, at the former club’s Rayne Road ground in Braintree. This took place on 5th March 1904 with Iron winning 14-0. The goal scorers on this inauspicious occasion were Syd Butcher (3), Gill Coe (3), Ted Schooling (3), A. Pudney, Leonard Cross, Albert Dyson and Ed Hodges.
The fourteen goals mark Braintree’s highest competitive win and biggest winning margin, but aren’t quite enough to dislodge the record for the number of goals scored in a game. That still stands as the 15-3 victory over Hopes, a Birmingham based works company, in the 1938-39 season.
In modern times it would seem unlikely that the 14-0 or 15-3 scores will ever be beaten, although at the start of the 2012-13 season there was a 10-0 win at Long Melford. The record home defeat of 9-0 against a Charlton Athletic X1 was only five seasons ago, in the Steve Good Testimonial, so just occasionally big scores still turn up.
There are still a few results missing from the Iron records, although it is known that there are no double figure scores among the handful of missing league games and those friendly games that haven’t been uncovered by now are considered to be lost forever.
Jon Weaver said “I expect it will be several years before all the versions of our record score that are online and in print will be updated to accurately reflect this development. Until two years ago it was thought that Braintree’s record attendance was 4,000 for a charity game against Tottenham Hotspur in 1952. I then discovered that we also had a crowd of 4,000 for an Essex Senior Cup tie with Barking on 8th February 1936, but so far that fact is being overlooked. The eventual publication of the book will establish all the facts of a fascinating history once and for all”.
