Category: History

The following servicemen had at some point in their careers, played for Queen’s Park Rangers Football Club, and all tragically lost their lives serving their country: Albert Edward Bonass, Corporal Albert ‘Ben’ Butler, Frank Cannon, Charlie Clarke, Joseph Dines, Albert Edwards, Alan Fowler, Oscar Horace Stanley Linkson, Evelyn Henry Lintott, Robert McLaren Law, John H. Continue reading

The pic shown below was taken from a local newspaper and loaned to me by Keith Davies. It must date from around 1963 and shows Stuart Leary and Peter Angell signing a football. Both players have signed Keith’s pic. Peter Angell was signed from Slough Town in 1953 and went on to make 457 appearances Continue reading

Team: Webb, Smith, Ainsworth, Handford, Mitchell, Philpot, Perry, Skilton, Hitchcock, Theobald, Stagg. A Rangers reserve side travelled to Southall on 21st September 1907. The following match report appeared in the Middlesex & Surrey Express the following week: ‘Played at Western-road, Southall, on Saturday when the homesters achieved a brilliant victory. The visitors brought a strong Continue reading

The Bournemouth home match programme dated 1st May 1946, stated that: ‘The team were called upon to play four vital league matches in six days, pack their bags and leave by air for Hamburg the following day to play the B.A.O.R. (British Army of the Rhine) side on Wednesday, returning by air Thursday. (Shown above Continue reading

Team: Parkes, Clement, Gillard, Venables (Busby), Mancini, McLintock, Thomas, Francis, Leach, Bowles, Givens Attendance: 19,795 Rangers took on Derby County at Loftus Road on 30th March 1974. John Oakley wrote the following match report for the ‘Evening News’: ‘Queen’s Park Rangers and Derby, both with their eyes on Europe, failed to produce the good football Continue reading

Team: Brown, Woods, Ingham, Nicholas, Powell (M), Angell, Kerrins, Smith, Clark, Cameron, Shepherd Attendance: 6,478 On 19th February 1955, the Rangers took on Norwich City at Loftus Road. The following match report appeared later that day in the Eastern Football News (the Pink Un): ‘In Artic conditions that made the lot of both spectators and Continue reading

Team: Springett, Watson, Langley, Keen, Hunt, Hazell, Collins, Allen, McAdams, Sanderson, Morgan (R). Substitute: Morgan (I) Attendance: 20,478 (match receipts £3,596) Rangers had suffered a 1-6 defeat at Griffin Park on the opening day of the season, which was followed by an impressive 4-1 home win over Brighton. Five days later the R’s went down Continue reading

Team: Mason, Smith (N), Jefferson, March, James, Moralee, Cape, Clarke, Prior, Lowe, Bott Attendance: 14,142 Rangers took on Mansfield Town at Loftus Road on 9th October 1937. The following match report later appeared in the Mansfield Reporter: ‘Having made Notts County gallop all the way on Thursday, Mansfield did not face Queen’s Park Rangers without Continue reading

Team: Parkes, Clement, Hazell, Delve (Beck), Mancini, McLintock, Thomas, Francis, Leach, Bowles, Givens Attendance: 15,843 Rangers took on Sheffield United at Loftus Road on 8th December 1973. The match programme apologised for the absence of any colour photos, which was due to the National Power Crisis at the time. The following match report appeared in Continue reading

This very unusual story was written by John Thompson and appeared in the ‘Daily Mirror’ on 14th January 1948: ‘Famous Soccer players on the staff of a Football League club in London took part in an identity parade in their dressing room yesterday. Queen’s Park Rangers had volunteered to parade to help one of their Continue reading