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1962–63 Colchester United F.C. season

Football club season of 1962-63

Field	Value
club	Colchester United
season	1962–63
chairman	Bill Allen
manager	Benny Fenton
stadium	Layer Road
league	Third Division
league result	12th
cup1	FA Cup
cup1 result	1st round
(eliminated by
Wimbledon)
cup2	League Cup
cup2 result	2nd round
(eliminated by
Northampton Town)
league topscorer
Martyn King (26)
season topscorer
Martyn King (28)
highest attendance	7,244
v Southend United, 4 May 1963
lowest attendance	3,059
v Bradford Park Avenue, 15 December 1962
average attendance	5,313
largest win	4–1
v Brighton & Hove Albion, 10 November 1962
largest loss	0–6
v Notts County, 17 May 1963
pattern_name1	Home
pattern_la1	_white_stripes
pattern_b1	_whitestripes3
pattern_ra1	_white_stripes
pattern_so1	_color_2_stripes_blue
leftarm1	0000FF
body1	0000FF
rightarm1	0000FF
shorts1	000000
socks1	FFFFFF
alt1	Football kit (white jersey with blue, vertical stripes; black shorts; and white socks with two blue, horizontal hoops).
prevseason	1961–62
nextseason	1963–64

(eliminated by Wimbledon) (eliminated by Northampton Town) Martyn King (26) Martyn King (28) v Southend United, 4 May 1963 v Bradford Park Avenue, 15 December 1962 v Brighton & Hove Albion, 10 November 1962 v Notts County, 17 May 1963 The 1962–63 season was Colchester United's 21st season in their history and their first season back in the third tier of English football following promotion from the Fourth Division the previous season. Alongside competing in the Third Division, the club also participated in the FA Cup and the League Cup. Colchester consolidated their Third Division return by finishing mid-table. In the cups, they bowed out in the first round of the FA Cup to Isthmian League side Wimbledon, while they overcame Watford in the first round of the League Cup only to crash out to Northampton Town in the second.

Season overview

Despite debts of £2,000, the club were not prepared to sell prize forward Bobby Hunt when Newcastle United came in with an offer of £17,000.

During the season, Colchester made their television debut when they featured in the new Anglia Television programme Match of the Week. Highlights were shown on 13 October 1962 of Colchester's Layer Road defeat to Crystal Palace. Martyn King was back on top of the scoring charts for Colchester, leading the way with 26 league goals, Hunt following up with 19. With the defence shipping 93 goals across the season, a mid-table finish loomed for Colchester on their return to the Third Division after just one year away. However, in the FA Cup, they were ousted by Isthmian League Wimbledon in the first round, while they also experienced a second round exit in the League Cup to Northampton Town.

Players

Transfers

In

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee
Summer 1962	FB	ENG	David Laitt	Amateur	Free transfer
18 August 1962	WG	ENG	Mike Grice	ENG Coventry City	£1,000
1 September 1962	WH	ENG	Roy McCrohan	ENG Norwich City	Part exchange with Mike Foster
November 1962	FW	SCO	Billy Stark	ENG Carlisle United	£3,750
26 February 1963	CB	ENG	Keith Rutter	ENG Queens Park Rangers	£4,000
15 March 1963	GK	SCO	George Ramage	SCO Third Lanark	Nominal

Total spending: ~ £8,750

Out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee
End of season	WG	ENG	Colin Lundstrum	ENG Clacton Town	Released
Summer 1962	FB	ENG	Alf Marshall	ENG Clacton Town	Released
Summer 1962	WG	ENG	Tony Howe	ENG Haverhill Rovers	Released
1 September 1962	CF	ENG	John Baines	ENG Lexden Wanderers	Free transfer
1 September 1962	WG	ENG	Mike Foster	ENG Norwich City	£3,000 plus Roy McCrohan
20 October 1962	CF	ENG	David Coleman	ENG Clacton Town	Released
3 November 1962	WH	SCO	John Brown	SCO Stenhousemuir	Released
December 1962	IF	SCO	Sammy McLeod	ENG Romford	£1,000
April 1963	WH	ENG	Brian Abrey	Retired	Retired
16 April 1963	WH	ENG	Trevor Harris	ENG Chelmsford City	Free transfer

Total incoming: ~ £4,000

Match details

Third Division

Main article: 1962–63 Football League

Results round by round

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League table

Matches

Report Grainger Poole Ford Hill Jones Wright Report Smith King B. Hunt Hill Allen McCrohan Gilchrist Jones Towers Haverty Hill King Grice Pountney R. Barnes Metcalf Hill Brayton Taylor

Sheavills Forbes McNamee King Hector Hannigan Bird Hale Humphries Wright Henderson R. Hunt Collins Cooper Grice Grice Report Stevens Hunt Nicholas King Harris

B. Hunt B. Hunt Rutter B. Hunt Stark Report Stark Report B. Hunt Bradford

League Cup

Main article: 1962–63 Football League Cup

King

FA Cup

Main article: 1962–63 FA Cup

Reynolds

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goalscorers

Place	Nationality	Position	Name	Third Division	FA Cup	League Cup	Total
1	ENG	CF	Martyn King	26	1	1	28
2	ENG	FW	Bobby Hunt	19	0	1	20
3	ENG	WG	Mike Grice	8	0	0	8
4	ENG	WG	Peter Wright	6	0	0	6
5	SCO	IF	Bobby Hill	4	0	0	4
6	SCO	FW	Billy Stark	3	0	0	3
7	ENG	WH	Ron Hunt	2	0	0	2
ENG	WH	Roy McCrohan	2	0	0	2
9	ENG	CF	David Coleman	1	0	0	1
	Own goals	2	0	0	2
	TOTALS	73	1	2	76

Clean sheets

Number of games goalkeepers kept a clean sheet.

Place	Nationality	Player	Third Division	League Cup	Total
1	ENG	Percy Ames	3	0	3
2	SCO	George Ramage	2	0	2
	TOTALS	5	0	5

Player debuts

Players making their first-team Colchester United debut in a fully competitive match.

Position	Nationality	Player	Date	Opponent	Ground	Notes
WG	ENG	Mike Grice	18 August 1962	Bradford Park Avenue	Park Avenue	Second debut for the club.
WH	ENG	Roy McCrohan	15 September 1962	Northampton Town	Layer Road
WH	SCO	John Brown	26 September 1962	Northampton Town	County Ground
FW	SCO	Billy Stark	1 December 1962	Peterborough United	London Road Stadium
CB	ENG	Keith Rutter	26 February 1963	Coventry City	Highfield Road
GK	SCO	George Ramage	15 March 1963	Halifax Town	The Shay

References

General

Books

Websites

Specific

References

(2008). "The Who's Who of Colchester United: The Layer Road Years". Breedon Books.
"Colchester Utd 3–1 Southend United". Coludata.co.uk.
"Colchester Utd 1–4 Bradford Park Avenue". Coludata.co.uk.
"Average Attendance Figures Per Season". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
Hudson, Matt. (11 July 2012). "The 1950s and 1960s". Colchester United FC.
"Appearances". Coludata.co.uk.
"David Laitt". Coludata.co.uk.
"Mike Grice". Coludata.co.uk.
"Roy McCrohan". Coludata.co.uk.
"Billy Stark". Coludata.co.uk.
"Keith Rutter". Coludata.co.uk.
"George Ramage". Coludata.co.uk.
"Colin Lundstrum". Coludata.co.uk.
"Alf Marshall". Coludata.co.uk.
"Tony Howe". Coludata.co.uk.
"John Baines". Coludata.co.uk.
"Mike Foster". Coludata.co.uk.
"David J Coleman". Coludata.co.uk.
"John Brown". Coludata.co.uk.
"Sammy McLeod". Coludata.co.uk.
"Brian Abrey". Coludata.co.uk.
"Trevor Harris". Coludata.co.uk.
"Goals". Coludata.co.uk.
"Clean sheets (1st team)". Coludata.co.uk.
"Alltime- List of Debuts". Coludaybyday.co.uk.
"Bradford Park Avenue 1–1 Colchester Utd". Coludata.co.uk.

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