Isn't 2013...

Biscuit_Boy
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Re: Isn't 2013...

by Biscuit_Boy » 29 Dec 2014 12:36

The Cube
The Cube

Presumably taken before the game against Genoa. Text says "The Reading team play today in Turin against our national eleven."

I had a request for the line-up against Genoa to see if it could match up with the picture. Didn't attempt this myself because my facial recognition ability from photos is pretty awful. Anyway, none of the Reading papers had a full line-up, but I found a line-up in an Italian paper (2-3-5 formation, of course):

Dr J H Burnham
Jack Smith - Charlie Stevens
Jock Comrie - Ted Hanney - Dave Willis
J Morris - Joe Bailey - Ivor Brown - A Burton - Jimmy Lofthouse

Others who travelled:
Fred Bartholomew, Joe Dickinson, Alan Foster

May have travelled (Reading papers say didn't):
R G Prinfield

Reading scorers:
2 Reading papers plus one Italian paper say Joe Bailey (2), Ivor Brown, Jimmy Lofthouse
1 Reading paper says Joe Bailey, Jimmy Lofthouse, A Burton, Ted Hanney

Genoa line-up:
Surdez
Casanova - De Vecchi
Schmidt - Mitchell - Crocco 1
Hector Eastwood - MacPherson - Attilio Fresia - Maranghi - Percy Walsingham

Hector Eastwood, MacPherson, Percy Walsingham and Mitchell were British. Schmidt and the goalkeeper don't sound very Italian either. And their manager (and the referee of the game) was Willy Garbutt. Garbutt was ex-Reading and Fresia was signed by Reading after the tour (first Italian player in England, but not a success).


The players left to right are (I think): Smith, Lofthouse, Burton, Willis, Hanney, Burnham, Stevens, Comrie, Bailey, Brown and Morris.

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