Saturday February 25th 1956
at Loftus-road, London.

QUEEN'S PARK RANGERS 1
(Cameron)
EXETER CITY 0.

Half-time 1-0.

Fifth from bottom of the Third Division, seven defeats in eight games, the latest cheerless chapter was added to City's black book on Q,P.R, s bare icy pitch, Notn uch more than three minutes after the kick off, Pounder passed to his partner Longbottom, he had the better of the arguement with Walton and crossed the ball hard, Hunter went forward and up for it, but a split second speedier than him was Cameron who headed the ball into the net.

The absolute total of City's scoring attempts were, three shots, one deflected and two wide, and one header by Sword. At the other end Longbottom missed an absolute sitter. Hunter made half a dozen y saves and Doyle cleared off the line twice, Rangers could not be called a good team. It was just that they were a team as a combined cohesive unit, City were non existent. City's biggest weakness was on the right where the Dunne, SimpsonIggledon trio did little to useful purepose in City's causeWalton improved on a poor first half. Neither John, Houghton or Rees did anything likely to set the Thames on fire, Hunter, Doyle and Harvey were without a serious flaw in their armour, Sword on his debut showed energy, fair ball control and fair distribution. 

Rangers:- Brown; Woods, Ingham; Petchey, Rutter, Angell; Pounder, Longbottom, Cameron, Smith, Hellawell. Exeter City:- Hunter; Doyle, Walton; Dunne, Harvey, John; Simpson, Iggleden, Sword, Houghton, Rees.

Attendance 6,859,

Mr G.Porter, the Taunton referee, travelled to the Rangers ground in Loftus-road, West London, early today, and although the surface was bone-hard, immediately pronounced that the ground was fit for play. The match was won and lost early on, Cameron heading the ball through Exeter's goal in the third minute. Two forwards made their 3rd Division debuts in this match, Alan Sword, the 21 year old centre-forward, for the City, and Michael Hellawell, who is only 17, for the Rangers. Among the spectators was the Football Association Secretary, Sir Stanley Rous, who was a "star" goalkeeper for St Luke's College when he was a student at Exeter.

Southern League

City Reserves 2-0 Tonbridge 

EXETER CITY RESERVES
Lobbett, Foley, Parr; Marsh, Packer, Murphy: Thomas, Worthington, Burke, Farnell, Whiteside,

• Ray Farnell was an A team player,