Exeter City Defeat Notts County.
Friendly Match At St James's Park.

Saturday December 6th

Exeter City in beating Notts County by 2 goals to 0 at St James's Park this afternoon showed that they will be far from outclassed if they get promotion to the Third Division. Hill and Rutter each gave a good performance for the City, and it was the tall Weishman who scored Exeter's first goal. Graham Rees, a much shorter Welshman, nodded in the second from Hill's cross.

Exeter City:- Hunter; Rutter, MacDonald; Mitchell, Oliver, John; Stiffle, Rees, Hill, Nicholls, Calland.

Notts:- Linton; Kilford, Cruickshank; Sheridan, Butler, Loxley; Roby, Horobin, Newsham, Carver, Bircumshaw.

By previous agreement both sides made changes at half-time. For Exeter Cleverly and Atkins came on for John and Stiffle. Notts had Newsham at inside left, Chatham at right back, Rawson at centre half and Parry at centre forward. Attendance 3,000, gate £319. 18. 3d.

8th December 1958
South Western League Cup
Camelford (h)

Camelford made them fight for points

Exeter City A 5, Camelford 4

Exeter had to fight very hard for these points. Three times they were behind and pulled up to draw. Then just before half- time they scored to take the lead. Centre-forward Brian Western could not play in the second half through an injury to a toe, but the ten men fought hard. Eventually Camelford scored the equaliser. Tony Cruz, Exeter's young student, playing his final match for City before returning to Spain, smashed in Exeter's last goal some two minutes before the end.

Exeter's other scorers were Western (2), Cragg and Spurle. For Camelford, Burnett scored three goals and Murphy got the other one.

10th December 1958
SL Inter Zone Competition
Trowbridge (a)


Lack of stamina would seem to be the reason for Lrowbridge Town's unnecessary defeat by 1-0 by Exeter City Reserves in the Southern League inter-zone competition at the Town ground on Wednesday. In the muddy conditions I rowbridge were eventually beaten down after looking the better team in the first half. At the final whistle they were trailing behind the far fresher Exeter forwards. For most of the first half Trowbridge were controlling the play, and particularly in the first 15 minutes the for- wards peppered the Exeter goal with shots, none of which had enough force to get past keeper Lobbett. Lambden and Murphy came extremely near to scoring, while Hill and Willey kept in the picture with vigorous replies. Robinson also came near to scoring when he put a pass from Pullman across the rowbride goal. On the whole, rowbridge were more versatile in their control of the greasy ball in this phase, but Excle soon settled down, and Trowbridge scoring chances began to vanish. This was demonstrated when two powerful shots in quick succession fr. m Pullman and Robinson kept Connor busy. Atkins, of Exeter, found difficulty in controlling the greasy ball in the mudbaths that developed in front of the goals, when, with the ball at his feet and the empty Trowbridge goal in front of him, he spun the leather out of play a few minutes from the interval. A goal at the beginning of the second half would have worked wonders for interest in the game, which had, by then, lost that interest which had been promised in the opening minutes. With- out any score the game became a dreary struggle in the mud. Willey, of Exetch. and Murphy, for Trowbridgel, seemed the two most active players on the field, but it was Robinson who sealed Trowbridge fate when he sent a ground shot at Connor, who let it through his hands and knees. Even after this the game had little interest, and the home forwards efforts to equalise were not supported enough to be ever really dangerous.

Exeter City v Southport 

Thompson Of Oldham Athletic Joins Exeter City. And Plays A Good Game Against Southport.

Saturday December 13th 1958

Exeter City on Thursday succeeded in signing the player they admire so much following his brilliant displays for Oldham Athletic against them earlier in the season. He was included in the team at left half today at St James's Park, where Southport provided the opposition, and had an excellent game. In part exchange for Thompson the City have had to part with Ray John, a capable and adaptable player, who in three and a half years at Exeter has played in practically every position on the field. It remains to be seen as to which of the two clubs has got the best of the bargain.

Exeter City: Hunter; Foley, MacDonald; Mitchell, Oliver, Thompson; Stiffle, Rees, Calland, Nicholls, Dale.
Southport:- Richardson; Dodd, Rankin; Parkinson, Darvell, Hitchen; Schofield, Kinloch, Smith, Morgan, McDermott.

Exeter won by 3 - 2 but after Mitchell with a penalty had scored for them goals by Dodd and McDermott put the visitors in front. It was left to Johnny Nicholls to fire home the two goals by which Exeter eventually won.

Southern League
Weymouth v City Reserves 
The Reserve team, at Weymouth, made a draw 1-1.

Robinson scored for the reserves.


South Western League
Launceston (a)

Launceston were too good for Exeter City "A," winning by a comfortable 4-1 margin. Willey scored for Exeter.