THE CITY WERE BEATEN BUT NOT DISGRACED. BROWN HAS A GOOD GAME AND SCORES EXETER'S GOAL.

Saturday January 20th 1962.

CREWE ALEXANDRA 3
(McGill, Haydock, Smith) 
EXETER CITY 1
(Brown)

Played at Gresty-road, attendance 3,500.

Crewe Alexandra:- Ferguson; McGill and Campbell; Keery, Barnes, and Tighe;
Haydock, Wheatley, Lord, Reilly, and Smith.

Exeter City: Jones; Whitnall and Hudson; Hughes, Harvey, and Sullivan; McMillan, Welsh, Brown, Carter, and Jenkins.

Referee:- Mr A.Sparling, of Grimsby.

Crewe won their game against Exeter City with two goals to spare, but were not that margin better than their visitors. The City soon equalised when Crewe opened the scoring in the tenth minute and played the more attractive football for the first half an hour. But just before the interval Crewe added two more goals, and these gave them a comfortable and commanding lead. There was only a small crowd of onlookers when the teams came out on to a ground made very soft and spongy by morning rain and with every likelihood of being a churned-up quagmire by the end of the match. The City were the first to make any impression when Carter slipped the ball out to Jenkins but the winger's centre was too close to the goalkeeper, who stepped out to clear as Brown came hurtling in to finish up entangled in the goal net. Exeter, whose best players were Brown, Jones, and Carter, were not disgraced by this defeat, although they tired on the heavy ground towards the end.