Saturday, November 8th 1947.

EXETER CITY 2 Mackay, Hutchings

NORWICH CITY 0

Half-time City 2 Norwich 0.
League 3rd Division South, at St James's Park.
Attendance 9,000.

City: Singleton; Thompson, Johnstone; Bartholomew, Gibson, Walker; Hutchings, Mackay, Smart, Wright, Regan.
Referee:Mr H.F.Hauxwell,West Wickham
Norwich:- Nethercott; Mansfield, Tobin; Kinsey, Low, Guy; Morgan, Dutton, Church, Eyre, Jones.

Exeter City's sparkle matched the brilliance of the late autumn sunshine in an inspired opening 30 minutes against Norwich. The City scored twice, overwhelmed the opposition, and played their best football of the season during that period. Apart from Nethercott the Norwich defenders had no effective counter to the Grecians' dashing play and cunningly planned attacks in the early stages. There was some confusion over the scorer of the first goal, but it was confirmed that Guy under pressure from Mackay had kicked the ball into his own net. No such doubts arose when the City scored again seven minutes later,
and Hutchings gave further evidence of his ability to snap up chances by driving Walker's centre into an unguarded net. Nethercott, whose only fault it was, was tempted to leave his charge by a high centre from the Exeter captain which he had no hope of reaching. Johnstone was injured in the last minute of the game when he got a kick on the knee and had to be carried off by the St John Ambulance men.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Cheltenham Town 1 (Crowe)
City Reserves 1 (Fallon penalty).

Team:- Hoyle; Coles, S.Rowe; Evans, Davey, Jeffrey; Boylin, Dymond, Sutherland, Grant, W.Fallon.

Played at Cheltenham, attendance 3,000.