Saturday, December 30th 1950.

Walsall v Exeter City,
at Fellows Park.

Exeter City's amazing away record continues. Skipper Angus Mackay and his colleagues were sufficiently endowed with Soccer craft to make the ball do the work on a treacherous playing pitch. They used skill to counter the determined but artless methods which the opposition employed, and a two goal triumph was the fitting reward for the superior tacticians and cleverer footballers. While Walsall were as good as Exeter in the territorial sense and Graham Lear had to handle the ball more often than Lewis the home side had their limitations. The veteran Don Dearson passed intelligently from his new position of left half. Walsall had an up and coming right half in Dean, and a fast moving outside right in Morris, but the team was weak in a number of key positions. No forward in the home ranks could compare with Mackay, elusive and sure footed on a surface which was ice bound beneath a thick layer of snow. Masterly in ball control and often bringing into play a deceptive body swerve with which to baffle the opposition, Mackay did a lot of foraging in this match. Up with his forward colleagues one minute, he was a useful support to his rearguard forces in the next. The other Exeter players to shine were Davey and Lear.

Walsall:- Lewis; Jones, Walters; Dean, Russon, Dearson; Morris, Mullard, Chapman, Devlin, Hughes.
Exeter City:- G. Lear; Warren, Clark; Fallon, Doyle, Davey; McClelland, Mackay, Smith, Lynn, Regan. Referee:- Mr H.Holt, of Rochdale.

The City scored once in each half. Mackay shot the first after a centre from Regan came back into the goal area off McClelland's foot. Smith netted the second from close range after Walters had miskicked.

Attendance 4,275, receipts £268.
Walsall 0 Exeter 2.


At St James's Park,
City Reserves 1 (Greenaway)
Gravesend 0.