CITY GET BACK TO THEIR WINNING FORMATION.

SATURDAY NOV. 9TH 1963

OXFORD 0 CITY 2 (CURTIS BANKS).

Exeter City badly wanted a win at Oxford this afternoon to keep up their position in the top half dozen in the Fourth Division. They started with high hopes because they had won on each of their two previous visits to the Oxford ground.
Oxford had the former City player Alan Willey in their side, and their supporters had a particular interest in Exeter's new inside forward signing, Alan Banks. For Oxford had also wanted to secure the transfer of Banks but were unable to afford the double fee to Cambridge City and Liverpool.

Oxford United: - Fearnley; Cassidy and Quartermain; Atkinson, Kyle, and Jones; Knight, Longbottom, Cornwell, Willey, and Harrington.

Exeter City: Barnett; Smyth and MacDonald; Mitchell, Harvey, and Anderson; Rees, Banks, Curtis, Grace, and Phoenix.

Referee:- Mr G. Davis, of Romford.

Right from the start Derek Grace dropped back and the City were at once set in their 4 - 2-4 system with Anderson and Harvey in the role of twin centre halves flanked by Smyth and MacDonald.

Curtis scored for the City after 30 minutes with a lobbed shot at 25 yards' range over the goalkeeper's head, and midway through the second half Banks dashed in and headed a perfect cross from Phoenix into the net to register goal number two.

There is no doubt that the system they employed today as on other occasions this season is the one for Exeter to stick with. Arnold Mitchell was the outstanding man of the match. He was in the game almost continuously and never wasted a ball. Next to him must rank Derek Grace, who played his role of link man to perfection.

Western League
EXETER CITY RESERVES 0
BARNSTAPLE 3
AT EXETER.

The City Reserves on their own ground crashed to Barnstaple, who scored once in the first half and twice in the second.

City Res:- May; Quarrington, Parsons; Rutley, Northcott, Gough; Stuckey, Spiers, Redwood, Symington, Ley.

Barnstaple:- Berry; Gray, Penford; Meadows, Hancock, Chapman; Marshall, Pulman, Langman, Fewings, Arundel.