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Weekly Quiz: w/c 28 May

1. Which Lincoln City club record is held by Matt Rhead?

In the season in which Ollie Palmer set a new club record for appearances from the bench with 42 (37 in the league), Matt Rhead broke his own record for the most-substituted City player in a single season with 35 (31 in the league). He was substituted 29 times (22 in the league) in 2016-17, which was the previous record.

2. What was the long and the short of it in 1959-60?

City centre half Ray Long was 6'0" tall, while winger David Short was 5'4". Despite appearing regularly for the reserves together, they never appeared for the first team in the same game.

3. Which Lincoln City legend is now a director of a yacht charter business on the south coast?

Gordon Hobson (Fairview Sailing in Hamble).

4. What cost a penny between 1919 and 1939?

The match programme. Shortage of materials immediately after the war saw the price double to 2d. in 1946.

5. What two things is Elliott Whitehouse the only Lincoln City player to have done?

He is the only City player to score at Wembley (versus Shrewsbury in the Checkatrade Trophy Final on 8 April 2018) and the only one to score a goal for England C (versus Estonia in Tallinn on 15 November 2016).

6. Who was a really poor judge in 1985?

Goalkeeper Alan Judge, who joined City on loan from Oxford in November 1985. His debut was a 1-1 draw against Bristol City in front of one of Sincil Bank's lowest ever Football League attendances (1,379). Hs second game was a 7-0 defeat at Derby in which the Imps were lucky to get nil. Judge was one of four players never to play for the club again, the others being Mark McCarrick, Robert McNeil and Huddersfield loanee Ian Measham.

7. Which Lincoln City player was awarded the Military Medal and the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry?

Scottish left half George Kennedy, who is notable for being part of the City team that famously won at Chelsea in the FA Cup on 16 January 1907. After making 42 appearances for City, Kennedy moved to Chelsea in 1908 with manager David Calderhead before emigrating to Canada in 1914.

Enlisting in the Canadian Infantry, Kennedy rose to the rank of Company Sergeant Major in the 42nd Battalion (Royal Highlanders Regiment) and saw action at Ypres and the Somme before being killed at the Third Battle of Ypres on 16 November 1917, aged 35. He is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Ypres, Belgium.

8. The only time City's colours were not red and white was between 1897 and 1900 – what colours did they wear between those dates?

Green shirts, black shorts.

9. In which game did Lincoln score 7 in 21 minutes?

Apparently the home game against Halifax Town on 16 January 1932, although even contemporary reports of the match differ.

As far as I can determine, City led 2-1 at half time in a close game. Two minutes into the second half, Frank Keetley added a third to put the game beyond the visitors. What happened next was a complete capitulation as City added six more – five of them from Keetley - by the midway point of the second half. The other goal was scored by Harold Riley, who had also scored in the first half. Ironically, Halifax had been the only team to stop Lincoln scoring that season to date, in a 3-0 win at The Shay in September.

Some reports simply say that Lincoln scored seven 'in the second half'; some that Lincoln got six in 21 minutes and that Keetley got all six; the half-time score has also been reported as both 2-1 and 2-0. A classic example of how the standard of reporting could vary, dependent on whether the publication concerned actually had a reporter at the game or not.

What is certain, is that the win sent City to the top of the Third Division North table after previous leaders Gateshead lost at Barrow. City and Gateshead proceeded to swap the lead until City secured the title on the penultimate day with a goalless draw at home to Wrexham. Having had four points taken from them following the mid-season collapse of Wigan Borough (who had notably beaten Gateshead), City's championship on goal average was actually a more convincing affair than the black and white league table suggests.

Out of interest, City's win was not the highest score of the day. In the Scottish FA Cup first round, Hearts beat Lochgelly United 13-3 at Tynecastle, while Queen of the South set their record victory with an 11-1 away win at Stranraer.

We will look at another example of erroneous contemporary reports in next week's quiz.

10. Who is this? What distinction does he share with Graham Taylor?

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City striker Mick Waitt (pictured on the day he hit a hat-trick at Stafford on 5 September 1987). Waitt is one of only three Lincoln players to go on to become manager of an international team, the others being Taylor and instantly forgettable loanee Steve McLaren. Waitt and Taylor are the only two contracted to Lincoln to achieve the feat. Waitt became a coach in New Zealand after retiring from playing and managed the national team between 2002 and 2004 before leaving football to join the New Zealand police force.

Next quiz on Monday.
 
I knew very few of them - hopefully I'll have a better idea next week!

I would be surprised if many on here can answer more than a couple each time without resorting to reference books. Because we have been doing these for three or four years, we have moved way past the Andy Graver/Grant Brown/Graham Taylor questions. What I try to do now is find questions that have interesting answers - interesting stories that will hopefully share information on the club's history. Lots of that is being lost all the time, and the more we can preserve, the better.
 
Indeed.

I like the story type ones. Hopefully I'll still be around in 50 odd years and discussing 2016/17 with the younger lot!