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England basketball players, 1965
Fourth-year pupils Peter Klikucs, left, and Bogden Bossowski had the distinction of being selected to represent England Schoolboys at basketball at under-15 level. They played a number of times including against Wales and Combined Services and were on the court at the same time. To have two boys from the same school playing for England was quite remarkable. What’s more, they were in the same class, 4G, and in class photographs for the first three years stood next to each other on the back row.
England basketball champions, 1965
The school’s under-15 team, which included Peter Klikucs and Bogden Bossowski, won the All-England Championship Cup as well as the Manchester Catholic Championship in what was a highly successful season.
Basketball successes
Season 1964-65 was highly successful for the school’s basketball teams and for a number of individual players who were selected for various regional and national teams. The full list of these achievements and honours can be viewed in the Speech Day programme of July 1965. Credit for these successes was in no small part due to the expert coaching, drive and enthusiasm of Mr Gerry Quinn, head of PE, who would shortly be leaving the school in order to take up a position at Christ’s College of Education, Liverpool.
East Area football squad, 1964-65
Standing, from left: Cliffe, Kevin Kay (St Gregory’s Tech.), Kelly, Flynn, Stahler, Anthony Ruane (St Gregory’s Tech), Seaton.
Seated, from left: Williams, Ramshead, Fitzgerald, Hatton, Hudson, Johnson.
East area schools at this time comprised the following:
Openshaw Technical High School, St Gregory’s Technical High School, Birley Secondary School (Boys), Grange Secondary School (Boys), Higher Openshaw Secondary School, Ravensbury Secondary School (Boys), Wheler Secondary School, Nicholls Secondary School (Boys), Gorton C.E. Secondary School, St Anne’s (Ancoats) R.C. (B.) School, St John the Evangelist Secondary Boys’ School, St Francis R.C. Secondary School.
Manchester Boys, 1964-65
Standing, from left: Mr J.D. Murphy, John McMahon (All Hallows), Geoff Appleby (Moss House), Howard Johnstone (Yew Tree), Richard Martin (Chorlton Park.), Ian Boot (Yew Tree), Alan Smith (Wythenshawe Tech.), Robert Loftus (Newall Green), Lee Joyce (Wythenshawe Tech.), Brian Woods (New Moston), Mr H. Roberts.
Seated, from left: Alan Lord (Newton Heath Tech.), Mr J. Shaw, David Hatton (Openshaw Tech.), Mr W. Bollom, Thomas Cox (Ryder Brow), Mr E.H. Wetton, Chris Glennon (St Gregory’s Tech.).
Kneeling, from left: Michael Gee (Central Grammar), Arthur Jackson (St Francis’), Graham Paddon (Chorlton Grammar), William Beswick (St Clement’s).
McMahon, Smith, Glennon and Woods won county badges.
F.A. Youth Challenge Cup – Second Round
This tie, between Manchester City and Manchester United youth teams, was played on Monday, 11th December 1965 at Maine Road. Playing for City was Chris Glennon of St Gregory’s. The line-up, which included stars of the future, was as follows:
Mercer and Allison visit
Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison, manager and assistant manager respectively of Manchester City, paid a visit to St Gregory’s and met Mr McGawley to discuss the possibility of Chris Glennon signing for City as a professional footballer. Eventually signing for City, Chris developed into a fine centre forward and had the knack of being a prolific goal scorer for youth and reserve teams. Unfortunately, he was unable to reproduce his form when given first-team opportunities, which were few in number. Between 1969 and 1971 he played on the City first team on only four occasions, failing to score any goals.
Second year football team, 1965-66
Winners of the Manchester Schools’ Trophy (under-13s), 1966.
Back row, from left: Mr Paul Berry, Colin Jones, Mike Hughes, Tadjeusz Kucharczyk, Tom O’Donnell, John Coyle, Paul McGeein.
Front row, from left: Michael Cassidy, Frank Scala, Steve Carroll, Ged Baker, Patrick O’Neill.
Mr Berry taught at the school from 1964-66.
After a somewhat barren first year at the Plymouth Grove annexe, this group of players (with others) became one of the most successful soccer teams in the school’s history. Among their later successes were the following:
1966-67, 3rd Year: winners of the Manchester Cup
1967-68, 4th Year: winners of the Manchester Cup, Catholic Cup and Lancashire Cup
1968-69, 5th Year: winners of the Manchester Cup.
In the season 1967-68, the 4th year soccer team had tremendous success, winning the Lancashire Schools’ Championship, Manchester Under-15s’ Championship and shared the Payne Shield after a draw in the final.
Manchester Schools’ Football Association Handbook, 1965-66
The 48-page handbook was packed with useful information. Although the logo remained the same, the design of the front cover changed each year.
East Area football squad, 1965-66
Back row, from left: O’Neill, Cleminson, Richard Tarnowski, Robert Gibson, John Kubacki (all St Gregory’s Tech.), Stearns, O’Shea, Hudders.
Front row, from left: Mark Smith (St Gregory’s Tech.), Malloy, Irvine, Harrop, Elvey.
Also played: Kevin Crumblehulme (St Gregory’s Tech.), Robinson, Beard.
First Division Shield Winners, 1965-66
Back row, from left: P. Golding, Michael Malone, Kevin Edwards, John Kubacki, J. Blackwall, D. Dewar, Mr K. Horrocks.
Seated, from left: P. Warburton, Richard Tarnowski, Robert Gibson, Mark Smith, Kevin Quigley, Kevin Crumblehulme.
Front row, from left: Ian McLaughlin, Michael Valleley.
Manchester Boys, 1965-66
Back row, from left: Kevin Kay (St Gregory’s Tech.), W. Taylor (Spurley Hey), Ken Goodeve (Baguley Hall), John Dillon (Ardwick Tech.), Rodney Griffin (Brookdale Park), Derek Jeffries (Victoria Park), Joe Makin (St Anne’s, Newton Heath).
Front row, from left: Gary Jones (Wythenshawe Tech.), J. Williams (Birley), Ray Hatton (Openshaw Tech.), Peter Denham (Barlow Hall), Ray Ramshead (Openshaw Tech.), Paul Dolan (St Patrick’s), David Hudson (Openshaw Tech.).
Another Gregorian to play for the team was A. Ruane.
In addition, M. Smith (St Gregory’s) was captain of the Manchester Junior Boys team in that season.
First Division Shield winners, 1966-67
Standing, from left: Mr J. Baxter, Mullins, Henry, Scala, Carroll, McLaughlin, O’Donnell, Cassidy.
Seated, from left: Hughes, Judge, Carroll, Baker, Coyle.
Manchester Boys, 1966-67
Back row, from left: T. Mulloy (St Francis), A. Wilson (Yew Tree), A. Costello (Spurley Hey).
Middle row, from left: Mr J.D. Murphy, Mr E.W. Wetton, R. Tarnowski (St Gregory’s Tech.), R. France (Oldwood), R. Healey (Newall Green), L. Popovic (Central Grammar), I. Wilson (Burnage Grammar), A. Young (Chorlton Park), Mr J. Shaw.
Seated, from left: M. D’Amassa (Central Grammar), L. Ormrod (Old Moat), I. McMurdo (Plant Hill), M. Smith (St Gregory’s Tech.), Mr E. Drinkwater, P. Singleton (Central Grammar), L. Cantello (Albert Memorial), A. Towers (St Gerard’s), G. Patrick (Burnage Grammar).
Mark Smith also represented Lancashire.
Manchester Boys, 1967-68
Back row, from left: Stuart Curtin, Dean Hill, Michael Finn (St Gregory’s Tech.), Leslie Ormrod, Gary Crampton.
Front row, from left: Michael Wilson, Harold Pearson, Stephen Carroll (St Gregory’s Tech.), Leslie Milner, Alan Wilson, Tony Young.
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