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1st year football team, 1963-64
Standing, from left: Ian Horan, James Clough, Kevin Edwards, Michael Vallely, John Kubacki, Robert Gibson, Martin Conroy, Peter Craven, Mr K. Horrocks.
Seated, from left: Kevin Quigley, Kevin Crumblehulme, Paul Quiligotti, Mark Smith, Richard Tarnowski, Ian McLaughlin.
Manchester Boys, 1963-64
Standing, from left: D. Henshaw (St Patrick’s), A. Worthington (Central Gr), M. Cuerden (Burnage Gr), A. Wilding (Burnage Gr), M. Cassidy (New Moston), I. Brotherton (Sharston), A. Johnson (Chorlton Gr), A. Snape (Chorlton Cent).
Kneeling, from left: R. Hayes (Didsbury Cent), H. Carrington (Wheler St), F. Gill (Openshaw Tech), Brian Kidd (St Patrick’s), I. Mills (Moss Nook), S. Hunter (Chorlton Gr), J. Doyle (St Gregory’s Tech).
The shirts were multi-coloured, comprising red, yellow and black.
Nobby Lawton
Norbert (“Nobby”) Lawton was born in March 1940 in Newton Heath, Manchester, and would have attended St Gregory’s from 1951.
He began his football career with Manchester United, joining the club as an amateur in 1956. He was also involved in the club’s 1957 FA Youth Cup title. Following the Munich air disaster in 1958, Lawton gave up his job with a local coal merchant to sign professional forms with United.
Following a serious illness, he eventually made his debut for the first team in April 1960. Between 1960 and 1963 he made 36 appearances for United and scored six goals.
In March 1963 he was sold to Preston North End. In his first season at Preston, Lawton captained the Lancashire side to the FA Cup final, where they lost to Bobby Moore’s West Ham United side. He made 143 appearances for Preston and scored 22 goals. He later played for Brighton & Hove Albion before moving on to Lincoln City.
Nobby Lawton played for United in the old First Division in the early Sixties with and against some of the greatest players in post-war British football. However, it is as captain of Preston at Wembley in 1964 for which many people remember him.
In 2004, he attended the school’s annual reunion at St Kentigern’s Social Club in Fallowfield in the company of Bert Trautman, the great German-born goalkeeper who played for Manchester City for so many years. Photographers and autograph-hunters had a field day.
Manchester United, 1962-63
Back row, from left: Maurice Setters, Jimmy Nicholson, David Gaskell, Shay Brennan, Mark Pearson, Noel Cantwell.
Middle row, from left: Bill Foulkes, Sammy McMillan, Tony Dunne, Nobby Stiles, Nobby Lawton.
Seated, from left: Johnny Giles, Albert Quixall, David Herd, Denis Law, Bobby Charlton.
Captains’ handshake
Nobby Lawton, right, shakes hands with Bobby Moore before the start of the 1964 FA Cup final.
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