away shirts from the 60's

[WhiteJC]

Hi guys

as some of you know I've a passion for creating electronic representations of our kit throughout the years, see these examples...

http://www.friendsoffulham.com/avatar_shirts.php

... so I was intrigued when I stumbled across this 1960's away kit

I have a couple of questions
anyone remember this kit? I remember us playing in a dark blue shirt (with the club bags on a white background) but not this shirt with white sleeves

anyone know who the player is?

rgds
WhiteJC

[RaySmith]

I remember the dark blue 60's away shirt, but not if it had white sleeves or not.

The Fulham player is Haynes isn't it?-the Spurs player may be Baker.

Great work on all the  shirts White JC -thanks.

[Vienna1]

Most interesting work, thanks. Great! We have been the Whites for a long time now (considering the shirts that is). Around 1900 we obviously looked like Arsenal... And from 1889 to 1896 like Newcastle.
Do you know how the white shirts came about?

[cookieg]

Similar question re away shirts is the one red and black stripped shirt that Toffs do from '75. It has a badge, now I never remember there being a badge and certainly not in any of the pictures I have seen. Anyone remember a badge being on that shirt?

[Maidstone Al]

Similar question re away shirts is the one red and black stripped shirt that Toffs do from '75. It has a badge, now I never remember there being a badge and certainly not in any of the pictures I have seen. Anyone remember a badge being on that shirt?

Your right ,no badge on the shirt .
Also , remember us playing at QPR in an FA cup game in the very early 1970's wearing blue and black striped shirts which I think may have belonged to rangers . Did we forget our away kit or told we couldn't wear our white shirts ?

[Holders]

That must precede the dark blue and light blue vertical stripes of around 1970.

[Holders]

Similar question re away shirts is the one red and black stripped shirt that Toffs do from '75. It has a badge, now I never remember there being a badge and certainly not in any of the pictures I have seen. Anyone remember a badge being on that shirt?

Also , remember us playing at QPR in an FA cup game in the very early 1970's wearing blue and black striped shirts which I think may have belonged to rangers . Did we forget our away kit or told we couldn't wear our white shirts ?Your right ,no badge on the shirt .

I was there. What happened was that we turned up with black and white which we'd used there in the past but the ref didn't like it. There was no time to send for another strip so we used QPR's away kit - black and red vertical stripes with white numbers. We won. That's how the away kit for the FA cup run came about.

[cookieg]

Is there a picture of all our away shirts like the home shirts one?

[Wolf]

TOFFS tend to add badges to shirts that were unbadged, in order to make them identifiable by club.

[WhiteJC]

in the 60's when I first bought a football shirt, you just bought the shirt, if you wanted a club badge that cost extra!

so if I'd wanted a Fulham home shirt and my mate wanted a Leeds or Spuds home shirt, we would have bought the same shirt and then (if our pocket money stretched) we'd buy the correct badge and ask Mum to sew it on.

simpler times, and the money men would say the clubs missed out on millions!

[Vienna1]

Similar question re away shirts is the one red and black stripped shirt that Toffs do from '75. It has a badge, now I never remember there being a badge and certainly not in any of the pictures I have seen. Anyone remember a badge being on that shirt?

Also , remember us playing at QPR in an FA cup game in the very early 1970's wearing blue and black striped shirts which I think may have belonged to rangers . Did we forget our away kit or told we couldn't wear our white shirts ?Your right ,no badge on the shirt .

I was there. What happened was that we turned up with black and white which we'd used there in the past but the ref didn't like it. There was no time to send for another strip so we used QPR's away kit - black and red vertical stripes with white numbers. We won. That's how the away kit for the FA cup run came about.

amazing tale!

[WhiteJC]

so here's my versions...

Holders, do you have a photo (long shot I know) of that blue and light blue kit, I'd love to add it to my collection

rgds
WhiteJC

[Fernhurst]

Hi guys

as some of you know I've a passion for creating electronic representations of our kit throughout the years, see these examples...

http://www.friendsoffulham.com/avatar_shirts.php

... so I was intrigued when I stumbled across this 1960's away kit

I have a couple of questions
anyone remember this kit? I remember us playing in a dark blue shirt (with the club bags on a white background) but not this shirt with white sleeves

anyone know who the player is?

rgds
WhiteJC

I think this is a picture of the famous game at White Hart Lane when Tony Macedo had a brain fart and forgot we had changed strip and rolled the ball out to the nearest white shirt which happened to be Jimmy Greaves..... Whack 1-0

Very Fulhamish

[Fernhurst]

Johnny Haynes and Peter Baker ??

[mouse]

What I can remember from '65 onwards it was an all red kit with the badge emblazoned on a white square.

[LBNo11]

...in our FA Cup run in the 1961=62 season we played Blackburn Rovers in the 6th round at home in a blue shirt and white shorts, but the shirt was blue with white trim on the sleeves - not all white as in the picture WhiteJC has unearthed (great find John!).

Check this link from the excellent site fulhamfootballprogrammes (lose yourself in learning the clubs history, Phil Cowan's site is a true labour of love):-

look at the teams page for our kit description.

http://www.fulhamfootballprogrammes.co.uk/eras/1961-1970/1961-1962/matches/Blackburn%20Rovers%20Cup/Programme.html

[HatterDon]

brilliant work as always

[LBNo11]

...also we played in an all blue strip in our exciting 4-3 loss at spurs in February 1966, where a certain Les Barrett scored his first goal for Fulham in only his third appearance, taking a Haynes pass and beating former Fulham player Mullery to the ball let loose a stunning shot to score after 30 minutes. In this game he was Les Barrett - No8..!

[Arthur]

I think this is a picture of the famous game at White Hart Lane when Tony Macedo had a brain fart and forgot we had changed strip and rolled the ball out to the nearest white shirt which happened to be Jimmy Greaves..... Whack 1-0

Is it the maestro? Is that our badge on the shirt? I remain to be convinced.

The game to which you refer, Fernhurst, (in which Greaves' goal was the equaliser in a 1-1 draw) took place on an afternoon in April. The picture above, however, must surely have been taken either at night time or during the darker winter months.

As has been pointed out elsewhere, we are known to have worn an all blue shirt with white collar and cuffs during the early 60s.

http://www.fulhamfootballprogrammes.co.uk/eras/1961-1970/1964-1965/matches/Leicester%20City/Programme.html (See page 5.)

This is also how the programme for that day describes our kit.

http://www.old-football-programmes.co.uk/tottenham-hotspur-spurs-fulham-13-April-1963#

Could TOFFS have come across this picture and merely guessed that it shows us?

[Holders]

so here's my versions...

Holders, do you have a photo (long shot I know) of that blue and light blue kit, I'd love to add it to my collection

rgds
WhiteJC

Sorry, JC, I don't. I only saw it in use once (at Brighton, I believe). Maybe the club has one (Ken Coton). Also, the kits from 1970 until the "staggered" FFC badge came in didn't bear the old, large, Haynes-era badge. Maybe that's what TOFFS offers but they had a version of the cross, shield and ship one. I no longer have my programmes from that era so can't check.