Tofu Still Life
Hull versus The Soo, April 13, 1961
It’s the 1960-61 EPHL playoffs. Sault Ste. Marie Thunderbirds visit Hull-Ottawa.
The regular season ended March 19th with Hull in first place, Kitchener second, the Soo third and Kingston Frontenacs fourth. Under the screwy playoff logic of the day, first and second place met in one semi-final, and third and fourth in the other. Sault Ste. Marie won their series in five games. It took the Habs seven to eliminate Kitchener.
The 1960-61 Thunderbirds were a farm team of the Chicago Black Hawks. The Black Hawks, who had finished third in the NHL, were currently tied at two wins apiece with Detroit in the Stanley Cup finals, and would go on to win the Cup. In both 1959-60 and 1960-61 the EPHL playoffs went on longer than the NHL’s.
Past and future NHLers on the Thunderbirds roster were Eddie Kachur, Cliff Schmautz, Pat Stapleton, Merve Kuryluk, Dusty Blair, Matt Ravlich, Milan Marcetta, Alain Caron, Bob Wilson, Doug Robinson, Murray Hall, Denis DeJordy and Roy Edwards. The Thunderbirds’ top scorer in 1960-61, Fred Hilts, never played in the NHL.
This was Game One of the finals.
First period: goals by McCreary (Hull) and Rousseau (Hull).
Second period: goals by Smith (Hull) and Schmautz (Soo).
Third period: goals by Schmautz (Soo), Pennington (Hull), Gray (Hull), Kuryluk (Soo) and Skov (Hull).
Final score: 6 – 3.
The Hull-Ottawa Canadiens went on to win the Foley Memorial Trophy in seven games.
25 Bruyère Street
JEF United versus Mito HollyHock
JEF United really have no need for a second jersey, unless they play Australia. Source.
Morton travel to Stark’s Park for a match against Raith Rovers. Raith are fifth with 36 points and a 0 goal difference, Morton eighth, also with 36 points but -11 on goal difference. So far this season Raith have one win against Morton and two draws.
To equal last season’s point total and break even Morton must win every remaining game.
Raith Rovers won the Challenge Cup last weekend.
After last night’s result Ross County must win their last three matches and Morton lose their last four in order for the Staggies to finish higher than the Ton.
[Raith Rovers 3 – 2 Morton. Morton goals by Blues and Shaw. Morton cannot gain promotion.]
The other Championship matches:
Ayr United (6th) 0 – 3 Dunfermline Athletic (4th) (April 7)
Queen’s Park (7th) 1 – 0 Ross County (10th) (yesterday)
Ayr United (6th) [1 – 0] Arbroath (3rd)
Partick Thistle (2nd) [2 – 0] Dunfermline (4th)
St Johnstone (1st) [4 – 0] Airdrieonians (9th)
Other matches:
Elfsborg 2 – 0 Göteborg (April 6)
Elana Toruń [1 – 1] Lipno Stęszew
Fortuna Düsseldorf [1 – 2] Holstein Kiel
Göteborg [0 – 2] Häcken
Wick Academy [0 – 3] Buckie Thistle
[Brora Rangers win the Highland League.]
Linlithgow Rose [4 – 1] Clydebank
Greenock [2 – 3] Threave Rovers
Port Glasgow [3 – 1] Girvan
Coldstream [3 – 1] West Calder United
YSCC [0 – 2] ReinMeer Aomori (tomorrow)
Inter Toronto [2 – 2] HFX Wanderers [Goals by Sow and Ciccarelli.]
Inter Toronto is the latest guise of York United, the erstwhile York9 FC. Despite those two rebrandings they’re still at York Lions Stadium where they’ve always played. They were supposed to have moved to a new facility at Woodbine Raceway by now but there’s no firm date for that yet.
Scottish Junior Cup, SF, leg 1 (tomorrow):
Buchanhaven Hearts [1 – 1] Largs Thistle
Dundee North End [0 – 4] Auchinleck Talbot
J1 100 Year Vision League East (matchday 10):
JEF United Chiba (10th) [1 – 1] Mito HollyHock (8th) [Mito win on PK]
Machida Zelvia (3rd) [1 – 0] Kashiwa Reysol (7th)
Yokohama F Marinos (9th) [1 – 3] FC Tokyo (2nd)
Urawa Red Diamonds (6th) [1 – 1] Tokyo Verdy (5th) [Verdy win on PK] (tomorrow)
Kawasaki Frontale (4th) [0 – 2] Kashima Antlers (1st) (tomorrow)
2025-26 AFC Champions League Two, SF, leg 1:
Gamba Osaka 0 – 1 Bangkok United (April 8)
Video: Eduardo Souto de Moura talks about designing Braga Stadium.
Historical matches:
1891/4/11 Morton 3 – 1 Partick Thistle
1931/4/11 Morton 1 – 2 Aberdeen
1953/4/11 Morton 6 – 1 Ayr United
1981/4/11 Rangers 2 – 1 Morton (Sc Cup SF)
SFL results 1890-91:
1891/4/11 Celtic 1 – 0 Dumbarton
1891/4/11 St Mirren 3 – 2 Hearts
1891/4/11 Cowlairs 2 – 2 Third Lanark
1891/4/11 Cambuslang 4 – 5 Abercorn
1000 Francs d’Outre-Mer
One thousand francs, or ten new francs, issued in 1960 in the French Caribbean. The man is wearing a salakot, a bamboo hat covered in madras cloth, worn by fishermen in Les Saintes near Guadeloupe, but invented in the Philippines and adopted by French troops in Indochina, who then introduced it to the Caribbean. Source.
Prognosticators
The Ubiquitous Chip
Horse and Train
Sentimental Value by Chris Ware
West End FC
West End FC existed from 1873 till 1878. They played at Burnbank Park in Glasgow’s Woodlands neighbourhood at first, and at Avenue Park in Cowlairs from 1876 to 1878. West End (Greenock) is a different club.
West End FC (Cowlairs) 1877-78:
1877/12/1 West End 2 – 1 Havelock (at Towerhill Park)
1877/10/6 Havelock 1 – 0 West End
1877/9/29 Strathclyde 5 – 1 West End (Sc Cup R1)
(Sources: The Beautiful Dribbling Game for the Scottish Cup; the Glasgow Herald for the rest.)
West End FC (Cowlairs) 1876-77:
1876/11/18 Edinburgh Swifts 1 – 1 West End (West End disqualified) (Sc Cup R3)
1876/10/28 Govan 0 – 1 West End (Sc Cup R2 replay)
1876/10/21 West End 2 – 2 Govan (Sc Cup R2)
1876/9/30 West End 2 – 0 4th RRV (Sc Cup R1)
(Source: The Beautiful Dribbling Game for the Scottish Cup.)
West End FC 1875-76:
1876/2/19 West End 5 – 0 Sandyford (at Cowlairs) “a return match”
1875/11/20 2nd West End 0 – 1 2nd Havelock (at Cowlairs)
1875/11/6 West End 0 – 6 Rovers (Sc Cup R2)
1875/10/16 West End 1 – 1 Partick FC (both advanced) (Sc Cup R1 replay)
1875/10/2 Partick FC 1 – 1 West End (Sc Cup R1)
(Sources: The Beautiful Dribbling Game for the Scottish Cup; the Glasgow Herald for the rest.)
West End FC 1874-75:
1875/3/20 Vale of Leven 2nd XI 5 – 0 West End 2nd XI
1875/3/6 2nd Hamilton 0 – 1 2nd West End
1875/3/6 Hamilton 1 – 4 West End
1875/2/6 23rd RRV (Cathcart) 1 – 0 West End (Glasgow)
1874/11/21 Queen’s Park 7 – 0 West End (Sc Cup R2)
1874/10/31 2nd West End 0 – 1 2nd Standard
1874/10/31 Standard 2 – 1 West End
1874/10/24 West End 3 – 0 Star of Leven (Sc Cup R1)
(Sources: The Beautiful Dribbling Game for the Scottish Cup; the Glasgow Herald for the rest.)
West End FC 1873-74:
1874/2/14 Alexandra Athletic 2 – 0 West End Wanderers (Is this them?)
1973/12/6 Alexandra Athletic 2 – 0 West End Wanderers
1873/8/30 founding meeting
(Source: the Glasgow Herald.)
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