South Yorkshire Times September 25, 1948
Unexhilarating
Denaby United 1 Kilnhurst Colliery 0
Said a former Denaby United Secretary – manager and player in the closing stages of Denaby F.A. Cup tie with Kilnhurst Colliery at Tickhill Square on Saturday:
“I have never seen Denaby in a worse display.”
I think the very great majority of the 1700 spectators would agree with him. Denaby won a dismally drab game 1 – 0.
There was very, very few flashes of craft indeed, and not many dashing shots.
Oxborough gave Dungworth, in the Kilnhurst goal, plenty to think about, and once Williams put a grand drive just over the bar, but generally, Denaby missed many chances. It was a one-sided game, but Kilnhurst and a steady defence in Dungworth, who in the first half, saved in grand fashion shots from Oxborough (once) and Dickens (twice).
Schofield scored the only goal of the match, a simple, unexhilarating kind of a goal.
With the wind and the sun behind them, Kilnhurst began the second half in lively fashion, but the spasm lasted only 10 minutes and Denaby resumed dictation of the play. Williams, a boon of the Denaby side, had a happy afternoon. His kicking was clean and his clearances sure.
There was little Midland League skill in this game; in fact the match was not Sheffield Association League standard. On Saturday’s showing Denaby are straining their supporters loyalty almost to breaking point