Medals For Denaby Players

1 September 1908

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 01 September 1908

Medals For Denaby Players.

Last night, at the Reresby Arms Hotel, Denaby, the Denaby United players, as last season’s runnersup of the Midland League, were presented with medals commemorating their good performance.

All the members of the old team were present with the exception of Ramsden (signed for Brentford), Marshall (Swindon), Dyal (Rotherham), and Blackburn and Hofton (Glossop), their medals being taken by substitutes.

Mr, S. J. Bridges, who presided, commented upon the good record of the club last season, and they were hoping that in the coming season they would finish at the top.

Mr. W. H. Chambers, managing director of the Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries, presented the medals, and said he had followed the club’s progress through the papers, and had always been very pleased with their success, which he was sure was very gratifying indeed all Denaby people was told that the penalty of their success had been the loss of five of their last season’s best players, and he concluded with tribute football as medium of good physical and moral training.

J. Hancock (captain), acknowledging, said he was only sorry that they had just failed to win the Midland League Championship, but when they considered the class of many of the competing clubs, some of them with First Division they had reason to think that they had done exceedingly well.