Chronological History of Morecambe Football Club
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The 1940's
With the onset of the war and club playing in the North Lancashire League the following season of 1940-41 they had hoped to return to the Lancashire Combination but it proved not to be so. So again the club played in the North Lancashire League but with war on it proved to be difficult to played football. In only one division played due to lack of teams. For the first time the club defaulted a game and the final five game of the season were never played. The gate were down and so was the income. The club hope to play in league again the following season, 1941-42 to avoid losing the ground. It did not and ceases playing until end of the war in Europe in 1945. However football was still played on Christie Park. in 1941-42 when the R.A.F. played as Morecambe Services in the Lancashire Combination, the team ended forth. The following season 1942-43 the entered again with fewer teams in. Indeed this was the last football at Christie Park for two seasons.
With the Second World War it was seem as an opportunity to start again, forgetting the lean years of the I930's and to luck forward to new glory in the future.
The
Post War Board Of Morecambe FC
1945-46
The club
returned to the Lancashire Combination finishing a low ninth. However
with low number of teams the Combination Cup was played on a north
and south mini-leagues and the club went out of its way to win.
Having no reserve team local players, played a game losing
14-1, a club record defeat. However the plan worked the club won
their mini- league and met Bacup Borough at Christie Park in the
final, winning the Combination Cup in front of 5,000+. Silverware was
back at Christie Park.
September
1946 Supporters go by sea.
The Mayor
re-opens a renovated Christie Park
1946 ~ 1947 saw the first full programme of league games were play since the outbreak of the war. The club finish fourth, scoring 133 goals, and recording the club's record away victory, 12-0 at Great Harwood, with Jimmy Ashworth setting the individual scoring record of 8 in the same match. 1947 ~1948 the club appointed a manager for the first time, ex Preston North Ender Jimmy Milne (later to manage Preston to the 1964 FA Cup final). The again came forth in the league but, sadly, lost in the semi-final of the Combination Cup to Lancaster in front of 6,000 spectators. The following season, 1948 ~ 1949 the improved in the league coming third and reached the semi-final of the Lancashire Junior Cup losing to Darwen 4-2. With the 40's coming to a close, the following season of 1949 ~1950 was somewhat of a poor season with the club only winning one cup game and coming a lowly ninth in the league.