Douai Crest


Douai Hockey Captains
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1924 *  L J Carey P 2 W 0 D 0 L 2
1925 L J Carey P 2 W 1 D 0 L 1
1926 * P A Plunkett  P 2 W 0 D 0 L 2
1927 * L J Reilly P 4 W 0 D 0 L 4
1928 * G W Tickle P 6 W 0 D 0 L 6
1929 ------ Hockey was spoilt by the weather
1930 L Hughes P 6 W 0 D 1 L 5
1931 * D J Brabin P 5 W 4 D 1 L 0 
1932 * D J Brabin P 8 W 1 D 0 L 7 
1933 J S Polglase  P 2 W 0 D 0 L 2
1934 * D Smith P 3 W 2 D 0 L 1
1935 R B Pooley Hockey was spoilt by the weather
1936 -------- No reference to Hockey
1937 -------- No reference to Hockey
1938 -------- No reference to Hockey
1939 T J Walsh  P 3 W 0 D 0 L 3
1940 J Coombes Note in Paragraphs re lack of Hockey
1941 J Coombes P 6 W 3 D 1 L 2 
1942 P Hall P 3 W 1 D 0 L 2
1943 ----------- Wartime
1944 ----------- Wartime
1945 * B Livesey P 4 W 3 D 1 L 0
1946 * J A Waller P 7 W 2 D 2 L 3
1947 ---------- Very bad weather
1948 * P J Spence P 4 W 0 D 0 L 4
1949 * C E Swinhoe P 6 W 1 D 0 L 5 
1950 * K M O’Connor P 8 W 4 D 1 L 3
1951 E J Horgan P 3 W 1 D 0 L 2
1952 *  B A Orsi P 2 W 1 D 0 L 1
1953 * C J Morton P 8 W 0 D 2 L 6
1954 G H Langin P 5 W 3 D 0 L 2 
1955 D W B Hopkin P 5 W 1 D 0 L 5
1956 M Treays P 6 W 2 D 1 L 3
1957 M Horgan P 3 W 0 D 0 L 3
1958 J Anderson P 7 W 3 D 2 L 2
1959 D Haile P 3 W 0 D 0 L 3 
1960*
 D Haile P 7 W 1 D 1 L 5
1961*
 J Philipson P 8 W 2 D 1 L 5
1962 Soccer returned

Hockey was always a risky business – it meant that it came after Rugby in the pecking order, and it took its place in the latter part of the Easter term.

Weather constraints tended to be against us, with snow, ice and rain, and only a few sides listed were able to put out a decent team, during the restricted term.

From all the evidence, the teams we came up against were as good as you could get – for example, St George’s Weybridge, and a variety of club teams, - so we were always up against good opposition, and results really didn’t go our way.

Sevens also played its own part in strangulating the Hockey scene, but hockey was a good game, considerably different to the way they play these days, (in 2018), but inevitably we woke up one day, reconciled to going back to Soccer, and another new order had begun.  

CJM – 30.7.18