Flower Power Era
Social events at the club now
included the summer Feintley Fives 5-a-side soccer tournament organised by
Dave Feintley Hall, who also starred as the slightly inebriated chef at the
Bonfire Night Pig-roast Barbecues. Folk music was a favourite and the
publicity for a Hippy Fancy Dress Ball was provided by Mick Berrys highly
imaginative posters. Dave Horne, a self confessed artist, changed the sterile
white walls of the First XV changing room to sky blue with large psychedelic
dark blue snakes . The club was running five regular sides and made a profit
of 803 for the year. However, running expenses had risen to 1,200 per annum
and we still owed the RFU 1,400 for their loan.
M.A.Cope was made a Life
Member in July 1972 for his past work for the club.
Two Good Seasons
The North Midlands Knock Out
Cup had been inaugurated and we progressed to the third round via Malvern and
Old Griffinians before being beaten by Worcester.
At the end of the 1972-73
season, the First XV had won the most games in a season ever, although the
twenty-eight wins were from forty games as compared to twenty-five from
twenty-seven by the 1933-34 side. The following year, thirty wins from forty
games included beating all of the Birmingham Old Boys teams played.