County
Antrim Shield Final - 12th May 1956, kick-off 7pm
ARDS 4-1 LINFIELD
On Saturday 12th May
1956 at The Oval, Ards took the lead in the 4th minute with
a penalty from Tommy walker after Tommy 'Bun' Hamill had
fouled Tony Gildea in the box. Linfield got and equaliser in
the 44th minute through Tommy Dickson.
So 1-1 at half-time and
for the first twenty minutes of the second half, Linfield
piled on the pressure. And then an Ards attack in the 67th
minute saw an Eastham jnr shot charged down as was the
follow-up by Gildea, who eventually got the rebound into the
net to put Ards 2-1 in front.
Ards were now buzzing
and in the 71st minute went further ahead when the blond
head of young Eastham out-jumped Hamill to head on a Tommy
walker cross. As Gildea challenged keeper Russell in the air
the ball fell nicely for the in-rushing Munroe to score
number three.
It was all over for
Linfield in the 81st minute when Tony Gildea out-sprinted
Tommy Hamill from a Walker pass to round the goalkeeper and
score the fouth.
Ards: B Smyth, J Moore,
W Fulton, T Forde, R Newberry, J Wilson, L Munroe, A
McQuilken, T Gildea, G Eastham (jnr), T Walker
Linfield: A Russell, D
Keith, J Graham, G Nixon, T Hamill, B Truesdale, J Hill, J
Parke, B Kennedy, T Dickson, F Maguire
Attendance around 9000;
Receipts £780 |
