Successful Clubs of Last Season No. 4 Morecambe F.C. by G. W. Newsham (Secretary)
Taken from F.A News October 1968
Morecambe Football Club 1968
Back row L to R; Brian Capper, George Newsham (Secretary), Colin Udall, Steve Porter, Stuart Holding, Bob Baldwin, Lance Millard, Robert Altham (Chairman), Dennis Crompton, Keith Borrowdale, Derek Varcoe, Ken Waterhouse (Manager), Brian Park (Trainer).
Front row L to R; Charlie Lea, Gerry Irving, Arnold Timmins, Johnny Martin, Dave Halstead.
WE KNEW AS Season 1967/68 opened
that this was to be our last season in the Lancashire Football
Combination, of which we had been members since 1920, as the Club had
been selected to play in the new Northern Premier League in 1968/69.
In the previous season, 1966/67,
Morecambe had won the League Championship and the League Cup and all
connected with the club were hoping for a repeat performance last
season so that we could end our connection with the League in a blaze
of glory. We began the season well by winning eight of our first nine
games, but then our hopes dimmed at St. Helens, when after 15
minutes' play, Ken Waterhouse, our Player-Manager, was carried off
the field with a badly fractured leg. It is, therefore, gratifying to
report that the team showed a determination and loyalty and were not
to be put off by this setback and went on to win the match and
challenged for Championship and Cup Honours throughout the remainder
of the season. So much so that last season can be considered to be
the most successful in the history of the Club, for not only were we
triumphant in both the League and Cup, we also were winners of the
Lancashire F.A. Senior Cup Competition.