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Picture/Kit Help 20:22 - Nov 30 with 3016 viewsTVOS1907

TalkingSutty, 442Dale and I are hoping one of our older fans can help us with this query.

I had the picture below in TVOS yesterday. It's from a game Dale played at Boundary Park in February 1963. Pictured is Ron Cairns scoring Dale's goal in a 5-1 defeat.

Dale are wearing their away kit and we are wondering if anyone knows what colour the kit was.

Oldham are in white shirts with a blue panel down the front. Dale's home kit that season was white shirts and black shorts, hence the change kit.

Thanks in advance for any help.


[Post edited 30 Nov 2014 20:23]

When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf?

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Picture/Kit Help on 08:28 - Dec 1 with 731 viewsD_Dale

Picture/Kit Help on 21:56 - Nov 30 by BigKindo

Struggling on this. However I do recall Oldham playing that winter when many didn't. They left the snow on the pitch and played in basketball shoes, a bit like the present day Converse shoes but a boot style.


Boxing Day 1962, Oldham's biggest win, 11-0 vs Southport, whose players claimed they couldn't stay on their feet like the Latics players did. Bert Lister, who I think scored a few that day, had a couple of seasons with Dale, 1964-66, without being prolific.
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Picture/Kit Help on 09:50 - Dec 1 with 708 viewsBigKindo

Picture/Kit Help on 22:42 - Nov 30 by judd

I don't know why that colour combination came up in my head, but somewhere in the deepest recesses I seem to remember seeing a purple and white shirt with a huge Dale crest on it.


I seem to recall in the 1950's we had a colour clash for an upcoming Lancashire Cup Match and that we borrowed the (silk?) purple strip that Citeh has used in the FA Cup Final
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Picture/Kit Help on 10:36 - Dec 1 with 693 viewsarchdale

I remember the game. The shirts were red with narrow white stripes, similar to an away shirt worn by Man City later in the decade.
The shirts were also short sleeved and as you can see from the picture the pitch was snowbound and it was perishingly cold. Wisely, our men wore their usual white shirts under the red ones and the sleeves from these are what you can see.
It was the winter of 'The Big Freeze', lasting from Boxing Day until early March and I would guess that no more than 6 or 8 games across the country took place that day.
Biffos won 5-1, I recall, after a goalless first half.
I reckon the Dale player in the picture is Ronnie Cairns.
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Picture/Kit Help on 10:46 - Dec 1 with 688 viewsTVOS1907

Picture/Kit Help on 10:36 - Dec 1 by archdale

I remember the game. The shirts were red with narrow white stripes, similar to an away shirt worn by Man City later in the decade.
The shirts were also short sleeved and as you can see from the picture the pitch was snowbound and it was perishingly cold. Wisely, our men wore their usual white shirts under the red ones and the sleeves from these are what you can see.
It was the winter of 'The Big Freeze', lasting from Boxing Day until early March and I would guess that no more than 6 or 8 games across the country took place that day.
Biffos won 5-1, I recall, after a goalless first half.
I reckon the Dale player in the picture is Ronnie Cairns.


Thanks for the info and yes, it is Ronnie Cairns.

When I was your age, I used to enjoy the odd game of tennis. Or was it golf?

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