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Due to work commitments key committee and management were unnavailable and as a result no one was prepared to take on the job of club secretary. As a last resort I volunteered to stop the club from folding.
It was really the last thing I'd wanted to do because my first child, Neil, had just been born in March of 1970, I changed my job in that summer and moved house in the Autumn. Life was fairly hectic to say the least. This is probably why I did't have time to keep any record of the seasons results. Consequently it was a poor start all round for our first season in the Houghton & District League.
The one thing I did learn from this season was the work that a club secretary had to do.
I know I didn't have a particularly good season as a player but at least it kept the club going. Although at 25, which should have been a peak season, it seemed like a wasted one.
Below is a copy from the first page of my note book. Other pages related to the secretary's responsibilities plus players name and addresses.
This was the last season the team would be known as Ryhope YC.
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