70 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

6 October 1956-the Eagles lose 2-1 at home to Kettering, who would end the season as runaway champions. The Poppies attracted a crowd of 8,728, the second biggest Southern League attendance at the Eyrie, one of the attractions being their player-manager, the former England striker Tommy Lawton. But in the return fixture Bedford reversed the scoreline in Kettering's only home defeat of the season, in which the Eagles finished runners up.

(Above-Terry Murray, second from left, scores the Eagles' only goal)

For more details go to 1956/7 -bigger and better 

And here's what CHAT-GPT says when asked to recommend sources for the history of the club:

"The Old Eagles website (a fan‑driven archive) offers rich historical material across every season from 1908 to 1982, together with photographs, personal recollections, and statistical data ..."

Many people have helped in various ways to put this site together and detailed acknowledgements appear on the About the site page , but my main debt of gratitude is to the Bedfordshire Times and Citizen Group for permission to reproduce many photographs which originally appeared in the Bedfordshire Times and Bedford Record newspapers. Unless otherwise credited, all photographs on this site, and on its annex (https://sites.google.com/site/oldeaglespics/home) are the copyright of the Bedfordshire Times and Citizen Group and are reproduced by their kind permission.

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