Category: Football

Film for Friday – Rye Athletic

Third film in our series ‘Rye in the 60’s and 70’s features Rye Athletic Football Club.

This film will be posted on the Rye’s Own website tomorrow

The local team founded by Terry Lane and managed by Player / Manager Terry Spencer, went on to achieve great things. Continue reading Film for Friday – Rye Athletic

Local Movies are Coming to the Rye’s Own Website

Local Movies, many shot in Rye and District in the 1960’s will be coming to this website shortly.

Literally hundreds of local people are featured in the films, which cover many aspects of Rye life from Bonfire Nights to Rye Sports. There are parades past the Town Hall, local soccer teams in action, cycling time trials on the roads of kent, dramatic snow shots from the hard winter of 1963 when the sea froze and many more outstanding events. Continue reading Local Movies are Coming to the Rye’s Own Website

Local Soccer in the 60s

England won the World Cup in 1966 and this event sparked a ‘soccer boom’ in the country. So many youngsters took up the game, overfilling places in local teams many times over. Established teams created 2nd. and 3rd, elevens and new teams were born in towns and villages around the country. Continue reading Local Soccer in the 60s

Remembering Fred Masters – Goalkeeper Magnificent

FRED MASTERS 1922 – 2013

By Jim Hollands

It is with great personal sadness that I report the passing, on Monday 25 November, 2013 of Rye United’s post war goalkeeper, Fred Masters, a man who made more appearances (388) for the team than any other player before or since. Continue reading Remembering Fred Masters – Goalkeeper Magnificent

United’s Wembley Dream

United’s Wembley Dream Lives On

By Jim Hollands

My dad laughed as we came away from the Pilot Field in 1948 after
watching a Rye United team including Bill ‘Blower’ Pierce and ‘Pickles’
Igglesden carry off the Hastings Charity Cup and I asked him if Rye
would ever play in a Wembley final? Continue reading United’s Wembley Dream

Rye Secondary School Soccer Team 1954

Rye Secondary Modern. 4     Hastings Modern 1

To those of us that remember the great victory, beating the top Hastings soccer school in that exiting final, it seems only yesterday. In fact it was fifty-six years ago when the youth of Rye made off with the magnificent Hastings Shield. Continue reading Rye Secondary School Soccer Team 1954