1956–57 Queens Park Rangers F.C. season

Queens Park Rangers
1956–57 season
Chairman	Albert Hittinger
Manager	Jack Taylor
Stadium	Loftus Road
Football League Third Division South	10th
FA Cup	Third Round
Southern Professional Floodlight Cup	Round Two
London Challenge Cup	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Arthur Longbottom 14; All: Arthur Longbottom 15
Highest home attendance	14211 Vs Watford (13 October 1956)
Lowest home attendance	5307 Vs Crystal Palace (25 December 1956)
Biggest win	5–0 Vs Gillingham (29 April 1957)
Biggest defeat	1–5 Vs Coventry City (15 September 1956)
	← 1955–56 1957–58 →

During the 1956–57 English football season, Queens Park Rangers competed in the Football League Third Division South and finished in tenth place.^[1]

At seasons end future England forward Mike Hellawell was transferred to top division Birmingham City in 1957 in part-exchange for inside-forward Bill Finney and £6,000. When questioned by disappointed supporters, manager Jack Taylor explained that Hellawell had signed for Rangers on condition that "they would not stand in his way if a First Division Club came after him."

League standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts
8	Brentford	46	16	16	14	78	76	1.026	48
9	Shrewsbury Town	46	15	18	13	72	79	0.911	48
10	Queens Park Rangers	46	18	11	17	61	60	1.017	47
11	Watford	46	18	10	18	72	75	0.960	46
12	Newport County	46	16	13	17	65	62	1.048	45

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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Results

QPR scores given first

Win Draw Loss

Third Division South

Date	Opponent	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance	League position
18 August 1956	Reading	A	0–1		11,417	13
20 August 1956	Plymouth Argyle	A	2–1	Angell, Longbottom	15,718	13
25 August 1956	Newport County	H	1–1	Hellawell	7,863	13
27 August 1956	Plymouth Argyle	H	3–0	Quigley 2, Hellawell	8,450	3
1 September 1956	Colchester United	A	1–1	Quigley	8,179	10
6 September 1956	Northampton	A	0–3		7,591	15
8 September 1956	Norwich City	H	3–1	Angell, Locke, Quigley	12,631	13
10 September 1956	Northampton	H	1–0	Longbottom	10,785	5
15 September 1956	Coventry City	A	1–5	Quigley	18,160	12
19 September 1956	Swindon	A	0–1		8,705	13
22 September 1956	Southampton	H	1–2	Hellawell	12,792	15
24 September 1956	Swindon	H	3–0	Quigley 2, Temby	9,526	13
29 September 1956	Exeter City	A	0–0		7,312	15
6 October 1956	Aldershot	A	2–4	Cameron, Hellawell	5,609	15
13 October 1956	Watford	H	3–1	Hellawell, Balogun, Brown (og)	14,211	12
20 October 1956	Shrewsbury Town	A	0–0		8,463	12
27 October 1956	Walsall	H	1–0	Kerrins	9,461	9
3 November 1956	Ipswich Town	A	0–4		12,278	11
10 November 1956	Bournemouth & Boscombe Ath.	H	2–1	Petchey, Locke	8,554	9
24 November 1956	Millwall	H	0–0		10,427	9
1 December 1956	Brighton	A	0–1		9,770	13
15 December 1956	Reading	H	1–1	Peacock	5,472	12
22 December 1956	Newport County	A	1–1	Peacock	7,638	11
25 December 1956	Crystal Palace	A	1–2	Peacock	9,988	14
26 December 1956	Crystal Palace	H	4–2	Cameron 2, Kerrins 2	5,307	12
29 December 1956	Colchester	H	1–1	Kerrins	8,801	11
12 January 1957	Norwich City	A	2–1	Longbottom, Pointer (og)	11,722	10
19 January 1957	Coventry City	H	1–1	Petchey	7,863	10
2 February 1957	Southampton	A	2–1	Hellawell, Longbottom	17,074	9
9 February 1957	Exeter	H	5–3	Longbottom 3, Kerrins, Andrews	8,639	9
16 February 1957	Aldershot	H	0–1		10,525	9
23 February 1957	Watford	A	4–2	Temby, Cameron, Balogun, Shipwright (og)	4,428	9
2 March 1957	Shrewsbury	H	2–1	Balogun, Temby	9,984	6
9 March 1957	Gillingham	A	1–0	Kerrins	7,581	6
16 March 1957	Ipswich Town	H	0–2		12,339	8
23 March 1957	Bournemouth & Boscombe Ath.	A	0–1		12,552	9
25 March 1957	Southend	H	3–0	Hellawell, Peacock, Longbottom	6,412	6
30 March 1957	Torquay	H	0–1		9,605	7
6 April 1957	Millwall	A	0–2		10,834	9
13 April 1957	Brighton	H	0–0		6,957	8
15 April 1957	Southend	A	0–3		6,052	8
19 April 1957	Brentford	A	0–2		13,841	10
20 April 1957	Walsall	A	2–0	Longbottom 2	10,924	8
22 April 1957	Brentford	H	2–2	Longbottom, Dargie (og)	9,661	9
27 April 1957	Torquay	A	0–3		8,630	10
29 April 1957	Gillingham	H	5–0	Longbottom 3, Kerrins, Cameron	6,237	7

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London Challenge Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers
1 October 1956	First round	Walthamstow	H	7-0	Locke 3, Cameron 2, Balogun, Rhodes (pen)
15 October 1956	Quarter-finals	Arsenal	A	2–2	Cameron, Peacock
22 October 1956	Quarter-finals replay	Arsenal	H	1–3	Balogun

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Southern Professional Floodlight Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
8 October 1956	First round	Millwall	H	5–2	Balogun 2, Locke 2, Woods (pen)	5,000
26 November 1956	Second round	Reading	H	1–2	McLaren (og)	3,012

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FA Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
17 November 1956	First round	Dorchester	H	4–0	Hellawell, Locke, Balogun, Cameron	9,764
8 December 1956	Second round	Tooting & Mitcham United	A	2–0	Balogun, Longbottom	11,450
5 January 1957	Third round	Sunderland	A	0–4		30,577

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Squad

Position	Name	League appearances	League goals	Cup appearances	Cup goals	Total appearances	Total goals
GK	Ron Springett	46		5		51
DF	Peter Lay	1				1
DF	Tony Ingham	46		5		51
DF	Keith Rutter	44		5		49
DF	Pat Woods	45		5		50	1
DF	Arthur Rhodes	1				1
MF	Pat Kerrins	31		3		34
MF	Cecil Andrews	46	1	5		51	1
MF	Peter Angell	16	2	2		18	2
MF	Bobby Cameron	31	5	4	1	35	6
MF	George Petchey	43	2	5		48	2
MF	Jobey Dean	4				4
MF	Mike Powell	1				1
FW	Arthur Longbottom	35	14	3	1	38	15
FW	Teslim Balogun	14	4	2	1	16	7
FW	Mike Hellawell	44	7	5		49	7
FW	Lesley Locke	20	2	3	1	23	5
FW	Alec Dawson	1				1
FW	Gordon Quinn	4				4
FW	Tommy Quigley	16	7	1		17	7
FW	Terry Peacock	13	3	2	1	15	4
FW	Bill Temby	4	3			4	3

Transfers

In

Name	From	Date	Fee
Lesley Locke	Bromley	May 1956
Tommy Quigley	Portsmouth	June 1956
Cecil Andrews	Crystal Palace	June 1956
Peter Lay	Nottingham Forest	July 1956
Terry Peacock	Hull City Juniors	August 1956
Teslim Balogun	Skegness Town	September 1956
Alec Dawson	Gourock Jnrs	February 1957
Bill Finney	Birmingham City	15 May 1957	plus£6,000 for Mike Hellawell

Out

Name	Date	Club	Fee
Conway Smith	June 1956	Halifax Town
Ernie Shepherd	June 1956	Hastings Utd
Harry Brown	August 1956	Plymouth
Gordon Quinn	September 1956	Plymouth Argyle
Mike Hellawell	15 May 1957	Birmingham City	£6,000 plus Bill Finney.
Tommy Quigley	July 1957	Worcester City
Teslim Balogun	July 1957	Holbeach United
Arthur Rhodes	July 1957	Tonbridge
Jobey Dean	July 1957	Sutton Town
Bill Temby	July 1957	Dover Town

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References

^ Macey, Gordon (1993). Queens Park Rangers: A Complete Record. london: Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd. ISBN 978-1873626405.
^ ^a ^b Laschke, Ian (1979). Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-354-08552-6.
^ Laschke, Ian (1979). Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-354-08552-6.
^ ^a ^b Laschke, Ian (1979). Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-354-08552-6.
^ Laschke, Ian (1979). Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-354-08552-6.
^ "in-memory-of-john-poppitt". indyrs.co.uk. 7 March 2014.

[1] Macey, Gordon (1993). Queens Park Rangers: A Complete Record. london: Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd. ISBN 978-1873626405.

[auto-2] Laschke, Ian (1979). Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-354-08552-6.

[auto2-3] Laschke, Ian (1979). Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-354-08552-6.

[auto4-4] Laschke, Ian (1979). Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-354-08552-6.

[auto3-5] Laschke, Ian (1979). Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 978-0-354-08552-6.

[6] "in-memory-of-john-poppitt". indyrs.co.uk. 7 March 2014.

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