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SOUTHERN BRANCH
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HIBERNIAN FOOTBALL CLUB SUPPORTERS ASSOCIATION
BOWLING DAY
EDINBURGH BOWLING CLUB
SUNDAY 20TH JULY 2008
FROM 12 NOON
Branch meetings are held in the clubrooms on the 2nd Monday of each month at 8.00pm
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REMEMBER THE FAMOUS FIVE
In Hibernian's rich history, no group of players has ever achieved greater fame than the Famous Five. Gordon Smith, Bobby Johnstone, Lawrie Reilly, Eddie Turnbull and Willie Ormond made up the Famous Five. In the late 1940s and early 1950s they forged a front line that was the scourge of defences throughout Scotland.
First to arrive was Gordon Smith, signed, like the others, by manager Willie McCartney. Smith was recruited in April 1941 and was widely believed to have been on the brink of joining Hearts at the time. Ormond signed from Stenhousmuir, Turnbull had come from the Junior grades, and Reilly was a product of local juvenile football. The last piece of the jigsaw was the promotion of Bobby Johnstone from reserve football to first team duties.
The Famous Five first played together on April 21st 1949 in a friendly at Sanquar against Nithsdale Wanderers, scoring eight goals between them. A few days later they again played together, this time in Belfast in another friendly. In October, after a shock League Cup defeat, the five came together once again against Queen of the South, and more or less remained in place thereafter.
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