FA Cup 2nd Round – Margate v Crystal Palace, December 14th, 1935

MARGATE 3 (Jimmy Evans 3)
CRYSTAL PALACE 1 (Jack Blackman)

Saturday 14th December 1935
FA Cup 2nd Round – Hartsdown Park
Attendance: 6,081

Margate’s great FA Cup run continued with a visit from Division Three (South) club Crystal Palace who included former Margate full-back Sam Booth in their line-up. A new wooden stand built at the Hartsdown Road end of the ground was used for the first time after Arthur Weston of Weston Dairies provided the necessary funds and it became known as The Arthur Weston Stand. After the Londoners had taken an early lead, a hat-trick from Welsh midfielder Jimmy Evans saw Margate through to the Third Round for the first time in the club’s history.

MARGATE: Charlie Preedy; Alec Millar, Charlie Walker; Jimmy Evans, Ernie Tuckett, Bobby McFarlane; Dave Robbie, Andy Farr, Jock Davie, Jack Lambert and Joe Clare

CRYSTAL PALACE: Ronnie Dunn; Sam Booth, Oswald Parry; Billy Turner, Jimmy Wilde, David Levene; Jim Carson, Bob Birtley, Jack Blackman, Albert Dawes and Bob Bigg

Press cutting from the match

Match Report

Match Reports

Stills from the newsreel footage of the match

Margate (on the left) prepare to kick off

Margate supporters

A Margate player gets a shot away

Dave Robbie runs in on goal

An image of the main stand at Hartsdown Park

A Palace player clears

The scene after Jimmy Evans completed his hat-trick