The Fixture Card of 1930 -1931 as the new season approaches

With the new season approaching we re-visit the 1930-1931 season. Please see the fixture card below to see where the Amber Army were visiting during the season.

They started away at the Swifts in September - Do you know who the Swifts were and where they played?
Their last scheduled match was against Coton at home in April.

The reserves started the season with the trip to Barnwell United and finishing against Willingham

Do you know, recognise or are you related to any of the names mentioned on the card? If so, who was it? Do you have any stories about them?

Sir Douglas Newton was born on 14 July 1879

1909 - He was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1909.

He was then elected as Member of Parliament for Cambridge at a by-election in 1922 following the resignation of t Sir Eric Geddes.

Newton was re-elected until he was elevated in 1934 to the peerage as Baron Eltisley, of Croxton 

He died in September 1942, aged 63.