Stags got off to a better start with victory in the opening game of the season over Exeter City. Also the Notts FA County Cup restarted for the first time since the war, as Stags lost 1-0 to Nottingham Forest.Īt the start of the 1961/2 season, Stags reverted from a strip of white shirts and black shorts that had been used for 7 years, to the more accepted colours of amber shirts and blue shorts. It was the first season of the Football League Cup, and Stags lost in the first round to Leicester City. Thus Stags marginally avoided having to apply for re-election, In the FA Cup, Stags lost in the second round to Accrington Stanley after having beaten Blyth Spartans in the first. These results pulled the Stags out of the bottom two and for the rest of the season with the odd game won and the odd game drawn, Stags managed to finish fifth from the bottom and hence outside the bottom four, though only on goal average from Exeter City. But a crucial run of three consecutive victories followed with Doug Wragg and Ivan Hollett, who ended the season as the two leading goalscorers, scoring the decisive goals. In the next eight games, seven were lost and one drawn to push the Stags into the bottom two. Gauld was to hit the headlines later for his part in a soccer betting scandal, where he had developed a betting syndicate whilst recovering from his broken leg. New signing Jimmy Gauld scored in both games but broke his leg in the latter game. By mid-December Stags were hovering in the bottom four of the table though wins over Aldershot and Hartlepools either side of Christmas improved the situation. But victory in the 4th game away to Rochdale was significant as 17 year old Ken Wagstaff, who had signed from Langwith Woodland Imps, made his debut and scored both goals in a 2-1 win. So the Stags started 1960/1 in Division IV, but once again got off to a poor start, failing to win the opening three games.
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