Back the Blue Brazil - Part Two

The Blue Brazil could be just 90 minutes away from winning only our second league title in the last 73 years by lifting the Irn-Bru 2011/12 Second Division championship -  if it was to happen on Saturday make sure you can look back in years to come and say "I was there"!

Three points from our last three games would be enough to guarantee the title and the first opportunity comes this Saturday when Dick Campbell's Forfar side visits Central Park - a game that no Blue Brasilian will want to miss! 

This Cowden team is a credit to the loyal fans and the people of Cowdenbeath. Please come out in number and back your team. Encourage family, friends and strangers to come along on Saturday. 

It's your club!

We looked back at the 1914/15 championship team on Monday and now we focus on the famous team from 1938/39.

Mention season 1938/39 to any Cowden supporter over the age of seventy five and he will immediately start reciting: Hill; Jordan, Rougvie; Gillies, Rhodie, Hillan; Watters, Milne, Walls, Reid and Boag. This was the team that won the Second Division championship with a record number of points and scored 120 goals in the process. Cowden went nine games unbeaten from the start of the season and had then gone a club record of twenty league games unbeaten. By then Cowden were two points ahead of Alloa and East Fife at the top of the table. Their record fell at Alloa after a 2-1 defeat. The return game soon after v Alloa saw a game played with cup-tie fervour. Cowden enjoyed a thrilling a 4 - 2 victory. The close of 1938 saw Cowden proudly perched on the top of the table. They were undefeated at Central Park for over a year and had an overall record for 1938 of: P 40 W 27 D10 L3 F123 A54.

The new year was brought in with a 4-1 drubbing of the Pars at East End Park. The first round of the Scottish Cup then provided a temporary respite from league business and 11,000 witnessed a thrilling 3 - 3 draw versus First Division Partick Thistle at Central Park. Thistle were favourites in the Wednesday replay but two goals by Alex Milne helped Cowden to a 2 - 1 win. For the next round 3,000 Cowden supporters travelled to Cathkin Park to cheer on ‘the Miners’ in the second round of the cup. 18,696 saw Cowden dominate the game until goalkeeper Hill went off injured with concussion in the 40th minute. Thereafter Third Lanark notched three goals to win 3 - 0.

Cowden dropped only one point in their remaining ten league games. Among the highlights on the run-in to the title was Cowden’s 7 -1 drubbing of Stenhousemuir when Rab Walls scored six goals. On 18th March 1939, Cowden clinched promotion by defeating St. Bernards 3 - 1 at Central Park. Walls scored 26 goals in these last 10 games. He scored 54 league goals that year to end up as Scotland’s leading scorer. Overall, Cowdenbeath finished twelve points clear of runners-up Alloa with the marvellous record of P 34 W 28 D 4 L 2 F 120 A 45 Pts 60.