I've uploaded four team photos from the 1950's to:

www.putfile.com/dyker

I know who some players are, but can anyone name them all?

Fantastic photos Jim !

Brilliant pics Jim. I'm pretty sure you've managed to get Harold Davis in an East fIfe shirt in the August 1955 photo. My guess is that this was at the traditional Black and Golds v Whites trial match at the start of the season and the picture of the team in white were their opponents.
Unusually the "reserves" played in the Black and Gold that afternoon.
Teams were:

Black & Golds:
McCluskey, Newman, Adie, Newman, Davis, Christie, Wilson,Kirkwood, Gardiner, Newman, Keddie

Whites:
Curran, Emery, S.Stewart, Bonthrone, Finlay, McLennan, Wright, J. Stewart, Plumb, Leishman, Matthew

So therefore:

Black & Golds:
Back (L to R): ?, ?, Davis, McCluskey, ?, ?
Front: ?, ?, Gardiner, ?, ?

Whites:
Back: Emery, Bonthrone, Curran, McLennan, Finlay, S. Stewart
Front: Wright, J. Stewart, Plumb, Leishman, Matthew

And we can't assume that both teams lined up for the photo in the same formation as Centre-half Davis is on a different side of the goalie than his counterpart Willie Finlay...

The forward line should, however, be:
Front: Wilson, Kirkwood, Gardiner, Newman and Keddie

Jim

One of the things I'm working on at the mo for the site is putting up as many squad photos as poss.

Just to see the changes year by year.

Do you have lots of these already on the pc, as scanning them in is a pain in the arse!

Brilliant, Ste .... er ... I mean Angus!
I should be able to take individual player photos out of these pictures now for use in the 'Past Encounters' articles in the programme (although I did know about six or seven of them already, honest!).

Gof - when I get a minute I'll send you all the team photos I have.

No rush Jim, but that would be great.

Even if you could stick them on a disc (I'll give you a blank one in return!) then that would be fantastic.

If I ever get it all finished, it's going to be a really cool section

Gof, you can steal these team photos if you want. I'm home at Christmas and can look out the large scans for you.

http://eastfife.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=1049&p=2&stid=8051204

Jim & Angus

I can't identify the three players from the trial match who went under 'Newman' but the rest are as follows:

Back row: Newman, Newman, Davis, McCluskey, Christie, Adie.
Front row: Wilson, Kirkwood, Gardiner, Newman, Keddie.

I have a feeling that the 'Newman' in the front row might have been Rose, but I can't remember why that rings a bell.

Superb, Donald. Thanks for the info!