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Torpoint Athletic
In the 1962/63 season Torpoint Athletic
joined the South Western League and in
1971, they moved from Defiance Field
and purchased The Mill – the home of
Torpoint Athletic.
HISTORY
The first football club in Torpoint was
founded in 1887. Three of the founders
were TW Stacey, J Rose and J Rouse, who
all went on to win county honours.
Torpoint returned to the winning ways of
the pre-war years by winning the South
Western League Championship in
1964/65 and 1966/67. The club won the
Charity Cup in 1966, 1967 and 1968, and
lost in the final of the South Western
League Cup in 1965/66 and the Cornwall
Senior Cup in 1967/68.
Torpoint was represented at the
inaugural meeting of the Cornwall
County Football Association held in the
Royal Hotel, Truro in 1889. The eight
clubs that formed the Association were
Dunheved College (Launceston),
Liskeard, Millbrook, Penzance,
Porthcurnow, Probus School, Torpoint
and Truro.
The club has competed in the FA
Amateur Cup, reaching the second round
on several occasions, playing teams such
as Corinthian Casuals, Cray Wanderers,
Harwich and Parkstone, Leyton (twice)
and Walton and Hersham (three times).
Torpoint had two teams in the town by
1905 – Torpoint Defiance and Torpoint
Triumph – and they merged to form
Torpoint Association Football Club for the
1905/1906 season. After the First World
War, the name Athletic was added to the
team name.
During the seventies many local lads
represented the club. Phil Cardew, Steve
Cardew, Neil Edwards, Terry Metters,
Ritchie Roberts, Alan Shannon and Mike
Vigus to name but a few. One such player,
Roy Carter went on to play league
football for Hereford, Swindon, Exeter,
and Newport. Robbie Russell went on to
make the professional ranks with )