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A Potted Club History - The
Fifties
 Results and tables for
the following seasons can be found in our all-time
results section.
The Decades Winners
World Cup Winners: 1950 Uruguary, 1954 West
Germany, 1958 Brazil
League Champions: 1959 Wolverhampton Wanderers,
1958 Wolverhampton Wanderers, 1957 Manchester United, 1956 Manchester United,
1955 Chelsea, 1954 Wolverhampton Wanderers, 1953 Arsenall, 1952 Manchester
United, 1951 Tottenham Hotspurs, 1950 Portsmouth
FA Cup Winners: 1959 Nottingham Forest, 1958
Bolton Wanderers, 1957 Aston Villa, 1956 Manchester City, 1955 Newcastle
United, 1954 West Bromwich Albion, 1953 Blackpool, 1952 Newcastle United,
1951 Newcastle United, 1950 Arsenal
European Cup
Winners: 1959
Real Madrid, 1958 Real Madrid, 1957 Real Madrid, 1956 Real Madrid
UEFA Cup Winners: 1958 Barcelona
Pictured above: Alf Ramsey with the 56-57 Squad
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Season
1950-51
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 Victory at Carrow Road (3-1),
in the last but one game of the season, breaks Norwich's unbeaten home
record and effectively ends Norwich's chance of promotion. Leading scorer
Sam McCrory (pictured) with 21 league goals. Jimmy Forsyth is appointed
coach and stays with the club until his retirement in the early seventies.
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Season
1951-52
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 Leading scorer Tom Garneys
with 20 league and cup goals. Mick Burns becomes the oldest player to
represent Ipswich in a first team fixture (versus Gateshead at 43 years and
219 days). Jack Parry (pictured) becomes first choice goalkeeper, ending on
the losing side in his first 5 games including a 5-1 home defeat by
Swindon.
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Season
1952-53
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 Despite taking a 2-1 lead at
Goodison Park, Town go down 3-2 against Everton in the FA Cup 3rd round. A
crowd of 42,000 is the highest the team has ever played in front of.
Leading scorer, for the second successive season, Tom Garneys with 24
league and cup goals.
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Season
1953-54
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 Patient rebuilding of the side
by manager Duncan (pictured) finally pays off as Town finish the season as
Division 3 (South) Champions. Seven points ahead of their nearest rivals at
the turn of the year Town were beaten only twice in their first 32 league
and cup games. A record of eight successive league wins was also set.
Leading scorer, for the third successive season, Tom Garneys with 24 league
and cup goals.
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Season
1954-55
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Despite
equalling their best ever league win (6-1 against Middlesboro) during a
promising start to the season, a disastrous record of ten straight league
defeats sees Town plummet to 21st place. Relegation to Division 3 (South)
follows. Leading scorer, for the fourth successive season, Tom Garneys with
21 league and cup goals.
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Season
1955-56
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Sir
Alf Ramsey replaces A. Scott Duncan as manager (Duncan had been manager
since November 1937). Town finish a creditable 3rd, scoring 4 goals or more
on 9 occasions, with a total for the season of 106. Leading scorer Tommy
Parker with 31 league and cup goals.
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Season
1956-57
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 Division 3 (South) Champions.
Ipswich score twice, in the first 50 seconds, in the home game against
Brentford. Tommy Parker (pictured) plays his final game for Town in the league game with
Millwall at Portman Road (he made 475 appearances in total). Ted Phillips
is leading marksman with 46 league and cup goals (a record for a Town
player in one season) - he had been playing non-league football the
previous year. The league game at Coventry is the first full game played by
the Town under floodlights. Ipswich's 3-1 defeat of Norwich on Easter
Monday moves them into first place, where they remained, and consigns
Norwich to bottom place and the ignominy of applying for re-election.
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Season
1957-58
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Town
are defeated by "Busby's Babes" 2-0 at Old Trafford in the fourth
round of the FA Cup. It was to be Manchester United's last home game before
the Munich air crash. Leading scorer Tom Garneys with 19 league goals.
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Season
1958-59
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 Dermon Curtis becomes only the
2nd Ipswich player to represent his country in the Eire versus Poland
international. Leading scorer Ray Crawford (pictured), with 26 league and
cup goals, signed from Portsmouth for £5,000.
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Season
1959-60
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 First ever floodlit game at
Portman Road sees Town defeat Arsenal 4-0 in a friendly. Leading scorer Ted
Phillips (pictured) with 25 league and cup goals.
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