CITY 0 CRYSTAL PALACE 2
League Division 2
16th April 1965
attendance 15,885
scorers Smith(30 & 54)
Ref Maurice Fussey
City Dowd, Baouzzi, Gomershall, Doyle, Kennedy, Oakes, Connor, Hayes, Ogden, Crossan, Young.
Palace Jackson, Whitehouse, Howe. Payne, Stephenson, Burridge, Woods, Burnside, Holton, Smith, Kellard.
…The Palace defence was rarely troubled by a slow moving attack whose first shot did not come for an hour despite having territorial advantage.
City held the upper hand for the first half hour then a Palace attack led to their first goal when Cliff Holton made the opening for Bobby Kellard to cross and Keith Smith hammered the ball home past Dowd. Having also had a good looking header disallowed for offside, nine minutes into the second half Keith Smith was not to be denied again as he snapped up a cross-field ball from Peter Burridge and was forced almost to the bye-line before whipping in a shot that flew past Dowd and entered the net via the crossbar and a post.
Excerpt from an article by Ian King published in the Crystal Palace programme 17th October 1992