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Source:
Shrewsbury Advertiser, Wednesday 14th May 1969
Kindly supplied by Shrewsbury team member, Dave Moore
Text in report: "Final Training Stint for
Sunday's 'It's A Knock Out!': Shrewsbury are competing against a team
from Chester in the first round of the 1969 competition. For the past few
weeks the men of the home team have been training under the guidance of
Shrewsbury Rugby Club captain, Stuart Lister.
'It's A Knockout', the BBC's own brand of midsummer
madness, now an international fun and games spectacle, is being staged in
Shrewsbury on Sunday. Started in the Fifties it has grown into a madcap
Olympian event watched by some 15 million viewers in this country and, via
Eurovision, getting on for 150 million viewers in Europe. Teams of dolly
girls and tough hairy young men get up to the zaniest antics impossible to
overcome almost impossible obstacles. All in the name of entertainment.
Starting at 5 p.m. on Sunday in Shrewsbury's Quarry they will be providing
entertainment which is expected to draw 15,000 people to cheer them on.
Tove Fjeld and Penny Kinsella have been training the girls,
while the fifteen strong 'cheer girl' section -- being drilled by Hazel
Lee, wife of the borough's publicity officer, Mr. Michael Rayward. The
cheer girls will be shouting 'Harka, Harka, Harka" a battle cry said to
have been used during the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403. It means 'to win'!
The Shrewsbury team and the cheer girls are being dressed
by Maddox's Ltd., Silhouette Ltd., and Overy's Ltd., of Shrewsbury.
Four Shrewsbury apprentice footballers are to take part in
the football marathon game.
The games will be televised from the Quarry. They are due
to start at 5 p.m."
Captions: "The girls' team for next Sunday's
'It's A Knock-out' will be chosen from this group." "Under the
direction of the Army PTI at the Sir John Moore Barracks, the men who are
to represent Shrewsbury against Chester on Sunday prepare to tackle the
Army Assault Course." "Above and below, girls from the 'It's A
Knock-out' team travel down a part of the course at the Army gym as part
of their fitness training session for next Sunday's T.V. games against
Chester."
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