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Riessersee versus Füssen

Füssen, 1949. Source.

Riessersee host Füssen. As SC Riessersee have been around since 1920 and EV Füssen since 1922 they have a long history. (See below.)

Füssen is in the German Alps, about 20 km west of Garmisch-Partenkircken. The town's coat of arms and the club's crest both use a Manx-style tristelion of three legs, a medieval rebus on the town's name which in German means feet.

Füssen were German champion sixteen times from 1949 to 1973, and they won the Spengler Cup in 1952 and 1964.

Today's game is the final regular season game for both teams. The number of Covid postponements, which are still happening, has made it impractical to finish the full schedule, and the final standings will be based on points per game. The relegation round has been cancelled, but promotion to DEL2 is still possible.

Riessersee will move on to the pre-playoffs against either Lindau or Füssen.

[Riessersee 2 - 1 Füssen.]

[March 9: Riessersee finish seventh and Füssen tenth. They'll meet in a best-of-three pre-playoff Altmeisterduell. If Riessersee win they will play Memmingen in the next round.] [No, the Oberliga Nord and Süd playoffs interlock. If Riessersee win they will play Hannover Scorpions.]

[March 11: Riessersee 4 - 1 Füssen]

[March 13: Füssen 0 - 4 Riessersee]

Riessersee and Füssen in the same league:

2020-21    Riessersee (5th) Füssen (11th)     Oberliga Süd

2019-20    Füssen (5th) Riessersee (6th)      Oberliga Süd

2010/11    Riessersee (2nd) Füssen (3rd)      Oberliga Süd

2006-07    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (9th)       Oberliga

2005-06    Riessersee (7th) Füssen (12th)     Oberliga

2004-05    Riessersee (7th) Füssen (9th)       Oberliga Süd-West

1994-95    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (12th)     1.Liga Süd

1993-94    Füssen (8th) Riessersee (12th)    Oberliga Süd

1991-92    Riessersee (4th) Füssen (9th)       2.Bundesliga Süd

1990-91    Riessersee (5th) Füssen (7th)       2.Bundesliga Süd

1989-90    Füssen (7th) Riessersee (8th)      2.Bundesliga Süd

1988-89    Füssen (6th) Riessersee (8th)      2.Bundesliga Süd

1987-88    Füssen (3rd) Riessersee (7th)      2.Bundesliga Süd

1982-83    Riessersee (7th) Füssen (10th)     Bundesliga

1981-82    Riessersee (4th) Füssen (10th)     Bundesliga

1980-81    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (8th)       Bundesliga

1979-80    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (7th)       Bundesliga

1978-79    Riessersee (3rd) Füssen (9th)       Bundesliga

1977-78    Riessersee (2nd) Füssen (8th)      Bundesliga

1976-77    Riessersee (7th) Füssen (8th)       Bundesliga

1975-76    Füssen (5th) Riessersee (9th)      Bundesliga

1974-75    Füssen (5th) Riessersee (8th)      Bundesliga

1973-74    Füssen (5th) Riessersee (6th)      Bundesliga

1972-73    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (5th)      Bundesliga

1971-72    Füssen (2nd) Riessersee (3rd)     Bundesliga

1970-71    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (5th)      Bundesliga

1969-70    Füssen (2nd) Riessersee (4th)     Bundesliga

1968-69    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (5th)      Bundesliga Süd

1966-67    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (4th)      Bundesliga Süd

1965-66    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (10th)    Bundesliga

1964-65    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (5th)      Bundesliga

1963-64    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (4th)      Bundesliga

1962-63    Füssen (2nd) Riessersee (4th)     Bundesliga

1961-62    Füssen (2nd) Riessersee (3rd)     Bundesliga

1960-61    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (3rd)      Bundesliga

1959-60    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (2nd)      Bundesliga

1958-59    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (4th)       Bundesliga

1957-58    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (2nd)      Oberliga Süd

1956-57    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (2nd)      Oberliga Süd

1955-56    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (2nd)      Oberliga

1954-55    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (3rd)       Oberliga

1953-54    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (5th)       Oberliga

1952-53    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (2nd)      Oberliga

1951-52    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (2nd)      Oberliga Süd

1950-51    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (2nd)      Oberliga Süd

1949-50    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (3rd)        Oberliga

1948-49    Füssen (1st) Riessersee (3rd)       Oberliga

1947-48    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (2nd)       Meisterschaft

1946-47    Riessersee (2nd) Füssen (3rd)       Meisterschaft

1940-41    Riessersee (1st) Füssen (3rd)        Meisterschaft, Gruppe IV

1940         Riessersee (2nd) Füssen (4th)       Meisterschaft, Gruppe B

(In cases where the season was made up of more than one round I've just shown the first round. Don't @ me.)

Halifax's Coat of Arms, 1949

Source.

KTLA, 1949

Some of the voice talent at television station KTLA in 1949. The puppets in the foreground are Beany and Cecil, the stars of Time For Beany, which won the Emmy for best children's show three years in a row. Bob Clampett, who pitched an animated John Carter of Mars movie in the Thirties and worked on those wartime Bugs Bunny cartoons, was producer. He revived the characters of Beany and Cecil for an animated cartoon in the 1960s. Daws Butler went on to voice Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound at Hanna-Barbera. Joan Gardner was Helen in The Jetsons. Stan Freberg had a career as a political satirist in the 1950s, making records for Capitol. Pianist Korla Pandit had his own exotic classical music show. Source.

Fiskegumma

This granite statue of a fishwife which stands on the site of the former fishmarket in Malmö was carved in 1949 by Clarence Blum from Liverpool. Source.

Regatta Day

The first Wednesday of August is Regatta Day on Quidi Vidi Lake in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Royal St. John's Regatta has been going on for 200 years. This is a photo of Bowring's Ladies Championship Crew, 1949. Source.

Maekawa Sempan

Winter at Semi-Onsen, Yamagata (1949) by Maekawa Sempan. This print would make a good cover illustration for Kawabata's Snow Country.

Scottish Cup 1949

PENALTY-KICK MYSTERY

Rangers 4, Clyde 1

    The Scottish Cup Final at Hampden Park on Saturday will be remembered as the match of penalty kicks -- those that were awarded and those that were not. Rangers were worthy winners of the trophy -- their twelfth success in the competition -- but neutral observers must have been mystified that the Ibrox club had two chances to score from the penalty spot and Clyde none.

    The decisions of the referee, Mr R. G. Benzie (Irvine), in penalising Milligan for his tackle of Williamson seven minutes from half-time and for his pushing of Thornton nine minutes after the interval were unhesitatingly given, and Clyde, though they protested against the second award of a penalty kick, had in my opinion, no grievance.

    Midway through the first half, however, when Rangers, even with the wind behind them, were by no means the better side, a flagrant offence of M'Coll in holding Galletly when the Clyde inside forward was about to shoot was ignored by the referee, and in the second half when Clyde were rallying to cut down Rangers' 3-1 lead they claimed three times for a penalty kick -- for handling by Shaw of a Davies cross-shot, for the sandwiching of Wright by Shaw and Woodburn, and for the pushing of Linwood by Woodburn. Such had been the referee's attitude to most inoffensive-looking infringements committed by both sides without the 18-yard lines that it was surprising that all Clyde's appeals were unsucessful.

    Clyde's goal, scored by Galletly three minutes after half-time, was the result of Cox's being penalised in mid-field for a tackling infringement that was the friendliest of gestures compared with the incidents that led to Clyde's claiming penalty kicks against their team-mates, and Young's second penalty conversion followed immediately a free kick awarded to Rangers when it appeared that Long, who was penalised, was in fact the sufferer in the tackle with Duncanson.

    WADDELL OUTSTANDING

    Rangers, without touching their best form at any stage of the match, always appealed as the side more likely to score goals. They had no set plan in attack, but they had in Waddell, the outstanding forward of the ten, a player who could beat his immediate opponent, Mennie, in a variety of ways, and whose splendid crossing should have won the match ten times over. But Thornton and his inside forwards -- particularly the centre forward -- were astonishingly ineffective in the air. Twice Thornton headed over the bar when it seemed much easier to score, and indeed this usually brilliant leader was mastered by the immature Milligan, whose two mistakes in conceding the penalty kicks probably cost Clyde the match.

    Williamson, who scored Rangers' second goal four minutes from half-time, was their next most profitable forward, if only for the shock tactics he introduced. But his timing of Waddell's cross after M'Coll, with the best pass of the game, a long low ball that travelled fully thirty yards to the outside-right's feet, had set the winger moving, was delightful. Duncanson had the fourth goal.

    Brown, like his opposite number, Gullan, had several first-class saves and, again like the Clyde goalkeeper, his share of luck. Soon after Clyde's goal Brown was beaten by a header from Wright that hit the post, and similar scoring efforts from Thornton and Duncanson hit the Clyde crossbar with Gullan not in the picture.

    Shaw was Rangers' best defender, for both Young and Woodburn miskicked dangerously and often. M'Coll and Cox were once more fine wing half-backs but only just superior to Campbell and Long, who not surprisingly tired before the finish. Davies and Linwood formed a sprightly combination, though the centre forward on several occasions was guilty of pushing and spoiled promising attacks.

    Clyde's display was not that of a side haunted by the spectre of relegation, and they deserve congratulations for preventing the match from becoming the one-sided affair so many of the 130,000 spectators anticipated.

Glasgow Herald, April 25, 1949, page 6. Programme.

Pacific 231 (1949)

Jean Mitry's 1949 film is the music video of Arthur Honegger's 1923 orchestral work.

Rock and Roll from 1949

"All She Wants To Do Is Rock" by Wynonie Harris. Listen.

"Good Rockin' Tonight" by Wynonie Harris. Listen.

"Rock The Joint" by Jimmy Preston. Listen.

"The Fat Man" by Fats Domino. Listen.