This letter from a BwB reader came in unsigned.
“The achievement this season of Hearts winning 10-0 against Cowdenbeath has been the highest score for a long time,” he/she wrote.
“Being long in the tooth, I remember on March 8, 1947, Dundee beating Alloa 10-0 at Recreation Park.
“One week later, on the 15th, the Dark Blues won 10-0 yet again, this time against Dunfermline at Dens Park.
“Dee striker Albert Juliussen, known as ‘Julie’, scored six in the first game and seven against the Pars.”
Juliussen finished joint top scorer for the Dee that season with 33 goals and that included missing well over a dozen games, presumably through injury.
Ernie Ewen was the other Dens Park marksman to finish on 33 but he played in 35 games compared to Julie’s 22. Their goals helped Dundee win the Scottish League B Division that season, three points ahead of runners-up Airdrie.
The reader continued: “In the same year, Dundee played Dundee United on New Year’s Day and the former played for the first time with numbers on the jerseys.
“Yet again in the same year, due to a bad winter (the year of bad snow), the Scottish Cup tie with Aberdeen at Dens was played to a finish as there were no replays.
“The game finished in the 129th minute.
“In these days, most city football fans went to Dens one week and Tannadice the next.
“Crowd problems were rare.
“Those were the days.”
Speaking of Albert Juliussen, my long-time friend is his son Lawrence.
“Lawrence, also nicknamed ‘Jooly’ but with a different spelling, has set up a website to highlight his father’s footballing achievements.
The link is http://www.lawrence-juliussen-photography.co.ukalbert-juliussen-julie/
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