Match by Match Reports

14^th December 1962

2^nd Round – Home to Huddersfield Town

Won 6-0

Scorers – Gerry Glover (3), Tommy Wright (2), Colin Harvey

YOUTH CUP
Liverpool Daily Post –Wednesday December 5, 1962
GLOVER HITS THREE FOR EVERTON
EVERTON 6 HUDDERSFIELD 0
By Paul O'Brien
Everton joined Liverpool in the draw for the third round of the F.A Youth Cup with this victory at a mist-shrouded Goodison Park last night. This mist was so thick that for most of the match it was impossible to follow play on the far side of the pitch from the Press box, but there appeared to be very few flaws in this Everton team. Full backs Harcombe and Coxon rarely let the Huddersfield wingers get into a position to threaten danger, while the half back line of Hurst, Smith and Coupe had the opposing inside trio bottled up. Inside right Harvey did most of the scheming for the Everton attack, and his wing partner Shaw responded magnificently. Glover, who scored three of Everton's goals, showed that he has lost little of the touch which gave him the Liverpool Schoolboys scoring record last season, while Wright at inside left, proved to be a strong player with a shot in either foot. Glover scored the first goal after seventeen minutes pushing the ball home from six yards out following a fine run by Shaw. Five minutes later Glover was again on hand to finish off a neat piece of play by Wright with a shot from ten yards and two minutes later Wright burst through in the middle of the field to score. Glover turned a neat centre by Roberts into the near corner for Everton's fourth goal at 65 minutes, then at the 80th minute another typical burst by Wright produced Everton's fifth. The scoring was completed a minute from time when Harvey volleyed the ball home from twenty yards.

14^th January 1963

3^rd Round – Home to Sheffield United

Lost 0-2

YOUTH GAME
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Saturday, January 12, 1963
By Alex Young
YOUTH GAME
As I have told you before there are many players of promise among these youngsters and weather permitting you will be able to see some of them in action at Goodison Park in Monday evening when Everton entertain Sheffield United in an F.A Youth Cup Tie.  Due to the icy conditions most of the training at Goodison this week has been indoors but on Wednesday we were taken out to Formby for a morning by the sea.  Running about on the sandhills was followed by ball practice on the beach and I believe there was a sigh of relief when Tom Eggleston did not insist that we rounded off the proceedings with a dip in the sea.  The busiest Everton player during the cold spell has undoubtedly been Tony Kay who had to fit in house hunting expeditions between training sessions and visits to his family who are still in Sheffield.  Although as you know I am in favour of a short break in the football programme when the really bad weather hits us and the grounds become hard or unduly heavy, I nevertheless think that an extension to the season should be avoided if possible.

SWINGING UNITED K.O. EVERTON
Liverpool Echo & Evening Express- Tuesday, January 15, 1963
By Paul O’Brien
Everton made a rather undistinguished exit from this season’s F.A Youth Cup competition when they were beaten 2-0 by Sheffield United on a snow-covered Goodison Park last night.  United thoroughly deserved their win for this Everton side was only a shadow of the one which had beaten Huddersfield so conclusively in the previous round.  The Sheffield boys did not enjoy as much of the game territorially at the home team, but they mastered the conditions better and rarely looked in danger of losing.  One big difference was that United kept moving the ball forward and waited for the opposition to make mistakes where’s Everton were continually making two passes where one would have been sufficient. 
MISTAKES
It was by these attics of swinging the ball about that United got both their goals and mistakes by Everton defenders helped them on each occasion.  Outside-right Alan Woodward scored the first after nine minutes when Coxon slipped in trying to intercept a pass from inside-right Mike B. Jones and left the winger in the clear.  The second goal came after 28 minutes when Frank Barlow last year’s England schoolboys captain, fastened onto a mistake by Everton centre half, Derek Smith rounded Smith and goal keeper Ken Mulhearn then slipped the ball into the middle for centre forward Sam Clarke, to make no mistake.  Everton had bad luck in the opening minutes when Sheffield’s youth international right back Len Badger turned the ball against his own upright and then in the second half when a cracking drive from right half Bernard Coupe crashed against the crossbar from 30 yards but these incidents apart they only had Ken Walton the United keeper in difficulties on two occasions. 
OUTSTANDING
The game’s honours went to the Sheffield defence in which Badger was outstanding.  For Everton none tried harder than Colin Harvey, who wore the No.7 jersey but mainly operated in the inside forward position.  Best in the Everton defence were centre half Smith, who atoned for his earlier mistake with some clever interception and well-timed tackles and right half Coupe, who continually kept trying to prod some life into his usually quiet forward colleagues.