First all-India football title: Calicut University celebrates a special golden jubilee
The Hindu
Team members who brought home its first all-India title to be honoured today
The Calicut University Senate Hall will be awash with sweet memories on Tuesday. Memories of a feat achieved 50 years ago.
It was on October 19 in 1971 that Calicut won the all-India inter-university football championship for the first time. For the young university — it had come into existence only three years earlier — it was a fantastic moment; the victory made the front page of regional dailies.
Members of that victorious team, coach C.P.M. Usman Koya and manager C.P. Abubacker will be honoured at a function on Tuesday. Four from the team would be missed: K.P. Ratnatakaran, M.R. Babu, C.S. Sasikumar and Dinesh Patel are no more.
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