WOMAN OF 68 WHO PLAYS FOOTBALL
Many Anonymous Letters
"Dominion" Special Service.—By Air Mail. London, March 6. Anonymous letters are pouring in on 68-year-old Mrs. Alice Mary Skilton, of Turnchapel, near Plymouth, because she plays football for the Turnchapel women’s team. “I am annoyed at these letters, as some of them are most abusive,” Mrs. Skilton said, “but I do not intend giving up the game even if I receive 1000 letters. I had never played football till last season, but I think it is a grand game.” • Mrs. Skilton’s appearance in the ranks of footballers followed her marriage three years ago. "Before becoming a bride,” she said, “I was a shy, retiring spinster. Marriage seemed to give me new life. I have become quite young again, and never felt fitter in my life.”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 11
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