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In
1930,none of the Indian clubs, including Mohun Bagan
participated in the League as well as IFA Shield because of
the prevailing political turmoil. However, Mohun Bagan won
the Suryakanta Shield of Moimonsingh that year.
In
1931,Mohun Bagan defeated Leicester regiment, the Prince of
Wales and Calcutta Customs but lost to Highland Infantry.
That year Club lost its key person Subadar Major Sailen Basu.
On his memory, Club handed over a Shield to IFA, which was
to be rewarded to the winning team of the exhibition match
between European and Indian teams, each year.
In
1932, Sibdas Bhaduri, the icon of Mohun Bagan’s 1911 team
passed away. An award was declared for the Captain of each
year’s Shield winning team as his memento. Dwijendranath
Basu, brother of Sailen Basu, who was in the charge of
Secretaryship for a long time, Club’s founder members
P.N.Mitra and Ajay Kumar Barat also passed away this year.
Famous Barrister Shailendranath Banerjee became the honorary
General Secretary of the Club.
In
1933,Club lost to York and Lancashire in the IFA Shield. But
won Dwarbhanga Shield, the Governor’s Cup of Hazaribagh
and Lady Shifton Shield. Gostho Pal, after being elected as
the Captain of the Club, left for Ceylon(Srilanka). Karuna
Bhattacharya and Samad were also included in the team.
Next
year, in 1934,Dr.Sanmatho Dutta was sent as the Captain of
IFA team for South African tournament as a substitute of
Gostho Pal, as Pal was ill. Satu Chowdhury and Karuna
Bhattacharya were also included.
In
1935,Abdul Hamid from Quetta (now in Pakistan)
joined Mohun Bagan. He played as center half. Hamid for the
first time inspired the players to play wearing boots.
In
1936, Club’s second Secretary, Sir Rajendranata Mukherjee
and 1911 team member Bijoy Das Bhaduri expired.
In
1937, Club’s third Secretary, Sir Bhupendranath Mitra, and
two other important associates of Mohun Bagan, Dr.J.N.Basu
and Jatindranath Mitra also expired. In the same year, at
the Shield tournament, Club lost to List shire Regiment in
the fourth round, during extra time. Mohun Bagan played its
first international match in home country this year against
Englishton Corinthians of England. It was an exhibition
match and despite losing by 0-1 goals, it held a celebration
party to pay tribute to the winning team. Such was Mohun
Bagan’s attitude. It was not only an organized football
team, it was an elite club. And still it is, the cream of
the crop. That’s why, regarding the selection of the
Captain of the National Football Team, Mohun Bagan’s
players has been chosen a number of times.
In
1938, for the Australian Tournament, Karuna Bhattacharya was
elected the Captain of the Indian team. This year, Club won
the Trades Cup. Mohun Bagan and Calcutta Club combined
played a match against a Burmese team.
In
1939, yet another big achievement added to Mohun Bagan’s
credit. Mohun Bagan became the First Division League
champion. That year there was a clash between IFA and three
clubs, Kalighat, East Bengal and Mohammedan, which was later
settled at the beginning of the next year. In the 20’s and
30’s, some of the valuable players who drove Mohun Bagan
to the top, deserve to be mentioned. Gostho Pal, Umapoti
Kumar,Robi Ganguly, R.Sen(kanai), Balaidas Chattopadhyay,
Shudhangshu Basu, Mona Dutta, R.Sen, Nagen Kali, P.Dasgupta
,Santosh Dutta, A.Bhattacharya, V.Kuthari, P.Dutta,
S.Banerjee, P.Pramanik,R.Das, M. Dev, Narayan, B.Sarkar,
K.Banerjee, Dr.Sanmatha Dutta, Rajen Ghosh, A.Roy(Jamai),
M.Sengupta, Moni Das, A.Sur, T.Shome(Bagha), Sushil
Chatterjee, Bahadur
Bothra, T.Chowdhury, H.Mukherjee, Abdul Hamid, Darbari Dutta,
Premlal, Jamini Banerjee, BeniPrasad, B.Mukherjee, R.C.
Dafadar, S.dasgupta(Poltu), Niraj Ganguly, Fajlur Rahman,
Ashu Dutta, Hemango Basu, Robi Basu, Naren Banerjee, Surya
Chakraborty, Karuna Bhattacharya, Atli, Satu Chowdhury,
K.K.Basu, S.A.Samad,
A.Ganguly(Poltu), S.Mitra(Langcha), S.Guin(Mana),
R.Chowdhury, A.Roychowdhury and many others.
The
team of 1939 League Champion comprised of
1.Bimal
Mukherjee(Captain)
2.K.Dutta
(Haradhon)(Goal)
3.Poritosh
Chakraborty
4.Anil
Dey
5.Dr.Sanmatha
Dutta
6.A.Roychowdhury
7.Mohini
Banerjee
8.Beni
Prasad
9.Premlal,
10.S.Debroy
11.J.Ghosh
12.B.Dey
13.S.Dey
14.K.Banerjee
15.S.Seth
16.R.Sen
17.S.Dutta
(Chhotu)
18.Satu
Chowdhury
In 1939-40,
Club went to Ceylon (Srilanka) with Cricket and Football teams with
Cricket Captain Dhiren De and Football Captain Poltu Ganguly.
Mohun Bagan celebrated its Golden Jubilee in the same year
with great enthusiasm. Play was enacted, a match was
organized with some renowned ex-players, medals and jerseys
were distributed to players, by Kumar Sachindra Narayan
Sanyal, son of Queen of Purtia and A.D.Kumar and many other
party celebrations mark 1939 as an extremely memorable year.
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