STRIKER Paul Aimson became the first Town player to score four goals in one game for 11 years.

And the supporters were only sorry his impressive feat came in the West Riding Cup rather than the League.

Macclesfield-born former Manchester City apprentice Aimson had joined Town from Bradford City two months earlier.

Having also played for York and Bury, he boasted a fine record of 70 goals in 147 League games on his arrival.

He netted on his Town debut, a 3-1 home win over Derby, and scored four more in the League that season.

He also got the goal which eliminated his previous club from the county cup semi-finals to set up a showdown with Bradford Park Avenue at Leeds Road.

Avenue had just finished bottom of Division IV, and were no match for a Town side mid-table in Division II.

The 25-year-old Aimson formed a deadly attacking triangle with Steve Smith and Frank Worthington.

And it was one of those nights on which everything he touched turned to goals.

The opener came in the 43rd minute, fired home on the turn after Brian Hill nodded down a Worthington cross.

The second arrived four minutes after the break, Aimson smashing the ball into the roof of the net when a Smith shot was parried by goalkeeper David Lawson.

The centre-forward nipped in ahead of defender Gary Hudson to steer home a Smith cross after 65 minutes.

Then, less than 60 seconds after Chuck Drury had pulled one back in the 85th minute, Aimson grabbed his fourth with a well-struck angled shot.

The last Town player to have pulled off the four-goal feat was Ken Taylor, in a 6-2 home win over West Ham in Division II in February, 1957.

It looked as though Town had acquired an ace marksman, but the season after, Aimson notched only eight times, after which he rejoined York.

Having helped York win promotion from Division IV in 1965, he repeated the feat in 1971, ensuring major popularity with the Bootham fans.

After short spells with Bournemouth and Colchester, his career was ended by a knee injury suffered late in 1973.

In an interesting West Riding Cup twist, the two goalkeepers ended up playing for the other club!

Lawson, above, was signed by Town in the summer of 1969, and became the country's costliest No1 when he joined Everton for £80,000 three years later.

Huddersfield's Wilson Rose, who turned out for Town as a trialist several times that season, played for Avenue after they lost their League place in 1970 until the club went defunct in 1974.