Football: Madden equals club scoring record for Yeovil Town

YEOVIL Town striker Paddy Madden equalled a club record today by scoring in his eighth successive league match for the Glovers.

Madden scored Yeovil’s only goal of the game this afternoon in the 1-1 draw at fellow promotion rivals Doncaster Rovers in the npower League One.

PHOTO: Goal machine Paddy Madden who today equalled the club record of scoring in eight successive league matches.

His run of scoring has now equalled the previous time a Glovers’ player scored in eight consecutive league matches – established by Dennis Coughlin in the 1961-62 season when Yeovil were plying their trade in the Southern Premier League.

Coughlin scored a total of 67 goals during his stay at Yeovil which saw him chalk up 114 appearances – an impressive goal-to-game ratio of 1.70.

He first made his breakthrough into the Yeovil first team in the 1959-60 season, but it was not until the 1961-62 campaign that he became a key factor in the team.

He scored 34 goals during that season in 54 appearances including the record of scoring in eight successive league matches – a feat equalled for the first time today by Paddy Madden.

Coughlin’s run of scoring came on February 17, 1962 in a 3-1 win over King’s Lynn at Huish.

He then netted in a 2-1 success at Hereford United on February 24, 1962, and then hit a brace in the 4-1 home win over Worcester City on March 3, 1962, and then scored Yeovil’s only goal of the game in a 1-1 draw with Gravesend and Northfleet at Huish four days later.

Coughlin hit two in a 4-1 win at Tonbridge AFC on March 12, 1962, and then found the net in a 2-0 win over local rivals BathCity at Huish on March 17, 1962.

Game number seven arrived and another goal in the 2-1 win at Gravesend and Northfleet on March 24, 1962, and hit a brace in the 4-0 success over Folkestone Town at Huish on March 29, 1962.

In the past eight Southern Premier League games he had scored; a total of 11 goals. But he failed to find the target in the next game on March 31, 1962, which saw Yeovil win 1-0 with a goal from Dave Taylor.

The following season he netted a further 25 goals fro Yeovil in 35 appearances before making a move to Bournemouth.

To have scored 34 goals in the 1961-62 season and then 25 in 1962-63 you would have thought he was Yeovil’s leading scorer. Think again! Dave Taylor hit 41 in 1961-62 and 26 the following season to pip Coughlin by one.

Taylor, as Yeovil fans will know, is the club’s record goalscorer with a superb total of 284 goals in 436 appearances from between 1960-69 – a fear which will never be bettered.

Madden, just like Coughlin, has now scored 11 goals from the past eight games and will be looking to set a new record on Tuesday (Feb 26) when the Glovers travel to Colchester United in the npower League One in which Madden will look to score for a ninth successive league fixture.

For the record Madden’s eight-game scoring run is as follows: Jan 1, 2013: Yeovil Town 3, Leyton Orient 0. Madden 2; Jan 12, 2013: Sheffield United 0, Yeovil Town 2: Madden 2; Jan 29, 2013: Yeovil Town 2, MK Dons 1: Madden 2; Feb 2, 2013: Yeovil Town 3, Brentford 0: Madden 1; Feb 9, 2013: Coventry City 0, Yeovil Town 1: Madden 1; Feb 12, 2013: Yeovil Town 3, Preston North End 1: Madden 1; Feb 16, 2013: Yeovil Town 3, Scunthorpe United 0: Madden 1; Feb 23, 2013: Doncaster Rovers 1, Yeovil Town 1: Madden 1.

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