Which British football club is famed for opening its frozen ground for
ice skating in the winter of 1962-63?
It is one of the following:- Swindon town,Halifax Town,Newcastle
Utd,Manchester Utd,Hull City,Bristol City,Cardiff City,Blackpool
Town,Crystal Palace or Lincoln City.
I need the answer by Friday noon

Hi,

Thanks for providing this interesting bit of trivia to work on! 


The answer to the question is 'Halifax Town Football Club'.

I found the answer to this question at the following sites:

On the official club site it says 'Other sports to be staged at The
Shay include Speedway, Rugby League and in the winter of 1963
ice-skating when the pitch was frozen'.
http://www.halifaxafc.co.uk/club/view/stadium/0,,10437,00.html

There is also reference to this incident at the website of the
National Football Museum:
'...the winter of 1963 was far worse. Hardly any football was played
between January and March and the season overran into June. Halifax
even opened the Shay as an ice-rink to earn some much-needed money.'
http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/news/news6.htm 

Search Strategy:
I used Google with the following search terms:

'Halifax Winter 1963 ice'
://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Halifax+winter+1963+ice&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB

Kind regards,

Ali

Excellent work,top notch,you have saved  me an age searching for
this.There will be another poser next week.