PRESTON North End's first away game of the season was a mid-week trek to Brentford on September 1.

North End kept an unchanged team following their 4-1 win against Grimsby Town even though Beresford had received treatment from the trainer in that game when he was temporarily knocked out cold.

It took just four minutes of the match at brentford for Preston to make their mark on the game when Jimmy Dougal headed in from Hugh O'Donnell's centre.

By half-time it looked as if North End were controlling the game with their slick passing ability being the prominent feature.

But as we all know its a game of two halves and the second half belonged to the home side, even though Reid missed a penalty just four minutes after the restart.

On 65 minutes Brentford equalised through Scott who had evaded his marker and was momentarily unmarked.

Revitalised Brentford had Preston rattled according to one match report and soon claimed a second goal through Reid who atoned for his missed penalty earlier in the game.

Frank O'Donnell had been well checked and the Preston attack on the whole, which showed great first half promise, was subdued in the end as PNE lost 2-1.

Three days later PNE visited Leeds United who had beaten Chelsea and drawn at Charlton Athletic.

It turned out to be one of those games where you had a feeling that it would end up goalless, and it did.

Apparently only three genuine scoring chances were created during the 90 minutes as the match was ruled by the defences.

Two of the chances fell to Preston, the best of which, from Dougal, hit the foot of the post with the goalkeeper beaten.

A lively ball and the hard dusty ground helped beat both sides but North End to their credit finished the game strongly with Leeds on the defensive.

Andy Beattie was reported as being the best defender on show even though he had only played twenty games at full-back for Preston's first team.

He must have been outstanding as he had already appeared in the 1937 FA Cup Final and been a surprise selection for the Scotland team, an old head on young shoulders.

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