The 1969–70 Santosh Trophy was the 26th edition of the

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, the main

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. It was held in 1969 in Nowgong,

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6–1 in the final; Mohammed Habib scored five of the goals.

Early rounds

''Tripura led 4-1 at half-time, all four goals scored by Das. The tournament was inaugurated by S.K. Dutta, the Chief Justice of Assam and Nagaland'' ''1-1 at half time'' ''1-1 at half time'' ''Orissa led 4-0 at half time.'' ''Goa led 7-0 at half-time. Lobo scored the first four goals''

Pre quarter-finals

''Rajasthan captain Bhoor Singh was sent off in the second half for hitting Jaffar in the face.Andhra led 4-0 at half time.'' ''Madras 3-0 at half time.'' ''Bengal 1-0 at half time.''

Quarter-finals

Shyam Thapa provided the assist for Aziz's goal. Bengal led 5-0 at half-time. The match was played on a rain-soaked, slow pitch.

Semi-finals

Matches

Services received the penalty after Prabhakar fouled Shyam Thapa. Aziz scored in both halfs. ''Services won 4–1 on aggregate.'' Aziz and Williams provided assists for Thapa. Several players were injured including Herrick of Services (11th minute) and Ulaganathan of Mysore (31st minutes) who were carried off the field with leg injuries. ---- ''Bengal won 10–1 on aggregate.'' Ghosh Dastidar was sent off in the 13th minute of the second half for kicking Habeeb Khan.

Final

Habib's five goals is the most scored in a Santosh Trophy final. Bengal scored the first goal when a freekick by Pranab Ganguly shot up in the air off Ghosh Dastidar's body and Habib deflected it into the empty net. Services missed a chance a minute later when Aziz's shot was saved off the line by Kalyan Saha. Habib provided the assist for Lahiri for the second goal and Lahiri provided the assist for the next. Habib's third goal came from a solo run and the fourth from a pass by substitute Sitesh Das. * Bengal : Balai Dey, Sudhir Karmakar, Kalyan Saha, Ashok Banerjee, Santo Mitra, Kalon Guha, Priyalal Mazumdar, Bimal Lahiri (Sitesh Das), S Ghosh Dastidar,

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, Pranab Ganguly * Services : Jeet Bahadur, Nelson Bose, Khairuddin, Sajwan (Bir Bahadur), Rajesh Kumar, Narsingh Gurang, AJ Paul, K Williams, Shyam Thapa, Aziz, PB Saha (Harikrishen)

Squads

* Kerala : Pradeep, Hameed and Pappachan; CR Balakrishnan(C), Jos Ulahannan, GK Subramaniam, Abubacker, MO Jose and Jaffer; Jose Augustine, PV Ramakrishnan and Prasannan; KG Vijayan, Alphonso, Sreenivasan, Joseph, Williams and Raghavan Nair * Madras : R.Mohan, Dhananjayan, Cletus (State Bank); P.Krishnan, J.R.Williams, T. Thangaraj, A.H.Mallick (Wimco); P.M.Radhakrishnan, T.Gangadharan, K.B.Mohanavelu, M.Padmanadhan, M.Annadorai, S.Victor (Reserve Bank); A.Palaniswamy, Sriramulu (ICF); Gabriel Joseph (Air Force)Madras team for the Santosh Trophy
Indian Express, 27 September, 1969, p.16

References

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