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What does Ted Drake have to do with Chelsea?
Ted Drake was appointed manager of First Division Chelsea Football Club in June 1952.
What did Ted Drake do as manager of Chelsea?
Upon Ted Drake's arrival at Chelsea, he made a series of sweeping changes, doing much to rid the club of its previous amateurish, music hall image.
Are there any other interesting aspects about Ted Drake's time as Chelsea's manager?
Ted Drake discarded the Chelsea Football Club's Chelsea pensioner crest and with it the Pensioners nickname, and insisted a new one be adopted.
What was Chelsea's new crest after the pensioner crest was discarded?
A stop-gap badge with the initials C.F.C. was adopted for 1952. In 1953, the club crest was changed to an upright blue lion looking backwards and holding a staff.
What other changes did Ted Drake implement as Chelsea's manager, besides ridding the club of its previous image?
Ted Drake introduced a training regime based on ballwork, a rare practice in English football at the time, and scouting reports, abandoning Chelsea's previous policy of signing unreliable players.
Was there a team change up to Chelsea after Ted Drake changed the club's signing policy?
Ted Drake used his knowledge of the lower divisions to recruit little-known, but more reliable players. These included John McNichol, Frank Blunstone, Derek Saunders, Jim Lewis and Peter Sillett.

Question: How did the team do after these changes?
Self-contained rewrite: How did Chelsea do after Ted Drake used his knowledge of the lower divisions to recruit players?