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Yep, Mid-Week Football League through the 70s and early 80s, we joined the Football Combination in the 1982-83 season.

I've posted about this on here before, but essentially there has been a gradual morphing from what you describe, to the "development squad" system that all top teams now subscribe to. To be fair, the reserves of old always had their fair share of youngsters attempting to make the breakthrough...