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Dumbarton Athletic F.C.
Dumbarton Athletic Football Club was an association football club based in the town of Dumbarton, in Scotland. History The club was founded in 1881. The club was a club of young players; club president (and right-winger) Archibald Little, a shipyard clerk, was still in his teens on foundation, and the club's star players, apprentice shipbuilder Alex Latta, and Geordie Dewar, were in their mid-teens when making their club debuts. Given another star player (James Coleman) was a ship's riveter, and that members of the Denny family had honorary positions on the club's committee, it is likely that the club's origin was in the Denny shipbuilding yard. 1884–85: first competitive season The Athletics were a fast-rising side and in 1884 entered the Scottish Cup for the first time. The club was not expected to beat King's Park F.C. in the second round (having had a bye in the first) but "surprised the most sanguine expectations of its friends" with a 3–1 victory. The club's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
