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Newmilns F.C.
Newmilns Football Club was a football club from the village of Newmilns, Ayrshire, Scotland. History The club was originally the footballing branch of the 2nd Ayrshire Rifle Volunteers, a company in the Volunteer movement of the British Army, and played under the 2nd A.R.V. name. The club was admitted as member of the Scottish Football Association in 1887 and entered both the Scottish Cup and the Ayrshire Cup for the first time in 1887–88. The club lost in the first round of the Cup in both 1887–88 and 1888–89 to Maybole, both times in replays, the Maybole side being rewarded for the second win with a case of brandy. In 1889 the club changed its name to Newmilns, possibly to widen its constituency, and seemingly also absorbing two other clubs from the village (Newmilns Rangers and Newmilns Star) which vanish from the records afterwards. The move paid immediate dividends in the national competition, as the club won a tie for the first time in the 1889–90 competit ... [...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] |
Greenock Abstainers F
Greenock (; sco, Greenock; gd, Grianaig, ) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland, United Kingdom and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It forms part of a contiguous urban area with Gourock to the west and Port Glasgow to the east. The 2011 UK Census showed that Greenock had a population of 44,248, a decrease from the 46,861 recorded in the 2001 UK Census. It lies on the south bank of the Clyde at the "Tail of the Bank" where the River Clyde deepens into the Firth of Clyde. History Name Place-name scholar William J. Watson wrote that "Greenock is well known in Gaelic as Grianáig, dative of grianág, a sunny knoll". The Scottish Gaelic place-name ''Grianaig'' is relatively common, with another (Greenock) near Callander in Menteith (formerly in Perthshire) and yet another at Muirkirk in Kyle, now in East Ayrshire. R. M. Smith in (1921) described the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
