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Nithsdale F.C. (1895)
Nithsdale Football Club was an association football club from Dumfries in Scotland, active in the 1890s. History The club is first recorded playing Junior football in the 1895–96 season. Nithsdale took part in the Southern Counties Cup in 1896–97, winning one tie, and turned senior by joining the Scottish Football Association in August 1897. Unlike other senior teams in the area Nithsdale remained a purely amateur side. The club only had two seasons as a senior club. Its 1897–98 season was quite successful, as the club hammered St Cuthbert's Wanderers 5–0 in the first round of the Scottish Qualifying Cup, and only narrowly went down to Dumfries Hibernians in the second round. It also won two ties in the Southern Counties Cup, and Dumfries F.C. Dumfries Football Club was an association football club from Dumfries, Scotland. History The name was used by at least four clubs, the first founded in 1869 and playing exclusively rugby union from 1877, th ... [...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] |
Southern Counties League (Scotland)
The Southern Counties League was a league association football tournament for teams in southern Scotland. History Clubs in the Southern Counties Football Association, based in the south and west of Scotland, tried several times to form a league competition. The most successful of these initial attempts was 1897–98, under the presidency of W. T. Hay of Dumfries, which had seven clubs, and which played long enough to declare a champion in Newton Stewart, which earned 11 points from its 6 games; the only club which came close to playing all its fixtures was Nithsdale, which played 11 times. The organizational shambles however was such that Vale of Dryfe withdrew before the season kicked off, Thornhill before playing a match (replaced by Dumfries Hibernians), and the 6th G.R.V. quit after it had four matches postponed at late notice because of clashing cup commitments. One attempt to raise funds - a match between a Counties side and a Glasgow Football Association side at Cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 Disestablishments In Scotland
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
