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Pollokshaws F.C.
Pollokshaws Football Club was a Scottish association football, football team, based in Pollokshaws, now part of Glasgow (at the time a separate burgh). History The club was founded on 18 April 1884, at a meeting at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, the town hall, as a merger between the Pollok F.C. (1878), Pollok and Sir John Maxwell F.C., Sir John Maxwell clubs; William M'Neil, the match secretary of the Maxwell, was kept on as match secretary for the new club. The club was the second club with the Pollokshaws name, the Pollokshaws F.C. (1876), original club lasting from 1876 to 1878. The new club entered the Scottish Cup and the Renfrewshire Cup for the 1884–85 season. In the former competition, the club received a bye in the first round, and after two draws against Greenock Southern F.C., Southern of Greenock in the second, the club (in accordance with the competition's rules) was given a third-round place. The club's run ended with a 4–0 defeat at Thornliebank F.C., Thornlieb ... [...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] |
