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Vale Of Dryfe F.C.
Vale of Dryfe F.C. was an association football club from Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, active at the turn of the 20th century. History The club was formed at a meeting on 16 November 1896, to provide a Scottish Junior Football Association, Junior club for the town, after the demise of the original Mid-Annandale F.C. (1877), Mid-Annandale club; William Gardner was elected first captain. Its first competitive football came in the Southern Counties Cup, which it entered in 1896–97, and it lost 5–1 to Dumfries Thistle in a replay of its first tie. The Vale protested that Thistle's Gordon was Cup-tied for having played for the 5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers F.C., 5th K.R.V. in the Scottish Cup, in vain. The Vale was one of the ten clubs to sign up for the new South of Scotland Football League, Southern Counties League in June 1897, but it withdrew before the competition started. The Vale had a run of success between 1901 and 1904 at local level. It won the Southern Coun ... [...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] |
