football
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team located in the town of Rutherglen that competed in the
Scottish Amateur Football League
The Scottish Amateur Football League (SAFL) is Scotland's oldest football league competition for amateur teams in Scotland. Although the League officially records itself as having been founded in 1909, when Scottish Football League club Queen's ...
, and also the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,works team
A works team (sometimes factory team, company team) is a sports team that is financed and run by a manufacturer or other business. Sometimes, works teams contain or are entirely made up of employees of the supporting company.
Association footb ...
associated with the large J & J White chemical processing plant in the
Shawfield
Shawfield is an industrial/commercial area of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located to the north of the town centre. It is bordered to the east by the River Clyde, to the north by the Glasgow neighbourhood of Oatl ...
district of Rutherglen. They came to prominence in the 1930s and won the Third Division of the
Scottish Amateur Football League
The Scottish Amateur Football League (SAFL) is Scotland's oldest football league competition for amateur teams in Scotland. Although the League officially records itself as having been founded in 1909, when Scottish Football League club Queen's ...
in 1935–36, followed by the Second Division in 1936–37.Scottish Amateur Football League winners /ref> For most of their history they played in blue. Another local team, ''Clyde Paper'' – based at a paper mill in the Farme Cross district – were also fairly successful in the amateur league in the same period.
The club participated in the 1st round proper of the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1947–48, 1954–55, 1955–56 and 1956–57. The club was placed in the short-lived Midlands section of the Scottish Qualifying Cup in 1947–48 and by reaching the last four the club qualified for the Scottish Cup proper, losing 8–0 at
St Mirren F.C.
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in the first round. The club's 1950s appearances were at a time when the Scottish Qualifying Cup was temporarily not held, thus making it easier to appear in the main cup.
The club appears to have disbanded after the 1963–64 season, around the same time the works ceased operating.
Ground
The address of the ground was given as Quay Road in Rutherglen. The pitch and other facilities formed part of the recreational provision provided by the works. Incidentally, the 1955 Scottish Cup competition in which the Amateurs competed was won by
Clyde F.C.
Clyde Football Club is a Scottish semi-professional Association football, football club who play in Scottish League One. Formed in 1877 at the River Clyde in Glasgow, the club host their home matches at New Douglas Park, having played at Broad ...
, whose ground
Shawfield Stadium
Shawfield Stadium is a closed greyhound racing, football and speedway venue in the Shawfield district of the town of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located close to the boundary with Glasgow.
Originally a football ground, Shawfield w ...