Huntingtower F.C.
Huntingtower Football Club was a football club from the village of Huntingtower and Ruthvenfield, Perthshire, Scotland. History The club was formed as a Junior club in September 1890, and was a founder member of the Perthshire Junior League, in which it played without success for two seasons. The first recorded match for the club is a 6–1 win over the Tulloch club's second XI in November 1891. Scottish Cup entries The club turned senior in 1895 and first entered the Scottish Cup in 1896, at a time when the Scottish Qualifying Cup had been introduced to reduce the number of one-sided ties in the early rounds. The club's first entry saw it reach the third round, losing to Duncrub Park one round short of making the Cup proper. The club entered the Scottish Cup every year - other than when interrupted by World War One - until 1930–31. The only time the club made the Scottish Cup proper was in 1919–20, by reaching the fifth round of the Qualifying Cup, at which stage al ...
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. 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 and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ...
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Falkirk Amateurs F
Falkirk ( ; ; ) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire. It lies in the Forth Valley, northwest of Edinburgh and northeast of Glasgow. Falkirk had a resident population of 32,422 at the 2001 UK Census. The population of the town had risen to 34,570 according to a 2008 estimate, making it the 20th most populous settlement in Scotland. Falkirk is the main town and administrative centre of the Falkirk council area, which has an overall population of 156,800 and inholds the nearby towns of Grangemouth, Bo'ness, Denny, Camelon, Larbert and Stenhousemuir, and the cluster of Braes villages. The town is at the junction of the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals, a location which proved key to its growth as a centre of heavy industry during the Industrial Revolution. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Falkirk was at the centre of the iron and steel industry, underpinned by the Carron Company in nearby Carron. The co ...
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Association Football Clubs Disestablished In 1953
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Defunct Football Clubs In Scotland
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Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd) or simply United, is a professional association football, football club based in Old Trafford (area), Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. Nicknamed the Red Devils, they were founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed their name to Manchester United in 1902. After a spell playing in Clayton, Manchester, the club moved to their current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910. Domestically, Manchester United have won a joint-record twenty List of English football champions#Total titles won, top-flight league titles, thirteen FA Cups, six EFL Cup, League Cups and a record twenty-one FA Community Shields. Additionally, in international football, they have won the UEFA Champions League, European Cup/UEFA Champions League three times, and the UEFA Europa League, the ...
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Huntingtower Castle
Huntingtower Castle, once known as Ruthven Castle or the Place of Ruthven, is located near the village of Huntingtower beside the A85 and near the A9, about 5 km NW of the centre of Perth, Perth and Kinross, in central Scotland, on the main road to Crieff. This castle is the subject for several local ghostlore stories. History Huntingtower Castle was built at least by the 14th century as it was one of the castles owned by the Lords of Badenoch. Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, called the Wolf of Badenoch for his misdeeds, died there in 1394. Later, in the 15th century the castle was claimed by the Huntly family, or by the Clan Ruthven family. It was known for several hundred years as the 'House (or 'Place') of Ruthven' or 'Ruthven Castle', or simply 'Ryffane', until the family was forfeited for the Gowrie Conspiracy in 1600 and the Ruthven name was suppressed by Act of Parliament. As contemporary writers reported, the "prinsipall howse callyd Ryven is now callyd the ...
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Perthshire Cup
The Perthshire Cup was an association football cup competition for clubs in the county of Perthshire, Scotland. The competition was founded in 1884 and was last competed for in the 1974–75 season. Format The competition was a knock-out tournament contested by the member clubs of the Perthshire Football Association. Initial entrants * Blairgowrie Our Boys * Breadalbane * Coupar Angus * Crieff * Dunblane * Erin Rovers * Fair City Athletic * Pullar's Rangers * Teith Bank Rovers * Vale of Allan * Vale of Teith History The first draw for the competition took place on 20 December 1884, with clubs divided between eastern and western divisions. The first final was between Dunblane and Vale of Teith, at Fair City's ground at Hillyland in Perth. The Vale took a three-goal lead inside 20 minutes, but Dunblane pulled the score back to 3–3 by the 70th minute, and Laidlaw of Dunblane secured the trophy with a goal in the 83rd minute. It was considered a senior competition in its ...
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Perthshire League
The Perthshire League was a league association football tournament for teams in Perthshire, Scotland. History The League was set up on 8 January 1898 at a meeting at the White Horse Hotel in Perth, by representatives of five of the senior clubs, plus two junior, clubs in the county: * Airleywight * Duncrub Park * Huntingtower * Luncarty * Scone * Stanley * Tulloch Having helped to set up the League, Duncrub Park decided not to take part, although it did finally join the League in 1901. The competition was aimed at clubs in the county, rather than urban areas, so clubs from Perth were not included. The first champion, in 1897–98, was Scone, which won every one of its 10 matches. Luncarty withdrew after three games of the 1898–99 season and was replaced the following year by Bridge of Earn. Clubs from Perth were able to join from the 1901–1902 season, but the two Perth clubs which did join - Fair City Athletic and Perth West End - did not finish the season; both were e ...
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Vale Of Atholl F
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Blairgowrie Amateurs F
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