Clifton & Strathfillan F.C.

Clifton & Strathfillan Football Club was a Scottish association football club from the village of Tyndrum, Perthshire.

Clifton & Strathfillan
Full nameClifton & Strathfillan Football Club
Nickname(s)C and S[1]
Founded1877
Dissolved1879
GroundAuchtertyre
Hon. SecretaryWilliam Harvey

History

The club was founded in 1877; it was essentially a merger between two informal clubs of players from the Clifton and Strathfillan areas. On New Year's Day 1877, the two "clubs" played a 16-a-side match at the start of 1877, the Clifton players wearing blue and white caps, and the Strathfillan players wearing red, it being noted that the combined club had received a number of challenges.[2] The following week the two clubs played the Luss club, and on 12 January 1877, the club played a return match, a 12-a-side game for one hour which ended goalless. Straight after that match, the C and S faced Glenorchy in a 20-a-side game; the C and S won 4–0, with a hat-trick from Sinclair.[3]

The combined club was one of the first three clubs in Stirlingshire to join the Scottish Football Association, doing so in September 1877.[4] At the time, with 87 members, it was easily the biggest senior club in the region.[5]

The club competed in the Scottish Cup for the 1877–78, and, as the draw was regionalized at the time, met the other two Stirlingshire senior clubs in the competition. In the first round, the club beat Shaughraun 2–1; there was a dispute as to the amount of time played when the game was brought to a halt, but the score stood.[6] In the second the club lost 3–0 to Grasshoppers of Bonnybridge, held at the Roman Camp in Callander. One of the spectators was a bagpiper, who "played at intervals during the match", and a dance was held on the pitch afterwards.[7]

The club's remoteness meant that finding opponents was a problem, and in the 1877–78 season it only played 9 matches.[8] For the 1878–79 Scottish Cup, the club moved to the new Perthshire section of the draw, and hosted Vale of Teith,[9] the visitors winning 1–0.[10] The two clubs were drawn together in the first round of the 1879–80 Scottish Cup, but the tie did not take place, as Clfton & Strathfillan had dissolved.[11]

Scottish Cup record

1877–78
  • First round: Won 2–1 v. Shaughraun, 29 September 1877
  • Second round: Lost 0–3 v. Grasshoppers, 20 October 1877

1878–79

Colours

The club wore 1" blue and white hooped jerseys and hose, and white knickers.[12]

Ground

The club played at Auchtertyre, about 15 minutes' walk from Tyndrum station, and had a clubhouse on the ground.[13]

References
  1. "Tyndrum". Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser: 5. 19 May 1877.
  2. "Strathfillan". Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser: 4. 6 January 1877.
  3. "Strathfillan". Crieff Journal: 3. 19 January 1877.
  4. "Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup Drawings". Sporting Chronicle: 3. 18 September 1877.
  5. Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 107.
  6. "Shaughraun (Milton of Campsie) v Clifton and Strathfillan". North British Daily Mail: 3. 2 October 1877.
  7. "Callander". Oban Times & Argyllshire Advertiser: 6. 27 October 1877.
  8. Dick, William (1878). Scottish Football Annual 1878–79. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 68.
  9. "Scottish Football Association Cup". Dundee Evening Telegraph: 4. 11 September 1878.
  10. Dick, William (1879). Scottish Football Annual 1879–80. Glasgow: Dunlop & Foote. p. 54.
  11. Scottish FA Minutes. Glasgow: Scottish Football Association. 30 September 1879. p. 43.
  12. Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 107.
  13. Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 107.
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