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Pen Pic - James Macrae - East Stirlingshire FC - 1907
Here is another Prominent Player from Falkirk District in 1907, this time a 'shire player James Macrae, which means I really do not know that much about him. Read the bio I say.I will go and look at...
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East Stirlingshire v Stoke - 6th August 1887
From the Falkirk Herald Saturday 13th August 1887.EAST STIRLINGSHIRE v STOKEThe East Stirlingshire opened their season at Merchiston Park, Bainsford, on Saturday by a match with Stoke-on-Trent, the...
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Robert Hamilton - President of Falkirk FC 1908
I know I normally post about football players, and to be fair it is because there is not very much of interest to say about football club board members or directors or whatever. And rightly so. But I...
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Pen Pics - Robert McTavish - Falkirk FC - 1907
Unlike his big brother 'Jock', Robert McTavish did not really get a chance to prove himself in what must have been one of the best Falkirk FC sides of all time. One of the main reasons for his not...
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Pen Pic - William McLachlan - East Stirlingshire FC - 1907
Another East Stirlingshire player that I don't know much about over and above what is written below. Not only is it not my team, it is more than a Century ago. I can find no record of him at another...
View ArticleEast Stirlingshire v Glasgow XI - 1887
In the 19th Century Charity matches played by combined teams were far more common than they are these days, especially at the beginning and end of the seasons. The clubs in Falkirk District would often...
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Pen Pic - John Reid - East Stirlingshire FC - 1907
Like many of the other East Stirlingshire players I have reproduced from the Prominent Players series today's player John Reid seems to dissapear shortly after the Falkirk Herald lauded them. Since I...
View ArticleSt Andrews v Grasshoppers - Scottish Cup 1876
The first Scottish Cup match played by a team from Falkirk District, in fact from Stirlingshire, was played in Edinburgh of all places. I believe that back then the early rounds of the Scottish Cup...
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Falkirk CC v Falkirk FC - 28th May 1887
Well, yes, there is a very good reason why Falkirk FC stuck to football.Though, it must be said that Harry Smith, Falkirk CC's opening bat & leg spinner, was also an old Falkirk footballer..
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Pen Pic - William Folley - Falkirk FC 1907
I suppose when the Falkirk Herald decided their Prominent Football Players it must have all been relative, because some of the players have largely been forgotten to history. Or perhaps they were more...
View ArticleGrasshoppers v Airdrie Football Club - Sat 20th November 1875
In the mid 1870s football reporting at a local level was very rare, local papers did not really report on away matches, and a lot of the football was simply a scoreline, so it is delightful to find the...
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Midland Club - Greenhill
I have blogged once or twice about the Grasshoppers of Bonnybridge, rightly so as they were the first football club in the district. But it is easy enough to find out about them, they have their own...
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Pen Pic - Peter Murdoch - East Stirlingshire FC - 1907
Another East Stirlingshire player, another player who seemed to come under the Falkirk Herald's East Stirlingshire/Prominent Football Player Curse. As in I find no record of him after this season. It...
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Pen Pic - Hugh Ross McDougal - Falkirk FC - 1907
The latest subject of the Prominent Football Players series, Hugh McDougal was a Highlander [hailing from Kilmallie] who had moved to the Central Belt to take up teaching. Making him one of that rare...
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Pen Pic - William Raisbeck - Falkirk FC - 1907
Willie Raisbeck came from a Slamannan/Larkhall football dynasty: the Raisbecks produced several footballers at the turn of the Century. Born in Wallacestone [and not Wallacetown, Ayrshire like it says...
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Pen Pic - William Morris - East Stirlingshire FC - 1907
One of those players that was once 'famous' but now largely forgotten, William Morris played over 200 league matches for East Stirlingshire between the turn of the Century and the outbreak of the War....
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Pen Pic - John McTavish - Falkirk FC - 1907
The great John McTavish paired up with John Simpson to create one of the greatest right-wing partnerships in the history of Falkirk FC. Interestingly the two players careers match well, both joining...
View ArticleStoke v East Stirlingshire - 2nd January 1888
I just came across an "article" about East Stirlingshire's [indeed any club from Stirlingshire's] first venture into foreign climes; when they journeyed south to Stoke-on-Trent to play a return...
View ArticleMidland v Grasshoppers - Sat 5th Feb 1876
In my ongoing attempt to cover early football in Central Scotland I have to cover some of the really early matches about which, it sometime seems, I am the only person that has any interest, but, the...
View ArticleGrasshoppers v Smith & Wellstood's Employees - Sat 18th Mar 1876
Falkirk Herald - Thu 23rd March 1876FootballBonnybridge Grasshoppers v Smith & Wellstood's Employees, Glasgow - These two teams met on the ground of the former on Saturday last, and a well...
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