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Thomas Scott
Thomas Scott came out of nowhere: in 1916/17 he was nowhere to be seen, from 1917/18 he was an almost ever present at Right-Back in the Falkirk FC side. This is obviously not true, but it is how it...
View ArticleAlex Gillespie
Although not a Centre-Forward, Alex [never Sandy or Alec] Gillespie was probably Falkirk FC's first consistent goalscorer. The position he took was on the right wing, and this was probably down to his...
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Joseph Gowdy
In the years just after the First War Falkirk looked to expand beyond parrochialism. Before 1914 most players were locals, with other occasional players from all around Scotland. These were...
View ArticleKenneth Dawson 1935/36
Sometimes players play above the norm, sometimes they play 'out of their skins'. Every club has their own incidences, Falkirk FC has many. Of course these are rarely published as Falkirk are not bigots...
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Robert Keyes
In the history of Falkirk Football Club only ten times has a player scored more than thirty goals in a season, three of those players were the same, and what is more it was in consecutive seasons.When...
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William Moore
Not long after Joe Gowdy, came another Irish player, Falkirk went back into the same 'foreign' transfer market, this time without the all the problems. Into that ever troublesome Outside-Left position...
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John Ramsay
I take no credit for finding this gravestone, I found it on the internet whilst looking for details of Falkirk players who died during WWI. It was on one of those fora which document the details so...
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James Neil
Some players belong as much to Falkirk as they do to East Stirlingshire. Most of these players can be identified with one club over the other, however there are a rare few who rise above that nonsense,...
View ArticleMissing Players
In my files of Falkirk matches there are three people who are never listed as Falkirk players, but may have been so. The problem is the usual: lack of contemporary match reports in the local media....
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Best Falkirk FC XI - pre WWII
I have selected this 'best' Falkirk FC XI because of all the nonsense about modern players. Don't get me wrong, not slagging the current folk, I just prefer to research Falkirk FC pre-WWII.Obviously I...
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Falkirk FC Graves – Jerry Dawson
Jerry Dawson comes right at the very back end of where I research, but he does get in, as he made his debut in the Victory Cup, just after the war.Starting at Camelon Juniors, he was so good that he...
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Peter Rae - Falkirk FC Graves
Brought up in the 'rough and tumble' of Gairdoch, the senior club from Carronshore, Peter "The Stag" Rae was the cornerstone of the Falkirk defence for five Seasons. He did play a match for East...
View ArticleFalkirk Amateurs - The First Season
A long, long time ago there was a second Senior club in Falkirk [East Stirlingshire were in Bainsford], they were called Falkirk Amateurs. They played in many places round the town but at the start of...
View ArticleRedding Athletic v Camelon 24th Sept 1887
Very rarely does a record take place in Falkirk, but occasionally these things do happen, and so was the case in September of 1887 when Camelon defeated Redding Athletic by 17 goals to nil in the...
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Jimmy Conlin
Jimmy Conlin was one of the ones that got away, coming to Falkirk from Lanarkshire Junior football, spending a season and a half at the club, before going back to Coatbridge, then to the English League...
View ArticleEast Stirlingshire v Falkirk - Stirlingshire Cup Final 1888
When writing this blog, I have prided myself on two things, I like to stray from the topic of Falkirk FC [perhaps not often enough, but I am a bairn!], and I never shy away from parts of Falkirk's less...
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Harry Smith
Coming, as a teenager, from "Darn Sarff" to take up a position in Abbot's Foundry as a lowly cashier Henry [more commonly known as Harry] Smith ended up as Managing Director of the company, but not...
View ArticleThe Great Unspoken
If you listen really carefully, I mean very hard: block out all that white noise nonsense coming from Glasgow and the media in general, you can sometimes hear a slight murmuring. Only occasionally and...
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Alex Stark
Alex "Buttons" Stark was probably Falkirk FC's and certainly my favourite player in those years before the club joined the League. Sandy, as he was sometimes known, was a born and bred Falkirk Bairn,...
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Thomas McDonald
I could not possibly write about Alex Stark without complementing it with a post about his "partner in crime" :- Thomas McDonald ever the Inside-Right to Alex's Outside-Right.Thomas McDonald caused me...
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