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Sydney & Leonard Puddefoot
It is well recorded that Sydney Puddefoot signed for Falkirk in the 1920s after having wowed the fans when he was stationed in Scotland during the Great War. The Falkirk fans & the board put all...
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Motherwell Thieves
Now I have never been a big fan of Motherwell, either as a town or a Football Club [and don't get me wrong this goes way further back than when that fat, ignorant get Cowan got on the BBC], and it...
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Three Falkirk FC Players in one House
I spend a lot of time digging about the geneological records with the same gusto as some category-Z celebs on "Who do you think you are?", Except, I am not trying to prove I am related to royalty.The...
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In Search of the Founders of Falkirk FC : William Gentleman
For a good number of years I have been looking out for traces of the founders of my favourite club Falkirk FC [and I can tell you it has been arduous and they have been elusive], but where is that to...
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Sorry, I have been reading a lot of newspapers and although some points of interest have come up nothing too interesting, unless you think that Jimmy Henderson playing for Falkirk, Falkirk Amateurs...
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Stirlingshire's Pioneer Clubs
Lenzie? WTF? Since when has Lenzie ever been in Stirlingshire?FH 27th Dec 1933
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Joshua Cochrane 1894
I recently found a drawing of Joshua Cochrane, the former Falkirk & Grahamston centre-half in the St Paul Daily Globe [24/5/1894]. The drawing is of him playing "McStuart, traitorous scot" in Rob...
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In History revisionism has a bad name, as if the crusty Victorians were right and anyone with new ideas were wrong. However, luckily football history never really started until the 1920s so we do not...
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Alex Turnbull: Falkirk Goalkeeper
Alex Turnbull was one of Falkirk FC's first serious goalkeepers: to go further on this is difficult, he [of course] was not a professional, but the goalkeepers before him seem to have been slightly...
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Robert Stalker 1904/05
Continuing my informal series on former Falkirk players who ended up on the other side of the Atlantic I bring what little I know about Robert J. Stalker, a man of several clubs but comparatively few...
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Daniel Daye: The Falkirk player who seems not to exist.
What's in a name? Throughout his time at Falkirk one player was listed as Daye, Day, Daze and Dey. His name was mostly written as Daniel Daye though, and that is how I call him. But the simple fact is...
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James Richardson - WWI in Ruhleben
I have spent some time trying to find the details of all the Falkirk FC players who served in the Great War, it is not always easy because most of the files were destroyed in 1940 during the blitz....
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William Sanderson
I recently found his obituary. [NB - I only found it because I had found his middle name elsewhere]William Gaff Sanderson b 8th June 1861, Polmont, Stirlingshire d 19th June 1937, Falkirk,...
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Falkirk Footballers v Grangemouth Footballers 1879
I cannot be 100% sure, but I think I may have found the first occasion in which Falkirk FC took part in a sporting occasion outside of football. The following cutting was in the Falkirk Herald of Thur...
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Pen Pic - Robert Orrock - East Stirlingshire FC
I just found a picture of Robert Orrock at the start of his senior career, he joined East Stirlingshire at the beginning of the 1906/07 season, and would go on and on and on and on.Soon after this...
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Pen Pic - Clyde Skene - Falkirk FC - 1907
Since I recently came across a series on "Prominent Falkirk and District Football Players" published in 1907 I might as well continue to share them for the World's edification ;/Today we have the...
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Pen Pic - Thomas Baird - East Sirlingshire - 1907
Yet another in the series of Pen Pics of Prominent Falkirk and District Football Players. This one, Thomas Baird is a rarity, in that he is one of few footballers that played for all three Scottish...
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Pen Pic - John Morrison - Falkirk FC - 1907
John Morrison is the next in this series of prominent players from 1907, and I have to say he is one of my pet favourite players in the history of Falkirk FC. Although he would be special because [as...
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Pen Pic - John Simpson - Falkirk FC - 1907
This the legend that was Jock Simpson in 1907.Nothing more need be said.
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Pen Pic - James Reid - Falkirk FC - 1907
This post from the prominent footballers series is that of James 'Punkie' Reid. Another local lad who Falkirk pinched from East Stirlingshire twice. Although starting his career at Inside-Right, in his...
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