Newmains F.C.
| Full name | Newmains Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | the Down-the-way Club[1] | |
| Founded | 1876 | |
| Dissolved | 1885 | |
| Ground | Brown Street | |
| Hon. secretary | Robert K. Hinshalwood | |
| Match secretary | Thomas Russell | |
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Newmains Football Club was a 19th-century football club based in Newmains, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
History[edit]
The club was formed in 1876,[2] as a winter activity for the Newmains cricket club, its football captain being the cricket captain Archibald Munn.[3] It was linked to the Coltness iron works[4] and gave the works as its correspondence address.[5]
The club's first match at the end of the 1876–77 season, against Shotts, who sent a team "for the purpose of inaugurating the association game in that district".[6] The ensuing defeat did not discourage Newmains; the teams had a convivial entertainment after the match and Newmains joined the Scottish Football Association three months later.[7]
The club's first competitive match was in the first round of the 1877–78 Scottish Cup, losing at home to Uddingston.[8] The club entered the Scottish Cup twice more, but did not win a fixture. In the first round of the 1878–79 Scottish Cup, the club was decimated at home by Upper Clydesdale, the final score being 12–0 and three of the Upper Clydesdale scoring hat-tricks.[9] In the 1879–80 Scottish Cup, the club passed into the second round after first round opponents Avondale dissolved before the tie;[10] in the second the club lost 2–0 at Plains Blue Bell.[11]
Newmains continued playing football over the next few years, mostly at a low-key level, but the club did beat Edina of Edinburgh away from home in a friendly in 1882–83,[12] and entered the Lanarkshire Cup for the only time in 1883–84. The 7–1 defeat at Hamilton Academical[13] seems to have put the club off undertaking any more serious football activity, and in 1883 it lost two key players to emigration;[14] the club does not have any matches recorded after 1885.[15]
Colours[edit]
The club originally wore blue and white hoops.[16] In 1881, the club changed to orange and black.[17]
Grounds[edit]
The club originally played on the cricket pitch[18] near Brown Street, using the local school's club house for facilities.[19] In 1879, it moved to Crindledyke Park, a quarter of a mile from Newmains railway station.
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References[edit]
- ^ "Football match". Wishaw Press: 2. 30 April 1881.
- ^ Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 99.
- ^ "Cricket club - presentation". Wishaw Press: 3. 16 February 1878.
- ^ "Coltness Iron Co Limited, Newmains, North Lanarkshire". Scotland's Brick and Tile Manufacturing Industry. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ Dick, William (1879). Scottish Football Annual 1879–80. Glasgow: Dunlop & Foote. p. 77.
- ^ "Shotts". Wishaw Press: 3. 26 May 1877.
- ^ "Scottish Football Association". North British Daily Mail: 4. 12 September 1877.
- ^ "District intelligence". Hamilton Advertiser: 1. 29 September 1877.
- ^ "Upper Clydesdale v Newmains". North British Daily Mail: 3. 30 September 1878.
- ^ Fleming, J. S. (1880). Scottish Association Football Annual 1880–81. Gillespie Brothers. p. 59.
- ^ Scottish FA Minutes 1879–80. Glasgow: Scottish Football Association. 21 October 1879. p. 55.
- ^ The players being G. Williamson, A. Muir, and R. Colthart; "Newmains". Wishaw Press: 2. 26 May 1883.
- ^ "Football". Glasgow Herald: 9. 15 October 1883.
- ^ "Social meeting". Hamilton Advertiser: 5. 27 October 1883.
- ^ "Club history". Hamilton Academical Memory Bank. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ Dick, William (1878). Scottish Football Annual 1878–79. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 64.
- ^ "Football - Newmains v Wishaw West-end Club". Wishaw Press: 2. 8 October 1881.
- ^ Dick, William (1878). Scottish Football Annual 1878–79. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 64.
- ^ Dick, William (1877). Scottish Football Annual 1877–78. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 99.