Newmains F.C.

Football club

Newmains

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

Home colours

Newmains Football Club was a 19th-century football club based in Newmains, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

History

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

The club originally wore blue and white hoops.^[16] In 1881, the club changed to orange and black.^[17]

Grounds

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.

External links

Lanarkshire Cup results

References

^ "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.