football
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team from
Lennoxtown
Lennoxtown ( gd, Baile na Leamhnachd, ) is a town in East Dunbartonshire council area and the historic county of Stirlingshire, Scotland at the foot of the Campsie Fells, which are just to the north. The town had a population of 4,094 at the 201 ...
,
Stirlingshire
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, which once reached the quarter-finals of the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,parish of Campsie. The club has subsequently been referred to as Campsie Central.
It first entered the Scottish Cup in 1880–81 and had its best run, reaching the quarter-finals; indeed that season saw the club's only match wins in the competition. In the second round the club beat local rivals
Milton of Campsie
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in a replay, in front of 600 spectators. The club received a bye in the fifth round, as the regional nature of the competition made some of the divisions slightly lop-sided; the sixth round - effectively the quarter-finals - had 6 clubs in it. The Central was drawn at home to eventual competition winners Queen's Park, the match being played on Christmas Day, and Campsie was outmatched from the start, eventually losing 10–1.
The following season the club was drawn to play the Bonnybridge Grasshoppers, but the club withdrew, unable to form an XI.
The Central did not enter the Scottish Cup in 1882–83 or 1883–84, but did so again in 1884–85. The club received a bye into the second round, but was hammered 14–0 by
Vale of Leven
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, conceding seven goals in each half, but by the end of the season it was back to being one of the stronger clubs in Stirlingshire, with centre-forward Dempsey being chosen for the county representative side.
The club's last tie in the Scottish Cup was in 1885–86, losing 4–2 at
Dunipace
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, despite taking a two-goal lead in the first ten minutes. The club however had its best run in the
Stirlingshire Cup
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, reaching the semi-finals after beating Laurieston 4–0 away in the first round, getting a bye in the second, and beating Comely Park 5–2 in a third round replay. The run came to an end at home to King's Park; the difficulties for the Lennoxtown club shown by the match receipts being 3d 2
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short of £1, the match being delayed because one of its players had not turned up, then the first match ball bursting "and no wonder, seeing the sort of ball it was" after half-an-hour; the club had one other ball available, which it used in its practice matches, and that too burst with seven minutes to go. There was no replacement, but, as the visitors were 4–1 up, the result was allowed to stand. Central did protest as to the state of the pitch, half-covered in snow and half-covered in meltwater, but the protest was not upheld, on the basis that it was the club's own pitch and it had telegrammed to say the match could proceed.
Despite this comparative local success, the club did not emerge for the 1886–87 season, presumably because of a lack of finances, and its players joined
Campsie F.C.
Campsie Football Club was a Scotland, Scottish association football club based in the village of Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire.
History
The club was founded in 1883, with the club's initial honorary and match secretaries living in Crosshill Terra ...
from
Milton of Campsie
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Names
* Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname)
** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet
* Milton (given name)
** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free ...
instead.
Colours
The club originally played in blue and white, but on its revival wore white shirts, blue knickers, and red hose.
Ground
The club originally played at Slatefield Park, at Balcurroch, in Lennoxtown. The facilities were basic and lacked the by-now customary pavilion, so visiting teams had to change in a nearby pub.