association football
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club from
Carfin
Carfin (Scottish Gaelic: ''An Càrn Fionn'', meaning the White Cairn) is a village situated to the north-east of Motherwell, Scotland. Most local amenities are shared with the adjacent villages of Holytown, Newarthill and New Stevenston which ...
in
Lanarkshire
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, active in the late 19th century.
History
The club was formed in 1897, "from the ashes" of the Carfin Shamrock club. The media often referred to the club more simply as Carfin.
Rovers joined the
Scottish Football Association
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that August, Its side for its first
Scottish Qualifying Cup
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tie in 1897–98, at home to
Albion Rovers
Albion Rovers Football Club is a semi-professional football team from Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. They play in the , the fifth tier of the Scottish football league system.
Founded in October 1882, the club joined the Scottish Foot ...
, contained Hughie Clifford and William Mason, both of whom had been players at Shamrock, plus Thomas and Galloway, formerly of
Motherwell
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. A good-tempered match ended 1–0 to the visitors.
Rovers bounced back from the defeat with its biggest competitive win - 13–0 in the
Lanarkshire Cup
The Lanarkshire Cup was an annual competition open to football teams in the Lanarkshire area. The competition is now defunct. The Lanarkshire FA was dissolved in June 1999 when it was merged with the Ayrshire and Renfrewshire FAs to form the Wes ...
, against Airdriehill - which put the club into the semi-final, against Motherwell, but the Steelmen had an easy time of it, winning 6–1.
Rovers only had one more season in senior football, and beat
Uddingston
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in the second round in the Qualifying Cup (after walking over a "non est"
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), but lost at Renton in the third, when a win would have put the club into the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,East Lanarkshire in its first round Lanarkshire Cup tie, the blame in part being put on a decision to go to Harthill by brake in windy conditions, which left the team not only unfit, but at a disadvantage in gauging the effect of the wind on an exposed and unfamiliar ground. The E.L. repeated the result when the clubs met in the Consolation Cup.
The club was also one of the five which formed part of the Lanarkshire Football Second League, scheduled for the latter half of the 1898–99 season, but which does not seem to have completed.
The club died as the result of a breakaway; perhaps notably, the club had changed secretary the previous season amid some rancour. The new club, Carfin Emmet, claimed it had the right to use Beechgrove Park. Rovers' last action was scratching to
Albion Rovers
Albion Rovers Football Club is a semi-professional football team from Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. They play in the , the fifth tier of the Scottish football league system.
Founded in October 1882, the club joined the Scottish Foot ...
in the first round of the 1899–1900 Qualifying Cup, by which time the club existed "in name only"; the club secretary tried to claim that Emmet had inherited Rovers' debts, but after the Scottish FA investigated the matter and ruled the clubs were separate entities, the Carfin secretary's letter was "relegated to the waste paper basket without being read".
Colours
The club wore white jerseys and blue knickers in its first season, and black afterwards.
Ground
The club played at Beechgrove Park, which was "not by any means an ideal one", with a small and narrow playing area.
Nickname
The club's nickname of the Dandy Dandy came from the Dandy Rows, streets of miners' cottages in the village. The club was also known as the Double Back Row for the same reason.
Notable players
* Hughie Clifford, later of
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* William "Cosh" Mason, who had played for
Nottingham Forest
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