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association football
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club from
Greenock
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,
Renfrewshire
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.
History
The club was formed in 1907 for former pupils of Greenock High School, and has long been a stalwart of the Scottish amateur game. Its first competitive football came in the former pupils' league in 1911–12 and it was a member of the
Scottish Amateur Football League
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from before the
First World War
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until 2009–10, when it moved to the
Central Scottish Amateur Football League
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.
At amateur level, the club has had significant success, including winning the
Scottish Amateur Cup
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in 1921–22 and 1948–49, and the Amateur League in 1926–27, 1927–28, 1936–37, and 2006–07.
In August 1930, the club joined the
Scottish Football Association
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, and was therefore entitled to enter the
Scottish Qualifying Cup
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in an attempt to play in the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Paisley Academical, and in the second round it only lost 1–0 against Royal Albert, when a win would have qualified the club for the Cup itself.
It won twice more in the competition - 4–3 against Vale Ocoba in 1931–32 and against
Moorpark
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in 1934–35; in the latter year, after a second round bye, the club lost to Paisley Academical at the final qualifying stage. The club's scratching to
Babcock & Wilcox
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in 1937–38 was its last action in the competition.
The High also took part in the
Renfrewshire Cup
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from 1929–30 to 1933–34, although by this time there were only two professional clubs taking part; the club gained its finest result by holding Morton to a draw in 1930–31. Thanks to the paucity of competition, the High won the Renfrewshire Victoria Cup - a consolation cup - in 1930–31 by beating the Paisley Grammar School Former Pupils F.C. in a match stopped at 80 minutes due to bad light.
Colours
The club's traditional outfit is all royal blue, although on occasions - for instance from 2014 to 2017 and in 2021–22 - it has adopted Morton's blue and white hoops.
Ground
The club plays at Battery Park. As a senior club, it had to play home cup ties on a private ground, and used Garvel Park, the home of Port Glasgow Juniors, to do so.