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club which existed from 1880 to 1891, in the town of
Maybole
Maybole (, ) is a town and former burgh of barony and police burgh in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It had an estimated population of in . It is situated south of Ayr and southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The town is ...
,
Ayrshire
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, Scotland.
History
The club was formed in 1880 and instantly entered the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,Maybole Carrick, which had become a
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club. Maybole entered the competition every year until 1891–92, twice reaching the third round.
Maybole was drawn to play Rankinston Mountaineers in the first round in its first three entries. In the
1880–81 Scottish Cup
The 1880–81 Scottish Cup – officially the Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup – was the eighth season of Scotland's most prestigious Association football, football knockout competition. Defending champions Queen's Park F.C., Queen's ...
, Maybole apparently lost, but protested successfully against the lack of ropes and the Mountaineers' rough play, and the Scottish FA ordered a replay with a neutral referee. The replay took place at Springvale Park, the home of Ayr F.C., and Maybole scored a "decisive" 3–1 victory. In 1881–82 Maybole won 7–0, with goals scored by Houston (2), Crawford (2), Kinney, Macdonald, and Rodger; the score was the record win for the club. In 1882–83, Rankinston scratched.
The club's
Ayrshire Cup
The Ayrshire Cup was an annual association football regional competition in Scotland. The cup competition was a knockout tournament between football clubs in the historic county of Ayrshire. The Ayrshire Cup was first held in 1877–78, the tr ...
defeat by Ayr F.C. in the first round in 1884–85 led to a curious sequel. The Ayrshire Post criticized the Maybole fans as being "a disgrace to the town" because of their "wild howlings". This led to a reply by one John Clydesdale, stating that the Ayr fans were "the most unruly in the county", but after a rejoinder from 'a native of Maybole' that the Maybole fans were an "unruly crowd of spectators" giving forth "an unearthly yell...which continued more or less to the end of the game. I forbear even to hint of the language they used to the Ayr players", and accusing him of being the "worse of drink" spectator who "took off his coat and hat and went over the ropes to help Maybole", John Clydesdale wrote back to say that the letter purporting to be from him was a forgery.
The club's last entry to the Scottish Cup, in 1891–92, was after the introduction of qualifying rounds. In the first qualifying round, the club was drawn to play
Mauchline
Mauchline (; ) is a town and civil parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland. In the 2001 census Mauchline had a recorded population of 4,105. It is home to the National Burns Memorial.
Location
The town lies by the Glasgow and South Western Railway ...
, but withdrew, and the last recorded match for the club was a 9–0 defeat to
Kilbirnie
Kilbirnie () is a small town of 7,280 (as of 2001) inhabitants situated in the Garnock Valley area of North Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. It is around southwest of Glasgow and approximately from Paisley, Renfrewshire, Paisley and ...
in the Ayrshire Cup that season. The club did enter in 1892–93, but scratched from the competition before the first round. Senior football re-started in 1895 with the formation of a new Maybole club.
Colours
The club's colours were as follows:
*1880–86: maroon shirts, white shorts
*1886–88: black & white stripes
*1888–91: blue shirt, white shorts
Grounds
The club originally played at Myremill Holm. From the start of the 1884–85 season, the club moved to a new ground at Gardenrose Farm, immediately above the railway station.