football
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team located in the town of
Paisley, Renfrewshire
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History
The club was founded in 1879. It was the third senior club in Paisley to be founded, after St Mirren and
Abercorn
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The club quickly grew to be a significant size, and in its early years was competitive with the more senior clubs in the town. The club's first entry into the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1881–82, saw it take notable scalps in Port Glasgow Athletic and St Mirren; its 6–1 win over Port Glasgow being particularly noteworthy as the club played the second half with ten men. The club's run ended at
Arthurlie
Arthurlie is an area of the town of Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland.
History of Arthurlie
The lands of Arthurlie were held in medieval times by the Stewart family, a branch of the noble Stewarts of Darnley. Later the lands became the prop ...
in the third round; after taking the lead, and turning around at 1–1 at half-time, the Athletic collapsed in the second half against the more experienced club, Arthurlie scoring three in the first five minutes of the second half, and the match ending 7–1.
In 1882–83, the club won the first Paisley Charity Cup, hammering St Mirren 6–0 in the final, and was described as "the premier club in Paisley". However, by 1883–84, St Mirren and Abercorn had 200 members each, with Athletic lagging behind with 160. After its first Scottish Cup run it was permanently in the shadow of the other Paisley sides; it only won one more Scottish Cup tie (against
Kilbarchan
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in 1883–84 - Kilbarchan's protest as to the incompetence of the referee was summarily dismissed), and never got beyond the third round of the
Renfrewshire Cup
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. After the 1884–85 season it did not renew its
Scottish Football Association
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subscription.
The club was re-formed in October 1886, under the presidency of Mr Whitehill, and Thomas Hastie becoming match secretary (a post he had held from 1882) once more. The Athletic re-joined the Renfrewshire Association after the start of the season, so starting its Renfrewshire Cup campaign in the second round. The game however had moved on far beyond the Athletic - Port Glasgow Athletic beat the club 9–1 at Caledonian Park, and in 1887–88 the Athletic scratched from both national and county cup before playing its ties; it played a friendly against Port Glasgow rather than its Renfrewshire Cup tie, and lost 10–0. By 1888 the club only had 60 members and its inability to get up a team for its
1888–89 Scottish Cup
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first round tie with
Thornliebank
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meant automatic expulsion from the Scottish Football Association for a second consecutive default.
Colours
The club's colours were as follows:
*1879–82: 2" black and gold hooped jerseys and stockings, with blue (serge) knickers
*1882–83: black jerseys with a gold star on the chest, and white knickers.
*1883–88: white jerseys, blue knickers
Ground
The club's first ground was East Park, close to
Paisley railway station
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Stations with ''Paisley'' in the name
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. In 1883 it moved to Caledonia Park, near to
Paisley St James railway station
Paisley St James railway station is on the Inverclyde Line, serving one of the residential districts of the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire
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. The ground was on Mackean Street and became the home of the
Junior
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Robert Calderwood
Robert Calderwood (4 October 1862 – 13 May 1939) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside left or centre forward for Cartvale (1878 club), Cowlairs, Bootle, Newcastle West End, Thistle, Cartvale (1892 club) and Scotland.
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, forward, played for the club in the 1882–83 season
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Jock Cameron
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