Strathmore Football Club, usually referred to as Strathmore (Arbroath) to distinguish from Dundee Strathmore, was a

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club based in the town of

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History

The club was founded in 1879 and joined the

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in August 1883, playing in the

Scottish Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1885–86, reaching the fourth round, made up that season of 19 clubs. In the fourth round, the club put up a struggle at

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, equalizing an early Abercorn goal and having another disallowed; at half-time, the Strathie was still in the game, at 2–1 down, but Abercorn scored another five goals before Strathmore concluded the scoring with a late consolation. The club's biggest competitive win came in its first tie in the first

Forfarshire Cup The Forfarshire Cup is a football competition in Scotland competed for by teams in the Forfarshire Football Association from Angus, Dundee and Perth. The name of the competition is often baffling to some, as "Forfarshire" is an archaic and angli ...

in 1883, beating the Clydesdale (Dundee) club 13–0. In the 1884–85 edition of the Forfarshire Cup, the club reached the final, against

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. The original match, at Rollo's Pier, the home of the Strathmore (Dundee) club, saw the Arbroath side take two goal lead early on, but visibly tired and was lucky to hang on to a draw. The replay at the same venue, like the original match, attracted a crowd of 8,000. Strathmore was unlucky to lose the toss, and had to play in the first half into a wind and with the sun shining in the goalkeeper's face, but even those factors could not explain going in at half-time 8–0 down. The match ended 15–1. In reality, the club had never been much more than a "feeder" club to

, and its last Scottish Cup tie was a 13–1 defeat to

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at Damley Park in 1887, before a "rather small attendance", the result "being a foregone conclusion"; the final recorded match for the club was a 6–2 defeat at Montrose in March 1888. The club was formally struck from the Scottish FA register in August 1888, although there was a one-off resuscitation of the name for a defeat at

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in April 1889.

Colours

From 1880 to 1884, the club wore navy blue shirts and white shorts, and reversed the colours from 1884 to 1886. In 1886, the club changed to black and gold striped shirts with navy blue shorts.

Ground

The club originally played on the Low Common in Arbroath. From 1883 the club played at Damley Park.

Notable players

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played for the club before joining

External links

Scottish Cup results

References

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