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Quickies

Did you know …

• the earliest historical reference to “fute-ball” in Scotland was in 1424 when King James I outlawed the playing of the game in the Football Act 1424?

When was the Scottish Football Association founded?

On March 13, 1873, representatives of seven Scottish soccer teams gathered at a meeting in Glasgow in response to an advertisement in the newspaper. The purpose of the gathering was to form the Scottish Football Association. At the meeting it was resolved that, “The clubs here represented form themselves into an association for the promotion of football according to the rules of The Football Association and that the clubs connected with this association subscribe for a challenge cup to be played for annually, the committee to propose the laws of the competition.” An eighth club, Kilmarnock, did not attend the meeting, but expressed its wish to join by letter.

Founding clubs of the Scottish FA

• Queen’s Park

• Clydesdale

• Vale of Leven

• Dumbreck

• Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers