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Rob Roy F.C.
Rob Roy Football Club was a football club from Callander in Scotland.
Callander has had an ancient form of mob football, played at the Roman camp, since at least the early 19th century. The match was traditionally played on Hansel Monday, the first day of the New Year, and one Callander man, John Burns Connell, took a Hansel Monday ball to Glasgow in the 1860s to rent out for matches at Glasgow Green; Burns was later a player for the Thistle club, the Callander club made of up former Thistle players, and the Eastern F.C. club.
The first association match recorded in Callander was the 1877–78 Scottish Cup second round tie between Grasshoppers and Clifton & Strathfillan, held at the Roman Camp, and which drew a large crowd. The association club was founded in 1878, taking its name from Rob Roy MacGregor. The club's first recorded match was against the Partick Ramblers club in March that year.
In 1878–79 it entered the Scottish Cup for the first time, beating Coupar Angus after a match of "give and take" character at the North Inch in Perth. After a win over the Vale of Teith and a bye, the club lost 9–0, plus one disputed goal, to Hibernian at Powderhall in the fourth round.
The following season saw the club's best Cup run. Rob Roy again beat Coupar Angus in the first round, albeit this time because Coupar Angus was handicapped by an early collision between Macfarlane (playing for the match in goal) and "goal watcher" William Davidson, which saw the latter taken off the field and the former continuing while injured. Rob Roy went all the way to the fifth round, made up of 13 clubs, being piped to the Crown Hotel in Callander after beating Johnstone Athletic F.C. 4–2 in the fourth round; in the fifth however the club lost 12–0 at Thornliebank, who reached the competition's final, the Gregarachs unable to adapt their long-kicking style against a more 'scientific' side.
After the 1881–82 Scottish Cup, the club fell into abeyance for two years, but came back in 1883. The club had not been helped by apathy in the town, but made a comeback to senior football in 1888, by entering the Perthshire Cup, and beating Vale of Ruthven 10–0 in the first round; Rob Roy offered the Auchterarder club a choice of half of the gate or a tea supper after the match - the visitors chose the money, "and left by the first train, having no doubt got enough of Callander". In the second round the Gregarachs lost heavily against Erin Rovers.
The club was seemingly abandoned after the season, but in November 1889, the former members held a meeting, and decided to re-start the club, albeit too late to enter any competitions for the season. Rob Roy therefore entered the Perthshire Cup again from 1890 onwards; it was outclassed in most of its entries, but reached the final in 1897–98, with one of the matches being a "great surprise" 4–0 victory against St Johnstone, thanks to long ball tactics on a heavy pitch, and two breakaway goals in the second half. St Johnstone protested after the match, on the basis that four of the Rob Roy players (Lynch, Harding, and Abbot of Glasgow, and Honeyman of Dunblane) were not bona fide club members. The protest was dismissed for not having been made in advance, despite St Johnstone pointing out that it could not possibly have made a protest before knowing who the players were, and Mr M'Callum of the Alyth F.C. club supporting the protest on the basis that the tournament rules were "a conglomeration of insensible ideas".
In the final, Rob Roy faced the county town side Fair City Athletics F.C. at Recreation Park; the Perthshire FA awarded Rob Roy £3 10/ in expenses to pay for 14 train fares. Rob Roy came from 3–1 down in the original match to force a replay. For the second match, at the same venue, the Athletics changed at the Waverley Park hotel, and, en route, their brake lost a wheel and overturned, but fortunately none of the players was seriously injured, and the Athletics won 3–2.
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Rob Roy F.C.
Rob Roy Football Club was a football club from Callander in Scotland.
Callander has had an ancient form of mob football, played at the Roman camp, since at least the early 19th century. The match was traditionally played on Hansel Monday, the first day of the New Year, and one Callander man, John Burns Connell, took a Hansel Monday ball to Glasgow in the 1860s to rent out for matches at Glasgow Green; Burns was later a player for the Thistle club, the Callander club made of up former Thistle players, and the Eastern F.C. club.
The first association match recorded in Callander was the 1877–78 Scottish Cup second round tie between Grasshoppers and Clifton & Strathfillan, held at the Roman Camp, and which drew a large crowd. The association club was founded in 1878, taking its name from Rob Roy MacGregor. The club's first recorded match was against the Partick Ramblers club in March that year.
In 1878–79 it entered the Scottish Cup for the first time, beating Coupar Angus after a match of "give and take" character at the North Inch in Perth. After a win over the Vale of Teith and a bye, the club lost 9–0, plus one disputed goal, to Hibernian at Powderhall in the fourth round.
The following season saw the club's best Cup run. Rob Roy again beat Coupar Angus in the first round, albeit this time because Coupar Angus was handicapped by an early collision between Macfarlane (playing for the match in goal) and "goal watcher" William Davidson, which saw the latter taken off the field and the former continuing while injured. Rob Roy went all the way to the fifth round, made up of 13 clubs, being piped to the Crown Hotel in Callander after beating Johnstone Athletic F.C. 4–2 in the fourth round; in the fifth however the club lost 12–0 at Thornliebank, who reached the competition's final, the Gregarachs unable to adapt their long-kicking style against a more 'scientific' side.
After the 1881–82 Scottish Cup, the club fell into abeyance for two years, but came back in 1883. The club had not been helped by apathy in the town, but made a comeback to senior football in 1888, by entering the Perthshire Cup, and beating Vale of Ruthven 10–0 in the first round; Rob Roy offered the Auchterarder club a choice of half of the gate or a tea supper after the match - the visitors chose the money, "and left by the first train, having no doubt got enough of Callander". In the second round the Gregarachs lost heavily against Erin Rovers.
The club was seemingly abandoned after the season, but in November 1889, the former members held a meeting, and decided to re-start the club, albeit too late to enter any competitions for the season. Rob Roy therefore entered the Perthshire Cup again from 1890 onwards; it was outclassed in most of its entries, but reached the final in 1897–98, with one of the matches being a "great surprise" 4–0 victory against St Johnstone, thanks to long ball tactics on a heavy pitch, and two breakaway goals in the second half. St Johnstone protested after the match, on the basis that four of the Rob Roy players (Lynch, Harding, and Abbot of Glasgow, and Honeyman of Dunblane) were not bona fide club members. The protest was dismissed for not having been made in advance, despite St Johnstone pointing out that it could not possibly have made a protest before knowing who the players were, and Mr M'Callum of the Alyth F.C. club supporting the protest on the basis that the tournament rules were "a conglomeration of insensible ideas".
In the final, Rob Roy faced the county town side Fair City Athletics F.C. at Recreation Park; the Perthshire FA awarded Rob Roy £3 10/ in expenses to pay for 14 train fares. Rob Roy came from 3–1 down in the original match to force a replay. For the second match, at the same venue, the Athletics changed at the Waverley Park hotel, and, en route, their brake lost a wheel and overturned, but fortunately none of the players was seriously injured, and the Athletics won 3–2.