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Smithstone Hibs F.C.
Smithstone Hibs F.C. was a football club from Kilsyth in Scotland.
The club was sometimes known as Smithstone Hibernian, but the name as officially given was the short form Smithstone Hibs. The town name was also sometimes rendered as Smithston. The first recorded matches for the club came in the Kilsyth Charity Cup in 1889.
In the competition, the Hibs beat Denny 1–0 in a replay in the quarter-final, but the tie had repercussions for the club. The Hibs refused to pay Denny its share of the gate money, and, although the Hibs joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1889, it was expelled within a month for not paying over the amount outstanding to Denny. Only after Hibs officials attended the Denny v Grasshoppers match on 19 October to hand over the cash was the club re-instated.
The Hibs had already been knocked out of the 1889–90 Scottish Cup, losing 5–0 at Duntocher Harp, and the ban prevented the club from entering any of the county cups - curiously, although the other clubs in Kilsyth pledged themselves to the Stirlingshire Association, Smithstone looked to Dumbartonshire.
Nevertheless, the club finished the 1889–90 season on a high note, as it won the Kilsyth Charity Cup, beating Kilsyth Wanderers in the final, and the players earned themselves gold badges.
The club entered the 1890–91 Scottish Cup, and was drawn at home to Dumbarton in the first round, but the club's new Haugh Park ground was not yet ready, so the club had to play at Boghead; despite coming from 3–0 to 3–2 down in the first half, Dumbarton wound up 8–2 winners.
Perhaps because of this lack of ground, the club did not enter the Dumbartonshire Cup. The club did enter the county competition in 1891–92, and survived a protest from Clydebank after beating the Bankies on the ground of Smithstone Emmett - whom the Hibs claimed was their third XI, so therefore on a ground which qualified as "private" - who complained about the Hibs being late and the pitch being obscured by smoke from a passing steam train; the referee's evidence as to the late team being the Clydebank saw the protest routinely dismissed.
The club reached the semi-final of the competition both in that season and in 1892–93, narrowly losing to Vale of Leven - experimenting with three new players - in the former year, and 4–2 against Levendale in the latter, the club finishing the match with 10 men after one of the backs was ordered off while the scores were level.
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Smithstone Hibs F.C.
Smithstone Hibs F.C. was a football club from Kilsyth in Scotland.
The club was sometimes known as Smithstone Hibernian, but the name as officially given was the short form Smithstone Hibs. The town name was also sometimes rendered as Smithston. The first recorded matches for the club came in the Kilsyth Charity Cup in 1889.
In the competition, the Hibs beat Denny 1–0 in a replay in the quarter-final, but the tie had repercussions for the club. The Hibs refused to pay Denny its share of the gate money, and, although the Hibs joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1889, it was expelled within a month for not paying over the amount outstanding to Denny. Only after Hibs officials attended the Denny v Grasshoppers match on 19 October to hand over the cash was the club re-instated.
The Hibs had already been knocked out of the 1889–90 Scottish Cup, losing 5–0 at Duntocher Harp, and the ban prevented the club from entering any of the county cups - curiously, although the other clubs in Kilsyth pledged themselves to the Stirlingshire Association, Smithstone looked to Dumbartonshire.
Nevertheless, the club finished the 1889–90 season on a high note, as it won the Kilsyth Charity Cup, beating Kilsyth Wanderers in the final, and the players earned themselves gold badges.
The club entered the 1890–91 Scottish Cup, and was drawn at home to Dumbarton in the first round, but the club's new Haugh Park ground was not yet ready, so the club had to play at Boghead; despite coming from 3–0 to 3–2 down in the first half, Dumbarton wound up 8–2 winners.
Perhaps because of this lack of ground, the club did not enter the Dumbartonshire Cup. The club did enter the county competition in 1891–92, and survived a protest from Clydebank after beating the Bankies on the ground of Smithstone Emmett - whom the Hibs claimed was their third XI, so therefore on a ground which qualified as "private" - who complained about the Hibs being late and the pitch being obscured by smoke from a passing steam train; the referee's evidence as to the late team being the Clydebank saw the protest routinely dismissed.
The club reached the semi-final of the competition both in that season and in 1892–93, narrowly losing to Vale of Leven - experimenting with three new players - in the former year, and 4–2 against Levendale in the latter, the club finishing the match with 10 men after one of the backs was ordered off while the scores were level.