| Full name | Newmains Football Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | the Down-the-way Club[1] | ||
| Founded | 1876 | ||
| Dissolved | 1885 | ||
| Ground | Brown Street | ||
| Hon. secretary | Robert K. Hinshalwood | ||
| Match secretary | Thomas Russell | ||
| |||
Newmains Football Club was a 19th-centuryfootball club based inNewmains,Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The club was formed in 1876,[2] as a winter activity for the Newmains cricket club, its football captain being the cricket captain Archibald Munn.[3] It was linked to the Coltness iron works[4] and gave the works as its correspondence address.[5]
The club's first match at the end of the 1876–77 season, againstShotts, who sent a team "for the purpose of inaugurating the association game in that district".[6] The ensuing defeat did not discourage Newmains; the teams had a convivial entertainment after the match and Newmains joined theScottish Football Association three months later.[7]
The club's first competitive match was in the first round of the1877–78 Scottish Cup, losing at home toUddingston.[8] The club entered theScottish Cup twice more, but did not win a fixture. In the first round of the1878–79 Scottish Cup, the club was decimated at home byUpper Clydesdale, the final score being 12–0 and three of the Upper Clydesdale scoring hat-tricks.[9] In the1879–80 Scottish Cup, the club passed into the second round after first round opponentsAvondale dissolved before the tie;[10] in the second the club lost 2–0 atPlains Blue Bell.[11]
Newmains continued playing football over the next few years, mostly at a low-key level, but the club did beatEdina ofEdinburgh away from home in a friendly in 1882–83,[12] and entered theLanarkshire Cup for the only time in 1883–84. The 7–1 defeat atHamilton Academical[13] seems to have put the club off undertaking any more serious football activity, and in 1883 it lost two key players to emigration;[14] the club does not have any matches recorded after 1885.[15]
The club originally wore blue and white hoops.[16] In 1881, the club changed to orange and black.[17]
The club originally played on the cricket pitch[18] near Brown Street, using the local school's club house for facilities.[19] In 1879, it moved to Crindledyke Park, a quarter of a mile fromNewmains railway station.
