was re-organized under the Royal Scots Fusiliers in July 1881[2] and the football side seems to have emerged as a result of a larger pool of players, with 50 from which to choose.

[6] The club did not enter the Churchill Cup for local sides, and seems to have given up the game, not renewing its Scottish FA membership at the end of the season.

[42] After playing five matches in its first season - with a record of 2 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats, scoring 4 goals and conceding 9 - it joined the Scottish Football Association in 1881.

[77] It entered the 1878–79 Scottish Cup and was the lucky club in the Glasgow section to receive a bye into the second round, where it was drawn to visit Alexandra Athletic; the A.A.C.

Its 1891–92 Scottish Cup first preliminary round tie at Dalry was abortive as the official referee did not turn up, so the clubs played out a friendly, which the Thistle won 4–3.

[133] In August 1884, having won 16 of 22 matches the previous season, and with the club in a "highly prosperous condition",[134] it joined the Scottish Football Association.

In the first round, the club came close to pulling off a shock, holding Hamilton Academical to a 1–1 draw away from home,[138] and tried unsuccessfully to claim the tie via protest.

[171] The only other competitive match the club played was in the Churchill Cup for southern counties sides in November, a 7–1 defeat against Dumfries, with left-wing M'Kinnon scoring the Harp goal when two down.

[180] At the end of the season, the club was struck off the Scottish FA roll, along with neighbours Oban Rangers and the 1st Argyll Rifle Volunteers, the difficulties in keeping up senior football with few fixtures in a remote area proving too great.

In the first round of the 1886–87 Scottish Cup, when, with the club 8–0 down to Dumbarton Athletic, and the rain teeming down, the Duntocher players walked off and abandoned the game.

In January 1885, the club entered the North-Eastern Cup (alongside Eastern Athletic),[209] In the first round it beat Tollcross 5–2,[210] but lost narrowly to the well-established Northern 1–0 in the second.

[259] The Fort William club however was formed in summer 1883 by young lads who wanted "to promote a healthy and manly amusement for themselves", and the earliest reference to a match is a defeat in May 1884 to a scratch team of Mr C.

The club continued its activities on a low-key level until at least 1913, playing over the summer rather than a traditional winter season,[262] but it does not seem to have re-emerged after the First World War.

[273] The club's first match was against fellow Fraserburgh side Hawthorn, which ended contentiously as the Wanderers walked off when the referee refused to allow what would have been an equalizing goal.

[279] The club also took part in the Aberdeenshire Cup from 1892–93 to 1904–05, but found the standard far higher, either losing by big margins every time it played, or scratching from its remaining entries.

Despite this dispiriting record at county level, the club entered the Scottish Cup in 1893–94, being drawn at Aberdeen in the first preliminary round.

[294] The club was the subject of some notoriety when one of its members, John William Brown, a painter of North Queensbury Street, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment after drunkenly assaulting a woman and stealing 4s from her.

[305] As a senior club, it claimed a membership of 150, which, although well behind the Edinburgh behemoths of Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian, should have made it close to St Bernard's.

Before the season could get properly underway, Glasgow Hibernian took away Duffy, and the Acas took away M'Queen;[340] by the end of August the Hibs were struck off the Scottish FA roll for non-payment of subscription,[341] and the club disappeared.

[369] The club lasted to the start of the 1883–84 season, entering a four-a-side tournament in August 1883 hosted by Hamilton Academical,[370] although it did not renew its subscription to the Scottish FA,[371] and seems to have disbanded soon afterwards.

[425] The club had the benefit of a "handsome donation" from Sir Windham Carmichael-Anstruther, 8th Baronet in December 1879,[426] and it joined the Scottish Football Association in 1880, after a season of even form (6 wins, 6 draws, and 3 defeats).

[435][436] The club, from Lochmaben village in Dumfriesshire, was founded in 1881, and joined the Scottish Football Association in 1882, having won 3 and lost 4 of its first season's matches.

Oakfield was earlier than most, founded in 1877, and playing its first match in October that year, albeit fielding 13 players against 11 of the East End club of Greenock.

[499] In the second half of the season, the club entered the Glasgow North Eastern Cup for the only time,[500] gaining a creditable 2–2 draw with Northern before the campaign got under way.

[505] However, with the north-east football landscape being increasingly dominated by Cowlairs and Northern, the club was struck off the Scottish FA roll in August 1885, along with neighbours Springburn and Petershill.

[526] Waverley entered the 1877–78 Scottish Cup, and lost 4–0 at Dumbarton in the first round, only threatening the home side's goal twice, and demonstrating that they had "much to learn in the way of passing and backing up".

[538] At the end of the season, it made its debut in the first Paisley Charity Cup, and beat another senior side, Woodside, with whom the West-End had developed a keen rivalry, 4–1.

In the first round, the Athletics visited Busby to play Cartvale, were 3–0 down at half-time, and, despite having wind and slope in their favour for the second half, finished up losing 8–0.

[555] As Thistle was the nominal home club, it had to make the arrangements, and hired a ground in Golspie; however, the night before the match, Rovers scratched.

[559] The club's demise was hastened by a weather disaster; the costs of staging a Highland Games event in August 1893 could not be recouped after heavy rains reduced crowds.