| Full name | Cree Rovers Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1878 | |
| Dissolved | 1881 | |
| Ground | Barn Park | |
| President and Captain | D. M'Arthur [1] | |
| Secretary | James Matthews | |
Cree Rovers F.C. was an association football club from Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland.
| Full name | Cree Rovers Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1878 | |
| Dissolved | 1881 | |
| Ground | Barn Park | |
| President and Captain | D. M'Arthur [1] | |
| Secretary | James Matthews | |
Cree Rovers F.C. was an association football club from Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Scotland.
The club was founded in January 1878, [2] and was named after the River Cree.
The Rovers entered the Scottish Cup four times, but only played in the competition twice. In 1878–79, the club had a walkover in the first round, but lost 3–0 at home to Queen of the South Wanderers in the second. [3] In 1879–80, the Rovers lost 2–0 at home to Stranraer. [4]
The club entered in both 1880–81 and 1881–82, but scratched from the 1880–81 competition, [5] and had definitely disbanded before the 1881–82 competition, [6] with most of the club members having joined the new Newton Stewart club. [7] The last recorded match for the club was against a Wigtownshire select side towards the end of the 1880–81 season. [8]
The club played in blue and red hoops with white knickerbockers and blue hose, except in its first season, in which the knickerbockers were navy. [9] [10]
The club played at Barn Park, Kirroughtree, [11] and had its club house at the Cree Hotel. [12]
Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland and is located in the western Southern Uplands. It covers the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire, the latter two of which are collectively known as Galloway. The administrative centre and largest settlement is the town of Dumfries. The second largest town is Stranraer, on the North Channel coast, some 57 miles (92 km) to the west of Dumfries.
Stranraer, also known as The Toon, is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located in the historical parish of Inch in the historic county of Wigtownshire. It lies on the shores of Loch Ryan, on the northern side of the isthmus joining the Rhins of Galloway to the mainland. Stranraer is Dumfries and Galloway's second-largest town, with a population including the immediate surrounding area of nearly 13,000 inhabitants.
Newton Stewart is a former burgh town in the historical county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. The town is on the River Cree with most of the town to the west of the river, and is sometimes referred to as the "Gateway to the Galloway Hills".
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Newton Stewart Football Club are a football club from the town of Newton Stewart in the Dumfries and Galloway area of Scotland. Formed in 1880, as Newton Stewart Athletic but after a further two name changes they became Newton Stewart Football Club in 1902. They are nicknamed the Creesiders, because the town stands on the banks of the River Cree.
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