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2 unusual facts about Scottish Football League


International Football League Board

The IFLB was founded in 1897 by the Football League and the Scottish Football League to resolve disputes over "poaching" of players in one League by clubs from the other.

Tennents' Sixes

The teams involved were usually from the Scottish Football League Premier Division, but occasionally guest participants from the lower divisions of the Scottish Football League were invited along with English clubs Nottingham Forest and Manchester City.


1915–16 Blackpool F.C. season

A conference was held in Blackpool's Winter Gardens on 3 July 1915, with representatives from the English, Irish, Scottish and Southern Football Leagues to consider whether football should be played in the 1915–16 season.

1920–21 Burnley F.C. season

This success was followed by a 2–1 friendly victory over a Scottish Football League XI in a benefit match for Celtic winger Patsy Gallacher.

The first, against Blackburn Rovers, marked the opening of Accrington Stanley's new stadium; the other was a benefit match for Patsy Gallacher, against a representative team from the Scottish Football League.

1931 in Scotland

5 September - Celtic goalkeeper, John Thomson, dies in hospital after fracturing his skull in a collision with Rangers forward Sam English in the 'Old Firm' League derby at Ibrox Park.

1992–93 Scottish Challenge Cup

The 1992–93 Scottish Challenge Cup was the 3rd season of the competition, which was also known as the B&Q Cup for sponsorship reasons, and was competed for by the 26 clubs in the Scottish Football League Division One and Two.

2012 in Scottish television

19 July – The Scottish Football League approaches broadcasters with a package to show up to 25 live Rangers matches during the 2012–13 season.

Airdrieonians F.C.

Airdrie are currently managed by Gary Bollan, and club chairman Jim Ballantyne also served as president of The Scottish Football League and sits on the board of The Scottish Football Association.

Frank McAvoy

He also played for Scottish Football League clubs Ayr and St. Mirren, and for Southern League clubs Brighton United, Gravesend United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Watford.

Harry Chatton

James Harold "Harry" Chatton (born 23 April 1899, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland), commonly referred to as Harry Chatton, was an Irish footballer who played for several clubs in the Scottish League, the American Soccer League and the League of Ireland.

Jim Gellatly

His late father, Ian Gellatly, was Chairman of Dundee F.C. and President of the Scottish Football League, while his grandfather was chairman of the club when they won the Scottish League Championship in 1961–62.

Lugar Boswell Thistle F.C.

Bertie Black - Scottish Football League champion with Kilmarnock in 1964–65 and Scottish League international.

Scotland national semi-professional football team

The first incarnation of the team was originally made of players from Scottish Football League clubs outside of the Premier Division.

Scottish Football Federation

In 1893 it was absorbed by the Scottish Football Alliance when that league lost all but one of its members to the Scottish Football League's new Second Division.

Steve Baines

Only one other referee had ever been promoted that quickly - former Scottish League referee Joe Timmons, in 1987.

Willie Crilley

William "Wee Willie" Crilley (born 1903 in Cowcaddens, Scotland; 1955 in New York City) was a Scottish-American football (soccer) forward who holds the record for the greatest number of goals scored by an Alloa Athletic player in a single season of the Scottish Football League.


see also

Borough Briggs

When Elgin City were elected to the Scottish Football League in 2000 they obtained 500 seats from the Geordie club when it was revamping the seated areas in its main (Milburn) stand.

East Stirlingshire F.C.

The club was excluded from a wartime league in 1939 and was also denied re-entry to the Scottish Football League Division Two at the end of World War II, along with six other small league clubs.

McKinnell

Jimmy McKinnell, Jr., secretary and manager with Scottish Football League team Queen of the South of Dumfries