Lanark F.C.
Lanark F.C. was a Scottish football team, from the town of Lanark in Lanarkshire, which played in the Scottish Football Combination, a second-rank national league. History The club was formed in 1902, under the auspices of Alex Bain, formerly of Wishaw United. The new club's first match was a 3–3 draw against Cartvale. It was the third senior club of that name; the first Lanark F.C. had played one tie in the 1880–81 Scottish Cup, and the second had had one season in 1900–01. Lanark had an unexpected chance to boost its profile when Wishaw United ran out of money towards the end of the 1902–03 season. Wishaw had played 11 out of 18 matches in the Scottish Combination, and, rather than expunging the fixtures, the Combination accepted Lanark's application to take over Wishaw's place, perhaps due to Bain's influence, despite a late application from Dykehead. It was a bold move given that Lanark had no footballing record of which to speak and the Lanark side was "practically an untrained eleven". Its first tie in the Scottish Qualifying Cup in September 1902 had been a 5–1 defeat to Motherwell, and, although it was waiting to play in the semi-final of