Avondale F.C. (1884)
Avondale Football Club was a football team from Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire. History The club was formed in 1884. It became the third senior club to set up in Lennoxtown, after Central and Campsie. Avondale joined the Scottish Football Association a year later, having won 6 of 15 matches in its first season. It entered the Scottish Cup in 1885–86 and 1886–87, losing in the first round both times. In the former year it was unlucky to be drawn away to the much larger King's Park, but only lost 3–1, having led at half-time, after the K.P. goalkeeper Jimmy Angus misjudged a long shot "which could have been kept out by an infant", "much to the amusement of the onlookers, and the chagrin of the big 'un". The second half however was a different story, Angus able to don an overcoat in the inclement weather; the crowd was around 200, including a "solitary female who bravely faced the elements". In the latter, the club lost 4–3 at Slamannan. The club had a little more success in local competition. Its first tie in the Stirlingshire Cup, in 1884–85, was against Tayavalla and Avondale won 6–3. Tayavalla successfully protested on the basis the referee