Scottish
Football Union
1906-1915
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In 1905 the Scottish
Alliance was re-formed but this only lasted for one season as in 1906, most
of its members joined with a number of Scottish Combination clubs to form a
new league, the Scottish Union. The original members were Alloa, Bathgate,
Bo'ness, Broxburn, Heart of Midlothian 'A', Kilmarnock 'A', King's Park,
Rangers 'A', Renton, Royal Albert, St Mirren 'A' and Stenhousemuir. Renton
failed to fulfil all their fixtures and ended the seaon with seven games
unplayed. Rangers 'A' were declared the first champions when Bathgate
declared that they were unwilling to contest a play-off after finishing level
with the Glasgow club. During 1907-08,
Stenhousemuir resigned after six matches, all lost, because of ground
difficulties. The Union committee wouldn't allow them to play all their games
away, so Wishaw Thistle took over the rest of their fixture list. At its outset, the
Union was regarded as the strongest of the non-League competitions and its membership
was spread along the Central belt from Ayrshire to Edinburgh. However there
was a regular turnover of clubs during the its existence which diminished its
status somewhat and by the time Dumbarton Harp left for the Scottish Reserve
League in 1912, it was seen as a step up for them. During the league's final
seasons, the membership's centre of gravity had shifted south and west and by
the onset of the First World War only Peebles Rovers came from the Eastern
half of the country. The Union's last
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Champions 1906-07
Rangers 'A' 1907-08
Bathgate 1908-09
1909-10
Dumbarton Harp 1910-11
Peebles Rovers 1911-12
Galston 1912-13
Dykehead 1913-14
Queen's Park Victoria XI 1914-15 unfinished |
Membership
Alloa
Athletic Armadale Bathgate Beith Bo'ness Broxburn Dumbarton
Harp Dykehead Galston Heart
of Hurlford Johnstone King's
Park Nithsdale
Wanderers Peebles
Rovers Port
Queen's
Park Victoria XI Rangers
'A' Royal
Albert St
Mirren 'A' Scottish
Amateurs Stenhousemuir West
Calder Swifts Wishaw
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Seasons
1906-09 1910-11 1906-09 1909-10 1912-15 1906-08 1906-11 1908-12 1909-15 1907-09 1909-13 1906-07 1912-15 1908-12 1906-09 1906-09 1912-14 1909-15 1911-12 1911-15 1906-08 1906-15 1906-15 1906-09 1913-15 1906-08 1910-11 1907-10 1911-15 |
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1906-07 |
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Rangers ‘A’
Alloa
Athletic Bathgate Bo’ness Heart
of St
Mirren ‘A’ Royal
Albert Stenhousemuir King’s
Park Broxburn |
21 22 20 22 22 22 22 22 22 21 16 20 |
14 12 12 11 9 8 6 8 6 6 4 4 |
3 6 5 6 5 4 7 3 5 3 4 1 |
4 4 3 5 8 10 9 11 11 12 8 15 |
54 45 39 38 38 41 42 38 37 24 20 27 |
21 33 19 30 27 39 43 44 44 44 28 73 |
31 30 29 28 23 20 19 19 17 15 12 9 |
Unplayed games
Renton v Bathgate
Renton v Broxburn
Renton v King’s Park
Renton v Rangers ‘A’
Bathgate v Renton
Broxburn v Renton
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1907-08 |
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Bathgate
Falkirk
‘A’ St Mirren ‘A’ Rangers
‘A’ Alloa
Athletic Broxburn Kilmarnock
‘A’ King’s
Park Bo’ness |
21 22 20 21 18 21 20 21 22 20 20 16 |
14 13 12 12 9 9 8 8 7 6 5 5 |
2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 4 4 0 |
5 8 6 7 7 10 10 11 12 10 11 11 |
37 54 57 50 41 34 44 29 30 25 25 34 |
22 33 28 36 28 46 52 50 49 35 47 32 |
30 27 26 26 20 20 18 18 17 16 14 10 |
Stenhousemuir
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Falkirk ‘A’
Johnstone Wishaw
Thistle Bathgate Kilmarnock
‘A’ Renton Alloa Athletic Dumbarton
Harp Royal
Albert Broxburn King’s
Park |
21 19 21 20 21 20 17 18 19 22 19 19 |
17 11 12 12 11 10 8 9 5 4 4 1 |
2 5 2 2 3 4 3 1 1 3 1 1 |
2 3 7 6 7 6 6 8 13 15 14 17 |
61 40 54 36 49 50 36 35 29 27 25 18 |
19 18 31 21 36 26 29 37 60 60 62 66 |
36 27 26 26 25 24 19 19 11 11 9 3 |
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Broxburn Dumbarton
Harp Dykehead Galston Johnstone Peebles
Rovers Royal Albert Wishaw Thistle |
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Armadale Broxburn Dumbarton
Harp Dykehead Galston Johnstone Royal Albert West Calder Swifts |
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Galston
Dumbarton
Harp Dykehead Johnstone Peebles
Rovers Port
Queen’s
Park Victoria XI Royal Albert Wishaw Thistle |
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Dykehead
Beith Galston Hurlford Nithsdale
Wanderers Peebles
Rovers Queen’s
Park Victoria XI Royal Albert Wishaw Thistle |
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Queen’s
Park Victoria XI
Beith Dykehead Hurlford Nithsdale
Wanderers Peebles
Rovers Royal Albert Scottish
Amateurs Wishaw Thistle |
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1914-15 unfinished |
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Beith Dykehead Hurlford Peebles
Rovers Queen’s
Park Victoria XI Royal Albert Scottish
Amateurs Wishaw Thistle |
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