Clippens F.C.
former association football club in Scotland
Clippens Football Club was a Scottish football team from the town of Linwood, Renfrewshire.
History
The club was founded in 1882. It played five matches in its first half-season with 1 win, 3 draws, and 1 defeat. Indeed, the club finished the half-season by winning the Johnstone & District Cup, beating Kilbarchan 3–2 in the final.
Clippens therefore took the step of joining the Scottish Football Association in August, entering both the Scottish Cup and the Renfrewshire Cup in 1882–83. It lost in the first round in both - 3–2 to Glenpatrick in the former and 6–1 to Kilbarchan in the latter.
The club won in the Scottish Cup for the first time in 1883–84, with a 3–2 win over Johnstone Athletic in round 1, and survived a protest about players wearing "tacketed" boots (i.e. with nails in the soles), but lost 5–0 in the second round at Olympic of Greenock. Johnstone Athletic gained revenge in the Renfrewshire Cup second round, beating Clippens 4–0 in a "somewhat rough" tie.
Before the 1884–85 season, Clippens took over the Linwood club, making Clippens a "much stronger combination", first seen to good effect with a win over Greenock Rovers in the first round of the Scottish Cup; the score was 3–1, with two more goal disputed.
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