On 3 September 1887, Arbroath were drawn in the same competition against Orion football club – the team that should have been invited to the Scottish Cup match in 1885 instead of the Orion cricket club.

* Scotland, the Scottish cricket team

Category: Scottish club cricket teams

The area of Aberdeen has sports facilities including the local junior football team Dyce F. C who currently play in the Scottish Junior Football Association North Region and the cricket team.

Also a cricketer, Goram represented the Scottish cricket team four times: twice ( 1989 and 1991 ) in the annual first-class game against Ireland and twice ( again in 1989 and 1991 ) in the NatWest Trophy.

Goram played for Penicuik Cricket Club, Kelso Cricket Club, West Lothian County and Uddingston CC in Scottish cricket leagues.

* David Bell ( sportsman ) ( born 1949 ), Scottish rugby union and cricket representative

In 2003, the Scottish team was granted a place in the English national one day cricket league in the hope that playing against professional cricketers on a regular basis would improve the performance level of the best Scottish cricketers.

The governing body for Scottish cricket is Cricket Scotland, which administers women's cricket and junior cricket as well as the men's game.

Cricketers who have played for the Scotland national cricket team but are not Scottish.

Pollock's nephew, Shaun Pollock | Shaun, played 108 Tests Pollock's Scottish immigrant father Andrew Pollock played cricket for Orange Free State, while his brother, Peter Pollock, was a leading fast bowler who played 28 Test matches for South Africa.

Scottish cricket is a minority game.

Sutcliffe played cricket during the war for the Officer Cadet Battalion in Scotland, captaining his team in matches against Glasgow University and other Scottish teams.

A capacity crowd of 4, 500 was at The Grange in Edinburgh to watch the local heroes of the Scottish cricket team face off with the world's highest ranked team, Australia.

* William Lovat Fraser ( 1884 – 1968 ), Scottish sportsman who played both cricket and rugby union at an international level

* List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

A side managed by Oxford University — supposedly the England rugby team, but actually including three Scottish players — toured Argentina at the time: the people of Argentina termed it the " Combined British ".

* Edinburgh Capitals, a Scottish ice-hockey team

The Scottish national team has occasionally played at Easter Road and Tynecastle.

Murrayfield | Murrayfield Stadium, home to the Scottish national rugby union team

The Scotland national rugby union team plays at Murrayfield Stadium, which is owned by the Scottish Rugby Union and is also used as a venue for other events, including music concerts.

The club play their home games at the Murrayfield Ice Rink and compete in the ten team professional Elite Ice Hockey League along with three other Scottish teams which are the Fife Flyers, Braehead Clan and the Dundee Stars.

The town also has a football team, Fort William F. C., competing in the Scottish Highland Football League.

He won the Scottish Cup playing for Glasgow Schoolboys and Glasgow Schools, and was then selected for the Scottish schoolboys team that went undefeated in a home nations Victory Shield tournament.

By the following year Dalglish was a full professional and a regular member of the highly-rated Celtic reserve team that became known as the Quality Street Gang, due to its having a large number of future Scottish internationals, including Danny McGrain, George Connelly, Lou Macari, and David Hay.

) was a Scottish footballer who played for the Scotland national football team in both the 1954 and 1958 FIFA World Cups.

In May 2007 Al-Fayed said he was interested in helping Scottish football team Ross County, following their relegation.

Ashley Cowie, Scottish author, historian, and archaeologist, and his team search the U. K. for treasures said to have been hidden away by Merlin in the 5th episode of season 1's " Legend Quest ".

* 1950 – Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and team owner ( d. 2010 )

* The Rocks or the Scottish Rocks, a basketball team

* Jimmy Murray ( footballer born 1933 ), Scottish footballer who played for Heart of Midlothian and the Scotland national team

The senior football team, Stirling Albion, play in the Scottish Football League Second Division at their home ground of the Doubletree Dunblane Stadium.

Rangers reached the semi-finals of the European Cup in 1960, losing to German club Eintracht Frankfurt by a record aggregate 12 – 4 for a Scottish team.

Included within this period, a 1 – 1 draw with Inter Milan took Rangers into the last 16 of the Champions League, the first Scottish team to achieve the feat since 1993, the club eventually exiting on the away goals rule to Villarreal.

* Dundee HSFP, Scottish rugby union team

Currently, the bottom team is relegated to the First Division of the Scottish Football League, and the top team from there is promoted.

Ultimately the inaugural CWC was contested by just 10 clubs ( with Fiorentina of Italy winning the two-legged final against the Scottish team Rangers F. C.

More than 250 Scottish Rite Masons and guests gathered in their House of the Temple to pay tribute to their most prominent leader, Albert Pike, who headed the Scottish Rite from 1859 to 1891.

C. Wheeler Barnes of Denver, head of the Scottish Rite in Colorado, praised Pike as a historian, author, poet, journalist, lawyer, jurist, soldier and musician, who devoted most of his mature years to the strengthening of the Masonic Order.

His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

An additional problem was competition in the Liberal heartlands in Scotland and Wales from the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru who both grew as electoral forces from the 1960s onwards.

In Scottish mythology the creature is called the bean sìth or bean-nighe and is seen washing the blood stained clothes or armour of those who are about to die.

Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

Warned of the coming invasion by Isabella, Wallace implores the Scottish nobility, who are more concerned with their own welfare, that immediate action is needed to counter the threat and to take back the country.

As significant as he is to the plot, he has fewer lines than the relatively insignificant Ross, a Scottish nobleman who survives the play.

In reality, the terms ' Scots / Scottish ' and ' Irish ' are purely modern geographical references to a people who share a common Celtic ancestry and consequently, a common musical heritage.

It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

As of 2011, Canadians who are of Scottish ancestry are the third largest ethnic group in the country and thus Columba's name is to be found attached to Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian parishes.

A court case followed in January 1905, as a result of which Archibald Leitch, a Scottish architect who had risen to prominence after his building of the Ibrox Stadium, a few years earlier, was hired to work on the stadium.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

He is the third and youngest son of portrait-painter Dominick Elwes and interior designer Tessa Georgina Kennedy, who is of Croatian, Anglo-Irish, and Scottish descent.

Scottish physician and scientist Joseph Black, who was the first to recognize the distinction between heat and temperature, is said to be the founder of calorimetry.

When the X-Men receive a distress call from a Scottish island, they are surprised to find Juggernaut with nowhere to go, as the island was destroyed by his further-mutated partner in crime, Black Tom Cassidy, who died.

The author based part of his narrative on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez.

Donaldson later described his father Robert, the son of Italian and German immigrants, as a man who " frowned on display of emotion " and his mother Lois as " an English, Scottish Texan, artistic, free-spirited, emotional, impulsive.

Donald Campbell Dewar ( 21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000 ) was a Scottish politician who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) in Scotland from 1966-1970, and then again from 1978 until his death in 2000.