Third Lanark A.C.
| Full name | Third Lanark Athletic Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Thirds The Warriors The Redcoats The Hi-Hi |
| Founded | 1872, 1996 (refounded) |
| Dissolved | 1967 |
| Ground |
Cathkin Park, Glasgow New Cathkin Park, Glasgow |
| League | Greater Glasgow Premier AFL Division 3 |
Third Lanark Athletic Club was a football club that existed for 95 years between 1872 and 1967, in Glasgow, Scotland. Third Lanark was known as Thirds, the Warriors, the Redcoats and the Hi Hi. The last nickname was rumoured to have started during a match in the late 1890s, when a defender kicked the ball so high out of the ground that the crowd started screaming "High High High" and that nickname stayed with the club ever since. The fans invariably started to sing "Hi Hi Hi!" as a battle cry to encourage the team to victory during the club's matches. There was a public house called The Hi Hi Bar at the southern end of Crown Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, about one mile from the club's Cathkin Park stadium.
One of the more successful clubs in early Scottish Football, Third Lanark was not the first major club to be compulsorily liquidated and dissolved. Former Scottish Cup winners Renton and near neighbours Vale of Leven suffered similar fates, although Vale of Leven was resurrected as a Junior side later on.
Third Lanark's demise was considered more remarkable as the club had finished third in Scotland's top division behind Rangers and Kilmarnock only six years before it folded, in the 1960–61 season, scoring 100 goals in the process. It was refounded in 1996 with forming Under-18s were formed by Jim Weir. Finally Third Lanark fielded a senior team, in 2007, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Third Lanark’s withdrawal from Senior Scottish football.
Third Lanark started as the football team of the Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (3rd LRV), part of the Volunteer Force. The team was formally founded on 12 December 1872 at a meeting of the Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers in the Regimental Orderly Room in Howard Street, Glasgow. The soldiers, inspired by the first ever international friendly which had taken place two weeks previously, decided to form their own team. Several of the Scotland team in that match, made up solely of Queen's Park players, had been part of the regiment: including Billy Dickson, Billy MacKinnon and Joseph Taylor.
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