Victorious Dornoch under 17 football team 1963
Date Added: 13 February 2010
Year: 1963
Institution Name: dnhhl
Cat No: ◀ | 2010_008 | ▶
Picture No: 8200
Monochrome photograph of Dornoch under 17 football team after winning a schools Cup at Golspie 1963. Back row: Frank Manson,David McLean, Donald Bremner,Allan Ross,Norman McLean Robert McKenzie Front row : Walter Wickham, Dan Murray, Callum Grant, Donald Mckee ,Billy Leslie.
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5 Comments
Not the Donny Allan Cup, it was a schools football cup. This was a Sutherland FA trophy. Either Janson, Buinillie or W. Sutherland Cup.
Comment left on 05 March 2010 at 18:00 by Bill Leslie
I remember it well! ( almost) but I think it was the Painter Cup.
Comment left on 08 November 2010 at 14:47 by Alan Ross
Any further clarification of the trophy would be most helpful
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We are in black and white Dornoch FC strips, not school strips. The Donny Allan and Painter Cups were for under 14 or 15 and under 13 respectively. I am pretty sure that the one handled Sutherland FA under 17 cup was the Janson Cup.
We won 2-1. Someone who shall remain nameless took the ball down with his hand and ran half the length of the pitch to score the winner. There was almost a riot and we were being bombarded by water while the picture was being taken. That's why David had turned round. We all got in free to the football club dance in the Drill Hall because we had just won the cup. It even made Dod smile. Comment left on 10 November 2010 at 11:21 by Bill Leslie
We won 2-1. Someone who shall remain nameless took the ball down with his hand and ran half the length of the pitch to score the winner. There was almost a riot and we were being bombarded by water while the picture was being taken. That's why David had turned round. We all got in free to the football club dance in the Drill Hall because we had just won the cup. It even made Dod smile. Comment left on 10 November 2010 at 11:21 by Bill Leslie
I can't recall the Janson Cup. A retired ironmonger has suggested another name that does mean something to me: the Willie Sutherland Cup. However, that might have been for under 18s or some such. The best cup to win (or reach the final of) was the Paynter Cup, because the winners and beaten finalists were treated by Lady Paynter (widow of Brig Gen G C B Paynter CMG CVO DSO)to a day at Suisgill Lodge, where in addition to an excellent meal we 13 year olds were allowed such delights as firing .202s on a rifle range - I can't imagine what the Heath & Safety folk would have to say about that nowadays. I don't think she let us fish the Helmsdale. Maybe the prospect of 22 wild wee boys flailing about with rods tipped with deadly hooks was too dangerous to contemplate even in these days.
Comment left on 20 January 2011 at 13:01 by David MacLean
I agree with your retired ironmonger source about the Willie Sutherland Cup, it was also under 17s. I referred to it above as the W. Sutherland Cup but it was always known as the Willie Sutherland Cup.
I think Willie Sutherland was a son of John Sutherland, Town Clerk and long time secretary of the golf club. I have a feeling that he was killed in WWII and his sister presented the cup to Sutherland FA
I'm pretty sure that the three trophies I referred to in my first post are the three that we played for in 1963 and 64. We were unbeaten in 63 but drew in one final and it was never replayed. We lost one game in 64, away to Helmsdale, and both years it was the Willie Sutherland Cup that we failed to win which rankled a bit as it was the Dornoch trophy.
Comment left on 20 January 2011 at 16:40 by Bill Leslie William Sutherland, son of John Sutherland long time Golf Club Secretary, was killed in World War 1. See picture #7678 (2003_063_001) photograph of William in Army uniform and 2004_257 his medals Administrator
I think Willie Sutherland was a son of John Sutherland, Town Clerk and long time secretary of the golf club. I have a feeling that he was killed in WWII and his sister presented the cup to Sutherland FA
I'm pretty sure that the three trophies I referred to in my first post are the three that we played for in 1963 and 64. We were unbeaten in 63 but drew in one final and it was never replayed. We lost one game in 64, away to Helmsdale, and both years it was the Willie Sutherland Cup that we failed to win which rankled a bit as it was the Dornoch trophy.
Comment left on 20 January 2011 at 16:40 by Bill Leslie William Sutherland, son of John Sutherland long time Golf Club Secretary, was killed in World War 1. See picture #7678 (2003_063_001) photograph of William in Army uniform and 2004_257 his medals Administrator
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