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| Ballachulish |
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| Full name |
Ballachulish Camanachd Club |
| Gaelic name |
Comann Camanachd Bhaile a' Chaolais |
| Nickname |
The Quarrymen |
| Founded |
1893 |
| Ground |
Jubilee Park, Ballachulish |
| Manager |
David MacPhee, William Sutherland |
| League |
South Division 1 |
| 2008 |
6th |
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Ballachulish Camanachd Club is a shinty team from Ballachulish, Lochaber, Scotland. The club was founded in 1893 the same year as the Camanachd Association. One of the sport's most famous clubs, they won the Camanachd Cup four times before the Great War. The club is also the most northerly of teams playing in the South district, the kyle at Ballachulish being the traditional demarcation point between the two districts. The club plays in South Division One and its second team will be entering South Division Two in 2009.
[edit] History
Founded in 1893, the club won the Scottish Cup in 1899, 1901, 1911 and 1912. The outbreak of war was to put an end to this run of success and the club has never quite achieved these heights again. The club regained some modicum of strength by winning the Mactavish Cup in 1938 before war intervened again. The last Camanachd Cup Final appearance to date was in 1948 when they lost to Newtonmore.
The club has never recovered the Camanachd Cup, but has several Celtic, Sutherland and Dunn Cups to its name and enjoyed a great spell in the 1960s. The club's second team restarted in 2007 and competed in the Bullough Cup and the Sutherland Cup, did not enter competition in 2008 but will be competing in 2009 in South Division Two.
[edit] In Popular Culture
- "The History of Ballachulish Shinty Club" has become a phrase used in connection with casting aspersions on any qualification seen as obscure or of low utility. [1]
- In her article, When it's rational to hate a stranger, Scottish journalist Sylvia Patterson wrote that she hoped footballer Cristiano Ronaldo would be resurrected as "as a 5ft 2in winger of a Ballachulish shinty team" in order to teach him a lesson about humility.[2]
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