Sport and Leisuretime Activities

Coming soon ...

In the meantime here's a picture from an old cigarette card from the 1930s of the Vale OCOBA football team. this was provided by Graham Lappin. The Vale OCOBA was the forerunner of the Vale Juniors (OCOBA is an acronym for Old Church Old Boys Association).

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Information on the Card

Ardath Tobacco Co. Ltd
Vale OCOBA
L to R back row:— D. McCrimmond (trainer), J. Babes, J. Burns, J. 
Dunlop, W. Colquhoun, F. Wrethman, W. Ferguson (Captain).
Front row:— G. McCorquodale, S. Banks, J. Boyd, J. Wood, R. Allan.

"Vale Ocoba F.C. plays in both the Scottish Combination League and the West of Scotland Amateur League.  In 1933/34 won the Dumbartonshire Cup, the Scottish Amateur Charity Cup, and were Champions of the West of Scotland League.  The club repeated its success in the Dumbartonshire Cup in the following season."

We also came across an interesting YouTube clip of the match between Keith FC and Vale OCOBA in the 1936 Scottish Qualifying Cup final.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuaNt_Xzy20.

While this chapter is being written we shall use this page as a repository for any old documents or images that we come across.