Coupar Angus Football Club was an association football club from Coupar Angus in Scotland. The club was a regular entrant to the Scottish Cup, entering every season from 1878–79 to 1892–93, and once won the Perthshire Cup. History The club was founded in 1877. Its first season was played under the name Vale of Strathmore; its first recorded match was a 3–0 defeat against Strathmore (Dundee) in November 1877. The club's first captain was Louis Macfarlane, but after the change of name to Coupar Angus, the club elected George Robertson, a bank manager in Coupar Angus, as captain, and Macfarlane continued as one of the two full-backs. The club's first Scottish Cup tie was at Rob Roy of Callander, the side losing 1–0 after a match of "give and take" character. The following season the club again lost to Rob Roy, albeit this time because the side was handicapped by an early collision between Macfarlane (playing for the match in goal) and "goal watcher" William Davidson, which saw the latter taken off the field and the former continuing while injured. Coupar Angus' first victory in the competition was in 1880–81, against Strathmore (Dundee), winning 4–1 in front of "a large number of spectators", in which every goal was scored in the first half. The club lost in the second round 3–0 at home to Arbroath. Coupar Angus played in the first Perthshire Cup in 1884–85, reaching the semi-final; Coupar Angus lost at home to Vale of Teith, the visitors coming in "for a good amount of 'chaffing'" from the spectators, "the female portion especially being rather demonstrative". The club protested against the refereeing on four grounds; a) the referee did not award a goal for Coupar Angus that was "fully one foot over the goal-line", b) the referee awarded a goal to the Vale despite having blown his whistle for a foul, c) the second goal came 150 seconds after full-time should have been given (and 2 minutes after the referee said time should have been up), and d) "throughout the whole game [the referee's] partiality was glaringly manifested". The Perthshire Football Association dismissed the protest, leaving Coupar Angus threatening to quit the association. In 1885–86, the club played in the first edition of the Forfarshire Cup, but after a 6–1 second round defeat to Strathmore (Arbroath) eschewed the competition to focus on the Perthshire. The club duly reached the