 The "Saints" played in red and white vertical stripes throughout their formative years playing at the Links Playing Fields.In 1895, St. Duthus played competitively for the first time in both the Pattisons' Challenge Cup and the Ross-shire Junior Cup.It was not until 1919–20 that they would compete for league honours, when they became the winners of the Ross-shire Junior League at the first time of asking following the association's restart at the end of the First World War.