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Montrealer Mario Lapointe is the new owner of Dumbarton FC. Source.
Morton host Partick Thistle. Partick are second in the division with 17 points, Morton sixth with 10. The season is one-quarter over. If Morton keep up this pace they will finish with 40 points, good for seventh place in last year’s Championship.
Morton visited Partick Thistle on August 9th and played to a 1 – 1 draw. Ali Crawford was the Morton scorer.
Last week’s win against Airdrie was Morton’s first of the season, coming in their ninth league fixture. It also took Morton until the ninth game to secure a win in 1972-73. The club record was set in 1901-02 and equaled in 2008-09 when they got their first win in the tenth match.
[Morton 1 – 1 Partick. Morton goal by Adeloye.]
The other Championship matches:
Arbroath (4th) [4 – 1] Queen’s Park (8th)
Raith Rovers (3rd) [0 – 2] Ayr United (5th)
St Johnstone (1st) [0 – 0] Ross County (9th)
Scottish Challenge Cup, league stage, matchday five:
Dumbarton [1 – 0] Rangers B
Other matches:
UCD 2 – 2 Athlone (yesterday)
Odd Kvinner [0 – 3] Arna-Bjornar (tomorrow)
Wick Academy [2 – 1] Strathspey Thistle
Gala Fairydean Rovers [0 – 3] Clydebank
Invergordon [6 – 0] Golspie Sutherland
Greenock vs Bonnyton Thistle (postponed)
Port Glasgow vs Glasgow United (postponed)
Efe Ambrose is playing for Glasgow United.
Valour [0 – 3] HFX Wanderers
Former Wanderer Samuel Salter has signed with Swedish club GAIS.
Calgary Wild [3 – 1] Halifax Tides
Albirex Niigata [3 – 0] Elfen Saitama (Monday)
Sfida Setagaya [1 – 2] Okayama Yunogo Belle (tomorrow)
This ends the Nadeshiko League 1 schedule.
Morton Women [4 – 1] Ayr United (tomorrow)
2026 World Cup qualification:
Scotland 3 – 1 Greece (October 9)
Scotland [2 – 1] Belarus (tomorrow)
South Challenge Cup, Round 2:
St Roch’s (W1) [10 – 0] Glasgow Perthshire (W3)
South Challenge Cup, Round 3:
East Stirlingshire (LL) 1 – 2 Greenock (W2) (yesterday) Upset
Ardeer Thistle (W3) [3 – 1] Glenrothes (EP) Upset
Arthurlie (WP) [1 – 1] Tranent (LL) [Tranent win on PK]
Beith (WP) [1 – 1] Maryhill (W2) [Beith win on PK]
Burntisland Shipyard (E2) [1 – 3] Kilbirnie Ladeside (W1)
Civil Service Strollers (LL) [2 – 2] St Andrews United (EP) [St Andrews win on PK] Upset
Cowdenbeath (LL) [3 – 0] Kennoway Star Hearts (E2)
Cumbernauld United (W1) [3 – 0] Forth Wanderers (W2)
Cumnock (WP) [1 – 0] Glasgow University (W3)
Drumchapel United (WP) [1 – 2] Glasgow United (W3) Upset
East Kilbride Thistle (W4) [1 – 6] Bonnyrigg Rose (LL)
Edinburgh College (E2) [0 – 4] Kilsyth Rangers (W2)
Edinburgh United (E3) [0 – 9] Largs Thistle (WP)
Giffnock (W4) [1 – 5] University of Stirling (LL)
Gretna 2008 (LL) [0 – 4] Shotts Bon Accord (WP) Upset
Haddington Athletic (EP) [1 – 1] Knightswood (W3) [Haddington win on PK]
Kinnoull (E2) [0 – 3] Auchinleck Talbot (WP)
Jeanfield Swifts (EP) [0 – 1] Leith Athletic (E1) Upset
Johnstone Burgh (WP) [4 – 3] Camelon (EP)
Larkhall Thistle (W2) [0 – 2] Lochar Thistle (SoS)
Lesmahagow (W2) [1 – 2] Caledonian Braves (LL)
Lochgelly Albert (E2) [2 – 2] Dundonald Bluebell (EP) [Bluebell win on PK]
Kilwinning Rangers (WP) [3 – 2] Cumbernauld Colts (LL) Upset
Muirkirk (W1) [5 – 2] Ashfield (W2)
Neilston (W1) [1 – 1] Linlithgow Rose (LL) [Neilston win on PK] Upset
Newton Stewart (SoS) [0 – 1] Glenafton Athletic (WP)
Petershill (W1) [2 – 3] Hurlford United (WP)
Renfrew (WP) [2 – 1] Kirkcaldy & Dysart (E1)
Stoneyburn (E3) [2 – 4] Rutherglen Glencairn (WP)
Thorn Athletic (W2) [2 – 1] Edinburgh South (E1) Upset
Vale of Clyde (W1) [2 – 0] Hill of Beath Hawthorn (EP) Upset
St Roch’s or Glasgow Perthshire vs Crossgates Primrose (postponed)
Scottish Junior Cup, R3:
Arbroath Victoria [3 – 3] Sauchie [Victoria win on PK]
East of Scotland Qualifying Cup, R2:
Newburgh [1 – 4] Coldstream
Historical matches:
1890/10/11 Morton 2 – 2 Port Glasgow Athletic
1930/10/11 Morton 0 – 3 Motherwell
1952/10/11 Morton 6 – 1 Dumbarton
1980/10/11 Airdrieonians 1 – 0 Morton
SFL results 1890-91:
1890/10/11 St Mirren 1 – 1 Vale of Leven
1890/10/11 Dumbarton 5 – 1 Aberdeen
1890/10/11 Queen’s Park 2 – 4 Third Lanark (Glasgow Cup R2)
1890/10/11 Northern 1 – 2 Celtic (Glasgow Cup R2)
1890/10/11 Summerton Athletic 1 – 2 Cowlairs (Glasgow Cup R2)
1890/10/11 Hearts 2 – 1 Hibs (EoSc Shield R2)
It’s the 61st Shakaijin Cup, in which 32 amateur clubs vie for three places in the 2025 Regional Champions League, to be held in November. The teams are: Blancdieu Hirosaki, Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth, ASC Hokkaido, Cobaltore Onagawa, Mesenbonzakura FC feat. S.U.F.T., Vonds Ichihara, Tokyo 23 FC, Toho Titanium, Nankatsu SC, Toin University of Yokohama, Atsugi Hayabusa, Tokyo International University, Fukui United, Toyama Shinjo Club, Vencedore Mie United, FC Ise-Shima, Chukyo University, FC Kariya, Arterivo Wakayama, Basara Hyogo, Cento Cuore Harima, Moriyama Samurai 2000, Laranja Kyoto, Fukuyama City, SRC Hiroshima, Belugarosso Iwami, FC Tokushima, Lvnirosso NC, J-Lease, Nobeoka Agata, Veroskronos Tsuno and KMG Holdings. Cobaltore, Toyama Shinjo Club, Arterivo, Fukuyama City, FC Tokushima and J-Lease are already in the Regional Champions League by virtue of having won their regional leagues, so if any of them finish in the top three the next best team or teams will advance. The Shakaijin Cup starts today and goes ’til Wednesday.







The Royals were 1959-60 EPHL champions.
The Eastern Professional Hockey League was a minor pro hockey league that operated for four seasons from 1959 to 1963 and served as a farm system for the NHL. During its first three seasons the league was made up of six teams, all of them in Canada. The Hull-Ottawa Canadiens were a Montreal Canadiens farm club. They played at both the Arena de Hull and the Ottawa Auditorium, hence the club’s hyphenated name. They had been part of the OHA Senior A league for three years before the creation of the EPHL, coached by such future luminaries as Sam Pollock and Scotty Bowman. Many Montreal Canadiens players of the 1960s came up through Hull-Ottawa. The Royals were the offspring of the venerable Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the original Stanley Cup champions. By the early 1930s the MAAA could no longer support all its sporting departments, so the men in charge of the hockey team spun it off under the name Royal Montreal Hockey Club. They played in the Montreal Senior Group from 1932 to 1937, the Quebec Senior Hockey League from 1937 to 1953, the Quebec Hockey League from 1953 to 1959, and were founding members of the EPHL in 1959. The Royals roster was also loaded with future Montreal Canadians. Like the NHL the EPHL played a 210-game schedule, or 70 games per team, spread over five-and-a-half months, followed by about a month of playoff games. The EPHL’s championship trophy (see it above) was the Tom Foley Memorial Trophy, named after an Ottawa broadcaster who was killed in a car crash in 1959.
October 6th was the 1960-61 season opener. The Royals visited the Hull-Ottawa at the Hull Arena.
First period: goals by Rousseau (Hull), G. Tremblay (Hull);
Second period: goals by Gray (Hull), Connelly (Royals);
Third period: goals by Skov (Hull), Pennington (Hull), O’Ree (Hull), Grigg (Royals), G. Tremblay (Hull).
Final score 7 – 2. Attendance 2,367.
Referee: Matt Pavelich.