Caberfeidh

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Caberfeidh

Full name

Caberfeidh Camanachd Club

Gaelic name

Comann Camanachd Cabar Feidh

Nickname

Cabers

Founded

1886

Ground

Castle Leod, Strathpeffer

Manager

Robbie Taylor

League

North Division One

2013

3rd

Reserve Manager

Andrew MacMaster

League

North Division Three

2013

5th

Home colours

Away colours

Caberfeidh Camanachd Club is a shinty team from Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. The club has two teams. The senior team plays in Marine Harvest North Division One and the second team in North Division Three. The name Caberfeidh comes from the Scots Gaelic for a stag's antlers, Cabar Feidh which is the symbol of Ross-shire.^[1]

History

The club was founded in 1886 in the Spa Pavilion in Strathpeffer, celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2011. It was an amalgamation of the Strathpeffer club and the Knockfarrel club . The name "Caberfeidh" was proposed by W.F. Gunn, who also represented the club at the inaugural AGM of the Camanachd Association.

In the early 1920s, the club became a junior side for two years due to a dearth of experienced players after the Great War but in 1926 the club defeated Beauly in the MacGillivray Cup Final and this began a glory run which lasted until the Second World War.

The club won the Camanachd Cup in 1934 and 1939 and also lost in the final to Kyles Athletic in 1935. They also won the MacGillivray League ten years in succession, winning 11 in total. They also appeared in eight MacTavish Cup finals, winning four. Indeed, the club's domination of the sport was so complete that one newspaper used the headline "No Other Worlds Left To Conquer".

After the war, the club was still successful although it never reached its intra-war heights again. The only comparable phase of domination was in the 1990s when the club won five successive Balliemore Cups, the intermediate championship.

In 2008, the club finished bottom of North Division One but were not relegated due to Fort William Seconds not being eligible for promotion to that league. In 2009, the club improved vastly and at one point looked to be making a push for promotion, however, they finished a satisfactory 5th place in the league as they bid farewell to their old clubhouse.

The club renovated their pavilion with assistance from Sportscotland. The club opened its new clubhouse in 2010 with a gala day involving a Cabers Over 40s v A Rest of the World Select as well as a Rock concert by Achnasheen Airport and Fash Stewart.

In 2011, the club reached the Balliemore Final again, but lost 2-0 to Bute in Portree. They hosted the final in 2012 between Lochaber and Beauly. A third place finished saw them take the final North spot in the reseurrected National Division One.

Calum Macdonald of Runrig is a supporter. His son Donald is a past-player for the club. Caberfeidh is the one shinty club in Scotland which groundshares with a cricket club, sharing Castle Leod with Ross County C.C..

References

↑ "Shinty.(Sport) - Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) - HighBeam Research". www.highbeam.com. Retrieved 2008-03-17.

External links

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Former Teams	Edinburgh East Lothian Forth Furnace Glasgow Cowal Nairnshire Naver Athletic Strathclyde Police

Junior teams	Cornwall Farr Kinlochbervie Kintyre Linlithgow Milngavie & Bearsden Northallerton Thurso Uist

Women's shinty	Aberdour Ardnamurchan Badenoch & Strathspey Cowal and Bute Dunadd Glasgow Mid Argyll Glengarry Lochaber Lovat Strathglass Skye Tir Conaill Harps

Competitions	Camanachd Cup Premier Division League System Grand Slam Macaulay Cup Sutherland Cup Balliemore Cup MacTavish Cup Glasgow Celtic Society Cup Strathdearn Cup Bullough Cup Mod Cup Valerie Fraser Trophy Lovat Cup London Shield Littlejohn Vase Albert Smith Medal

See also	Shinty in the United States Composite rules Camanachd Association English Shinty Association Scotland national shinty team English Shinty Team Alba Schools Camanachd Association Women's shinty Clash of the Ash

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