Gala Hearts

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Founded: c. 1891

Disbanded: 1912

Home ground: Public Park, Galashiels; then Mossilee

Notes:

1891: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002686/18911106/065/0003

1895 Played Edinburgh Australasians
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/18951205/003/0003

1895 Final of Melrose Sevens:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000954/19120419/062/0004

Player: Thomas McCrirrick
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19440330/079/0005

1907 dinner:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19070516/009/0003

1910 struggling with money; to pay travel to away fixtures:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19100714/009/0002

Reunion 1939:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19390223/113/0005

Reunion 1937 (states club existed 1906 to 1912):
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002162/19370226/073/0004

Marriage presentation 1913:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19130417/010/0003

Practically burst up as cannot get a team together January 1912:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19120104/008/0003

Club wound up 1912 & Border Junior Champions 1910-11:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19120516/047/0004

The side also had a veteran side, the Gala Hearts Ancients:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19110103/111/0003