 There are rumours of a competition near the River Clyde during the early 20th Century, famously referred to in "A Game of their Own", where a number of expatriate Australians were based in Scotland either as Ship Workers or Soldiers.Had this league existed, and there is no proof it ever did, then it had died out around the time of the First World War.Scots living in Melbourne and Victoria in the mid-19th century were greatly involved in the formation of the rules of the game, as well as the formation of a number of early clubs.