Sport
Undoubtedly Tolsta FC’s finest hour and a half. The team pictured here are probably the best home-grown team to play for Tolsta in any era.
Shinty
Games and Amusements in the 1920s by Donald Macdonald The games played by the men at one time were shinty, vaulting with oars, weight lifting with large stones and putting the shot. The women had no time to play games. Boys and...
Athletics
Our Man in Rhodes 2007 Murdo Alex MacKenzie (mac Angus M agus Emma) was part of the Western Isles team competing at the Island Games in sports such as athletics, football, golf and swimming. This was a successful games for the...
Marathon man
Marathon Man... No, not the famous film with Dustin Hoffman, but none other than Tolsta's own long distance runner, Angus MacKay (34 North Tolsta). Since taking up running seriously in 2000 at an age at which some of us think that...
Cross country running
Tolsta School cross country success Session 2005-06 was a successful one for Tolsta's army of cross country runners. For a small school of only 45 children it has competed with the bigger schools and often triumphed over them. It...
Tolsta football through the ages
Football in 2002
Hail, hail! Tolsta Welfare Club finally picked up some silverware this year. After 6 years of league competition; some initial hefty defeats; less than consistent performances and a plethora of exotic injuries; Tolsta were at last...
Tolsta football 2004
Tolsta Football Club in 2004 Eilean an Fhraoich Cup - Tolsta youngsters show some promise It was with some trepidation that Tolsta entered the 2004 competition having fared poorly against Highland Amateur Cup holders...
Tolsta FC in the Eighties
Tolsta FC in the Eighties It was a decade that had started promisingly with an Eilean an Fhraoich Cup victory in 1981, however, by season 1989, the team had folded and was never to return to the league, although continuing to...
Tolsta five-a-sides
Tolsta five-a-side It was not just 11 a side that Tolsta's footballers displaying sporting prowess...they also excelled in the fast paced world of five-a-side football. Pictured here with the Acres Boys Club circa late 70s...
Tolsta FC’s finest 90 minutes
Tolsta FC's finest hour and a half The Eilean an Fhraoich Cup Final Replay of 26 September 1981 was undoubtedly Tolsta Football Club's finest sporting hour (and a half). Although not given much hope against a much feted Ness team...
Tolsta FC in the Seventies
Great football years - the 1970s Having supplied players of a very high calibre to Back FC in the sixties and seventies in particular, it was perhaps no surprise when people involved in football felt that there was sufficient...
Return to Eilean Fhraoich Cup
Welcome return to EF Cup action Tolsta FC made a welcome if unsuccessful return to the Eilean an Fhraoich competition after an absence of five years, but were unlucky to draw Lochs, then the form team in the Western Isles, in the...
Tolsta FC
Tolsta Football Club After 1988, the team continued to compete in the Eilean an Fhraoich Cup until 1998. The club did make a further welcome return to that same cup competition. For most of the period between 1976 and 1988, the club played in white shirts with a...