Skye Camanachd - Camanachd Cup 1990

Camanachd Cup 1990

Skye famously won the Camanachd Cup for the first time in their history in 1990 against Newtonmore in Fort William. Inspirational in this victory was player, Willie Cowie and his brother, manager Ross Cowie. Their exploits were recorded for posterity by the BBC program "Home" which filmed behind the scenes on the day as well as the triumphant homecoming to Portree where they were met by a crowd of 5000 people, almost half the island's population. The celebrations are famous for the expensive trophy being lost and then found in the street at 6 in the morning the next day, the local legend being that everybody else thought that someone else was looking after it. In addition to winning the Cup, the Albert Smith Medal, an award presented to the Man of the Match in the final of the Camanachd Cup every year since 1972, was presented to Willie Macrae from Skye Camanachd in 1990. Skye remains the only team from an island to have won the Cup. The club toured Nova Scotia in 1991 in the afterglow of the success alongside Kingussie.