Football not in but in a way from Loudoun was to have to have influence on the Scottish game from remarkably early on. In fact, but for it, Rangers might never have become the same force in the Scottish game. 

When Janet Vallance by 1881 had moved into a new home, perhaps the family's first house of their own, in Rhu in Dunbartonshire she named it Loudoun Cottage. The name was a recollection of where almost sixty years she had been born, on a remote farmstead at Burnfoot above the valley of the River Irvine in Ayrshire. Janet Vallance was, of course, the mother of Tom and Alex Vallance, both players for, seven times international Tom from 1874, Alex a year earlier, and captains of the now Ibrox, then nascent Glasgow Green club. It had been founded in 1872, pre-dating official Loudoun football by a full decade and a half.