Shinty in the United States 2006 Gary Innes, Captain of Fort William Shinty Club and Man of the Match for the 2005 Camanachd Cup visited to California to play Shinty and to teach at a workshop hosted by the Northern California Camanachd Club open to all US Shinty Clubs. Gary Innes will be returning in June 2007 to teach another workshop open to all clubs and individuals. This workshop will help developing clubs as well as beginning level players. The club played its first twelve a-side fixture in Scotland against Skye Camanachd on 6 September 2007, they were defeated 9-0. The spring of 2008 marked
John Cattanach (shinty) becoming a Lieutenant in 1914. He died in 1915 during the First World War at Gallipoli. He was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002, and remains the only shinty player to have received this honour. John Cattanach (shinty) Dr. John Cattanach (1885–1915) was a shinty player for Newtonmore in the 1900s. He is the only shinty player inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame Cattanach is considered one the outstanding shinty players in history. He scored eight goals in an 11 - 3 victory for Newtonmore over Furnace in the Camanachd Cup Final of