Bon Accord Football Club was a football team from Aberdeen, Scotland who suffered the worst defeat in any Scottish senior football match, losing 36–0 to Arbroath on 12 September 1885 in a first round match of the 1885-86 Scottish Cup. Thirteen goals were scored by centre-forward John Petrie, a Scottish Cup and joint world record.
Bon Accord was drawn at home, but conceded the right to host the game to Arbroath.[4] Arbroath was 15–0 up by half time, and scored another 21 goals past Andrew Lornie[5] in the second half. The Scottish Athletic Journal at the time wrote "The leather was landed between the posts 41 times, but five of the times were disallowed. Here and there, enthusiasts would be seen scoring sheet and pencil in hand, taking note of the goals as one would score runs at a cricket match."[6]
Later historyedit
Happier times for Bon Accord, beating Stonehaven 9–0 in the first qualifying round of the Scottish Cup in 1891–92
The club entered the Scottish Cup in 1891–92, by which time the Scottish Football Association had brought in preliminary rounds. In the 1st preliminary round (5 September 1891), Bon Accord won 9–0 at Stonehaven, with goals from Forsyth (3), Hay (2), Clark (3), and Macfarlane,[9] but it lost 5–2 at home to the original Aberdeen in the 2nd round (26 September 1891), a tie notable for having the first penalty-kick in Aberdeenshire football, scored for Aberdeen by Key past Thomson.[10]
The club's final match was in aid of the Scottish Junior Football Association, against a team of select junior players; the club's dissolution may have been down to a 4–1 victory over Victoria United,[11] as in the aftermath seven of its players were recruited by Aberdeen, and another three emigrated.[12] A Junior side - founded as Junior Bon Accord in 1890 - soon adopted the name.
Coloursedit
The club's original colours were black and white striped shirts (in the context of the time, this refers to hoops) and white knickers.[13] There is a reference to players wearing plain white shirts for the tie with Arbroath, taken from their cricket whites, but this is probably apocryphal and based on the erroneous belief that Bon Accord was a re-named Orion Cricket Club.
^"Bon-Accord v Stonehaven". Aberdeen Journal: 7. 7 September 1891.
^"Bon-Accord v Aberdeen". Aberdeen Journal: 7. 28 September 1891.
^"Other matches". Aberdeen Journal: 7. 14 March 1892.
^"Football notes". Aberdeen Evening Express: 4. 30 March 1892.
^McDowall, John (1885). Scottish Association Annual 1885–86. Glasgow: H. Nisbet. p. 72.
^M'Dowall, John (1891). Scottish Football Annual 1891–92. Glasgow: Hay Nisbet. p. 97.
^McDowall, John (1885). Scottish Association Annual 1885–86. Glasgow: H. Nisbet. p. 72.
^"Scottish Cup tie - second round". Aberdeen Press and Journal: 7. 28 September 1891.
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