The club was founded on 10 December 1881,[1] out of the 1st Dumfriesshire Rifle Volunteers, a company in the Volunteer movement of the British Army. The Volunteers included sporting activities within their purview and newspapers often carried reports of such activities. The growth of football in Scotland, especially thanks to Queen's Park F.C., and the success of army teams in England such as the Royal Engineers A.F.C., encouraged regiments to form football clubs as part of the physical regimen. The 1st D.R.V. was re-organized under the Royal Scots Fusiliers in July 1881[2] and the football side seems to have emerged as a result of a larger pool of players, with 50 from which to choose.
The club tried to join the Scottish Football Association in June 1882, but was turned down for not having a private ground.[3] It was finally admitted two months later,[4] in time to enter the 1882–83 Scottish Cup. It had a lucky draw in the first round, as scheduled opponents Dumfries Academicals scratched.[5] In the second, it was drawn to play one of the two strongest sides in the region, Queen of the South Wanderers, at Nunholm, and was 3–2 up at half-time, but lost 5–3.[6]
The club did not enter the Churchill Cup for local sides, and seems to have given up the game, not renewing its Scottish FA membership at the end of the season.[7] The Volunteer movement was already catered for by the 5th K.R.V. which had attracted a much greater membership – notably the 5th K.R.V.'s second XI had beaten the 1st D.R.V.'s first XI 5–1 in November 1882.[8]
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The club's colours were black and yellow.
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The club played at Noblehill Park, near Dumfries.[9]
The 10th L.R.V. was a volunteer regiment football club, based in south-west Glasgow. It was founded in 1884,[10] after most of the volunteer sides in Glasgow had ceased playing senior football. The 10th was formed out of the Glasgow Highlanders, which had been founded in 1868. The regiment had briefly played football when called the 105th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers in the mid-1870s.[11]
The club optimistically joined the Scottish Football Association in 1885,[12] but scratched from its Scottish Cup entry when drawn to face St Andrew's.[13] Perhaps accepting it was out of its depth in a nearly-professional age, the club did not renew its Scottish FA membership;[14] indeed there are no records that the club ever played senior football outside a military environment.
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The club wore navy blue jerseys, 42nd tartan[15] knickers, and red stockings.[16]
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The club played at Braehead Park on the Rutherglen Road, later the home of Thistle.[17]
Annfield F.C.edit
Annfield
Dissolved
1881
The Annfield club was drawn in the Glasgow section of the 1881–82 Scottish Cup against Eastern Athletic; the club had no prior history, and there is no record of it joining the Scottish Football Association, so its entry was surprising. The result of the tie is unclear, as the North British Daily Mail had two reports - one saying that Annfield had won 2–1 at home, the other that it had drawn 1–1 away[18] - and the Glasgow Herald had that the tie was a draw, but at Annfield's ground.[19]
Whatever the score was, the tie was due to be replayed, but the club dissolved before it could take place.[20] An Annfield Thistle is recorded as playing in Glasgow in 1880, and this may be the same club.[21]
Ardrossan F.C.edit
Ardrossan
Founded
1874
Dissolved
1876
Ground
Paisley Street
Match Secretary
Robert M'Cubbin
Captain
H. Barclay
Historyedit
The first match in the town was played in September 1870, and featured the Ardrossan Castle club demonstrating the sport at the head of Glasgow Street;[22] on 24 September 1870, the Castle club beat the Ardrossan club 1–0, although it is not clear whether the match was under rugby or Association rules - the match featured touchdowns, which were part of the out-dated association set of laws which Queen's Park had been using.[23] The match appears to have been a one-off, as the formal foundation of the club took place in September 1874,[24] the first reported match being a defeat to Kilmarnock the following week.[25] M'Auslane, who had played for the Castle in the 1870 match, was vice-captain for the Ardrossan, and Hughes, who had played for Ardrossan in the match, was also a member of the new club.
The club's correspondence address was care of Barclay & Son Shipyards, suggesting its members were shipbuilders.[26]
It entered the Scottish Cup on two occasions, in 1875–76 and 1876–77, but withdrew from the competition both times before playing.[27] Its final reported match was a win over the Kilbirnie in April 1876.[28]
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The club played at a ground between Glasgow Street[29] and Paisley Street.[30]
The club was founded in Kelty, in Fifeshire, 1882 as Blairadam Swifts,[32] taking its name from Blairadam House, and it was one of the founder members of the Fifeshire Football Association.[33] It played in the Fife Cup for most seasons from the competition's start in 1882–83 to 1890–91, but never won a tie.[34] It did reach the last 4 in the competition's first iteration, but only after the team to which it lost in the first round, St Leonard's, fielded ineligible players, and, rather than re-playing the tie, ceded it to Blairadam;[35] with 8 entrants the club was automatically advanced to the semi-final.
The club dropped the Swifts epithet in 1883,[36] and the club's official name became simply Blairadam, but it was sometimes stylized as Blair Adam. Blairadam was admitted to the Scottish Football Association in August 1890[37] and it entered the 1890–91 Scottish Cup. It was drawn away to Bo'ness F.C. but scratched.[38] It also scratched from the Fife Cup that year, when drawn to face Cowdenbeath,[39] and appears to have been one of the 18 clubs struck from the roll in 1891.[40]
The Blairgowrie Football Club from Blairgowrie and Rattray was formed in 1880. It suffered a blow almost straight after its formation, captain Christie breaking his collarbone in training.[42]
After playing five matches in its first season - with a record of 2 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats, scoring 4 goals and conceding 9 - it joined the Scottish Football Association in 1881.[43] The club played one tie in the Scottish Cup, a 4–0 defeat to Coupar Angus in the first round in 1881–82. The final recorded game for the club was a 5–0 defeat at neighbours Rattray in February 1882, considered more "a series of tripping and foul charging",[44] and the club was removed from the Scottish FA membership roll in 1882.[45]
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The club wore navy and white 1" hooped jerseys and hose, with white knickers, and anachronistcally included a navy and white striped cap.[46]
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The club's ground was Games Park, adjoining Blairgowrie House,[47] at the west end of Blairgowrie, about half a mile from Blairgowrie railway station, thanks to the generosity of Mr Macpherson of Blairgowrie.[48]
Blairvaddick F.C.edit
Blairvaddick
Founded
1886
Dissolved
1887
Ground
Ibrox
Historyedit
1886–87 Scottish Cup 1st Round, Thistle 13–0 Blairvaddick, line-ups, Glasgow Evening News, 11 September 1886
The club's first match was a 5–0 defeat to Rutherglen on 4 September 1886, four of the goals coming in the last 15 minutes,[52] A week later the club played in the Scottish Cup at Thistle, and was hammered 13–0; the score was only 1–0 in the 43rd minute and 2–0 at half-time.[53]
The club's friendly matches included a home defeat to a 9-man Dykebar[54] and a 9–2 loss to the Hamilton Academical second XI,[55] shortly after which the club was the victim of a burglary after one Donald M'Millan, on two days, stole a football, three guernseys, a pair of boots, three hair-combs, and 48 pieces for a draughts board, for which he was sentenced to 3 months in prison.[56] Blairvaddick finally picked up a win over Clydesdale in November, by 1 goal to 0.[57]
Blairvaddick at least finished the season on something of a high; although it lost to Govan Athletic in the Govan Charity Cup, it beat Yoker in the Govan Jubilee Cup, a trophy for which just those two clubs originally competed,[58] The original match, at Summerton Athletic's Victoria Park, was a six-goal thriller which Yoker came from 2–0 down to 3–2 up, and Blairvaddick rescued the game with "a combined rush" just before time.[59] The replay, at the same venue, was won for Blairvaddick thanks to a late winner from Hughes.[60] However, the success was Blairvaddick's last match; it was struck from the Scottish FA membership in 1887, and it gave up on football,[61] although continued with the cricket.[62]
The earliest match recorded for the Perth club is in March 1885, against the Perth Swifts.[66] At the end of the month, the club resolved to join the Perthshire Association for the following season;[67] its first appearance in the Perthshire Cup, in 1885–86, ended in a 10–1 defeat in the first round to the Vale of Teith.[68]
The club entered the county cup until 1888–89, although the club never won a tie; its only "success" coming in its final entry, when Guildtown Wanderers scratched to it in the first round.[69]
The club joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1888, its name styled as Bridge-End Athletic (Perth).[70] This entitled the club to enter the 1888–89 Scottish Cup, but it lost in the first round 6–1 at home to Coupar Angus, the Athletics scoring its goal in the first half, but conceding three in each.[71]
Its run as a senior club was brief - in 1889 the club was struck from the Scottish FA register[72] and the club gave up football owing to "want of support".[73]
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The club originally registered alternate sets of colours with the Scottish FA - maroon or white.[74] In 1889 it registered a combination of the two.[75]
Burnside (Partick) F.C. was formed in Partick, Glasgow, in 1878, out of a cricket club.[77] It entered the 1878–79 Scottish Cup and was the lucky club in the Glasgow section to receive a bye into the second round, where it was drawn to visit Alexandra Athletic; the A.A.C. won 3–0, Burnside not even managing a shot.[78]
The club does not seem to have played another senior match; drawn to face Ailsa in the 1879–80 Scottish Cup, the Scottish FA recorded that the club had dissolved.[79] There was one more recorded match for a Burnside (Partick) club, being a defeat at Moffat in January 1881, although this probably refers to a separate club.[80] The club was not related to a club from Paisley of the same name which existed in the 1880s.[81]
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The club wore royal blue and scarlet jerseys, blue knickers, and stockings of any colour.[82]
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The club's home was Clarendon Park, opposite the Gas Works tram station.[83]
Caledonia was plainly out of its depth, with only 35 members making it the smallest side in the county, and having St Mirren, Northern, and Southern as bigger sides in Greenock itself. After one season as a senior club, Caledonia did not renew its subscription to the Scottish FA, [90] and did not play again.
Although there is no evidence as to when the club was admitted to the Scottish Football Association, or indeed that it played more than a couple of matches before the 1885–86 season,[94] the club entered the 1885–86 Scottish Cup. It beat Southern Athletic 2–1 in the first round of the competition,[95] having to play the tie twice after Athletics protested about the non-registration of several players.[96] The club played St Andrew's in the second round, at Moray Park,[97] but lost 6–0.[98]
There was only one other match for the club which gained any major attention, against Tollcross, and that was to announce the match had been called off.[99] The club's final recorded match was a 12–0 defeat at the Thistle 2nd XI in the Glasgow North Eastern Cup in January 1886.[100] The club was struck from the Scottish FA membership roll in August 1886.[101]
The Cartha club from the Pollok area of Glasgow was founded in 1890 out of a cricket club which was based in Pollok Park.[102] The club's secretary, James Kirkland, had previously held the role at Southern Athletic,[103] so may have been recruited for the role in order to ensure fixtures for the new club. The club was properly the Cartha Athletic Club,[104] and was often referred to as Cartha Athletic,[105] but the registered football name was Cartha.
The Thistle was from the town of Catrine, Ayrshire; an earlier club of the same name played in the 1880–81 season,[111][112] but this particular club is first recorded in 1890.[113] By May 1891 the club had won 28 of its 36 matches[114] and in August 1891 it joined the Scottish Football Association.
Catrine only played three competitive matches as a senior club. Its 1891–92 Scottish Cup first preliminary round tie at Dalry was abortive as the official referee did not turn up, so the clubs played out a friendly, which the Thistle won 4–3.[115] Dalry had evidently learnt its lesson because when the tie was properly played off, it won 5–0.[116] # The other two matches were against Stewarton Cunninghame in the Ayrshire Cup; after a 4–4 draw, Stewarton won the replay 7–5.[117] The club left the Scottish FA in August 1892.[118]
The club played out the 1891–92 season, finishing with an 8–0 win against Kilmarnock Strollers,[119] but after being struck from the Scottish FA roll in August, never seems to have played again.[120]
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The club played in dark blue jerseys and knickers.[121]
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The club's ground was Alexandria Park.[122] The largest recorded crowd was 1,500, for a friendly with a Celtic reserve side.[123]
The Renfrewshire club was formed in 1893, shortly after the demise of Cathcart F.C., and played its first match against a Helensburgh side at home that March. The Volunteers enjoyed an 8–1 victory, with 8 different scorers; M'Culloch, J. Campbell, Gardiner, Brass, Harley, Gairey, R. Campbell, and an own goal.[124]
The club joined the Scottish Football Association five months later and lost narrowly to Lanemark in the first preliminary round of the Scottish Cup, 4–3 in a replay; in the original tie, the Volunteers came from 3–1 down to draw 3–3 despite losing a man to injury.[125] However in the Renfrewshire Cup the club lost 13–2 at Abercorn.[126]
The club entered the Scottish Cup in 1894–95, but scratched when paired with a strong Hurlford side in the first preliminary round,[127] and the club's last reported match was a 4–3 home defeat to a touring Bohemians F.C. in October 1894.[128] At the end of the season it was struck from the membership roll.[129]
The club's senior run only lasted one season, it not paying its subscription to the Scottish FA for 1885–86,[137] although the club did play in the Lanarkshire Cup for the only time. In the first round, the club came close to pulling off a shock, holding Hamilton Academical to a 1–1 draw away from home,[138] and tried unsuccessfully to claim the tie via protest.[139] The replay - also held at South Street - saw the Acas re-assert their superiority, winning 11–1.[140]
The final scheduled game known for the club was at Union in Dumbarton on Boxing Day 1885,[141] although the name was later revived for Junior sides.
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The club wore navy and red hooped jerseys and hose, and navy knickers.[142]
Although an earlier Coatbridge F.C. had existed briefly in the mid-1870s,[144] the earliest match recorded for this club is a win over the Waverley club by 2–0 in September 1885.[145]
Despite bearing the name of the Lanarkshiretown, the club kept a low profile, and did not even enter the Lanarkshire Cup. However, the Drumpellier club stopped playing football at the end of the 1887–88 season, and Coatbridge accepted the chance to take over its place as the third senior club in Coatbridge,[146] for the start of the 1888–89 season.[147]
The club therefore entered both the 1888–89 Scottish Cup and the Lanarkshire Cup for the first time. The club lost 5–0 at Cambuslang Hibs to such general indifference that even the Coatbridge Express did not mention the score, and the club did not turn up for its county cup first round tie at Carfin Shamrock.[148] Unsurprisingly, given such apathy from and about the club, it ceased operations before the next season.[149]
The club played at Blair Lodge Park,[151] replacing Drumpellier. After the club's end, the ground was taken over fully by Junior side Coatbridge Hibernians,[152] who had been sharing the ground previously.
The short-lived Glaswegian club claimed to have been founded in 1882. In 1884, after playing one match in the 1883–84 season (a 3–3 draw), it joined the Scottish Football Association,[153] and entered the 1884–85 Scottish Cup. After a 7–0 defeat at Possilpark,[154] no more is heard of the club until its removal from the Scottish FA register the next season.[155]
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The club wore dark blue jerseys and knickers.[156]
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The club played on a private ground at Cyrus Park, on the Cumbernauld Road, 3 minutes' walk from Alexandra Park railway station.[157] The ground was probably part of Alexandra Park itself, or one of the two open areas between the park and the Cumbernauld Road.
Although a one-off rugby union match is recorded for a Dumfries Academicals side in 1879,[158] the first match for a properly formed Dumfries Academicals club - also to rugby rules - was against the former pupils of Grosvenor College, Carlisle in October 1881. The Academicals side was made up mostly (but not exclusively) of former pupils of the Dumfries Academy.[159] The only goal of the game was scored by Tennant, who was the secretary of the association side.
The club did play a handful of matches in 1882–83, including a creditale 7–4 defeat to the 5th K.R.V. in March,[164] but left the Scottish FA at the end of the season.[165]
The first references to the club are from August 1889, when the new club took part in a five-a-side football contest at the Dumfries recreation grounds.[169] The new club ambitiously joined the Scottish Football Association the same month[170] and entered the 1889–90 Scottish Cup.
The club drew a bye in the first round, but faced Queen of the South Wanderers in the second round at the latter's Cresswell Park. The match was considered a foregone conclusion, as the Wanderers' junior side had beaten the Harp 6–3 in September. However, the Harp, with the wind and sun behind them, took a surprise early lead, and the score was still 1–1 at half-time. The Wanderers' superior experience told, but only towards the end of the game, when it ran up late goals for a flattering 5–1 win.[171]
The only other competitive match the club played was in the Churchill Cup for southern counties sides in November, a 7–1 defeat against Dumfries, with left-wing M'Kinnon scoring the Harp goal when two down.[172] The club was invited to take part in the Southern Counties Charity Cup, but its 12–1 defeat at the 5th K.R.V., to "very little interest", and two of the Harp only turning up 20 minutes into the game, seems to have been so crushing as to finish the club.[173] It was duly struck from the SFA register in 1890.[174]
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The club wore green jerseys and white knickers.[175]
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The club played at Mildamhead, also the ground of Dumfries.[176]
1893–94 Scottish Cup 1st preliminary round, Oban Rangers 1–4 Dunach, Oban Times, 6 September 1893
The club, from Oban in Argyllshire, took its name from a nearby clan estate.[177] The first reference is of a home match with the Oban F.C. second XI in January 1889; despite Oban bolstering its side with three first-teamers, and F. Edmondson and C. N. MacDonald of the home side only being 14, the game ended 1–0 to Dunach.[178]
Dunach made the ambitious decision to join the Scottish Football Association in 1893, and won its first qualifying round match in the 1893–94 Scottish Cup 4–1 at Oban Rangers.[179] In the second round, the club lost 3–1 to Inveraray, the match being played at the Rangers' Mossfield Park. The score was 1–1 at half-time, but Inveraray scored a freak crucial second goal, when a parry from goalkeeper Smith hit the shoulder of half-back MacDiarmid and ricocheted back through the goal.[180]
At the end of the season, the club was struck off the Scottish FA roll, along with neighbours Oban Rangers and the 1st Argyll Rifle Volunteers, the difficulties in keeping up senior football with few fixtures in a remote area proving too great.[181]
The club was formed in Dunkeld in 1879, and by 1880 was the biggest club in Perthshire, with 50 members.[185] Its first recorded match was a draw against the Killin club of Weem.[186]
In 1880–81 the club played 7 matches, with 5 wins, 1 draw, and 1 defeat.[187] The defeat was in the second round of the 1880–81 Scottish Cup, the club having been overlooked in the draw for the first round, so allowed to take part from the second, [188] where Dunkeld lost 4–0 at home to Rob Roy of Callander;[189] indeed those goals were the only ones the club conceded all season. The clubs were drawn together in the first round in the 1881–82 Scottish Cup, but Dunkeld scratched.[190] The issue may have been the availability of players; four of its first-choice members could not play in a friendly against Perseverance of Blairgowrie and Rattray in November 1881 (although the club scored the only goal),[191] and that seems to have been the club's final match.
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The club wore 1" hooped navy blue and white jerseys and hose,[192] and, originally, blue and white caps and white trousers, with a black and yellow badge.[193]
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The Duchess Dowager of Athole allowed the club to use a park on Inver Road, half-a-mile from Dunkeld railway station,[194] known as Little Dunkeld.
Dunmore F.C.edit
Dunmore
Founded
1876
Dissolved
1877
Ground
Magdalen Green
Hon. Secretary
T. B. Cuthbert
Captain
J. Gorthy
Historyedit
The club was founded in 1876, as the second club in Dundee, the year after St Clement's.[195]
The club's earliest reported match was a 5–0 win over the new Strathmore side, although it was still behind St Clement's, losing 2–1 in April 1877[196] and to the same club in its one Scottish Cup appearance, in the second round in 1877–78, with Dunmore having to recruit players from elsewhere in the district to form a side.[197]
The Dunmore appears to have been taken over by St Clement's after that match, as there are no further Dunmore matches recorded. St Clement's had gradually been attracting players from Dunmore; Robertson had swapped sides before the April 1877 fixture, and Gourlay and Swan before the Scottish Cup tie, with J. M'Lennan joining St Clement's soon afterwards,[198] and them joining Lawson at Our Boys in 1878.[199]
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In common with many of the early clubs in the town, Dunmore played at Magdalen Green.[200]
The club had only two matches of note. In the first round of the 1886–87 Scottish Cup, when, with the club 8–0 down to Dumbarton Athletic, and the rain teeming down, the Duntocher players walked off and abandoned the game.[203] It reached the third round of the 1886–87 Dumbartonshire Cup, thanks to a bye and second round opponents Dumbarton Hibernians not turning up to the club's Clydebank ground, so Duntocher kicked off and claimed the tie.[204] There had been some confusion over the venue as the Hibernians had choice of ground, but could not host it themselves, because their ground was not private.[205] In the third round, the club was easily beaten 3–0 at Union, all three goals coming in a brief first-half burst.[206]
1884–85 friendly, Eastern (Glasgow) v Dunblane, Stirling Observer, 27 November 1884
The Glasgow club was said to have formed in 1875, but the first recorded match for the club is a 4–0 defeat to Orchard in 1879,[208] and there is then a gap until November 1884, when it played Dunblane at home. Confusingly, the club emerged at the same time as two revivals of the Eastern Athletic name, in the same area of north-eastern Glasgow.
In January 1885, the club entered the North-Eastern Cup (alongside Eastern Athletic),[209] In the first round it beat Tollcross 5–2,[210] but lost narrowly to the well-established Northern 1–0 in the second.[211][212]
There is no record of the club joining the Scottish Football Association, possibly because of confusion with Eastern Athletic, which was listed as joining in 1884. Certainly Eastern entered the 1885–86 Scottish Cup, demonstrating that the club had been accepted as a member, but scratched after being drawn at G.U.Y.M.C.A.A.C.[213]
Eastern played regular friendlies through the year,[214] and, with a membership of 50, had enough members to play three XIs.[215]
Eastern was noted as having been removed from the membership list in 1886, this time there being no reference to Athletic, suggesting both clubs had left at the same time.[216] The name was used in 1886 by a junior club.[217]
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The club wore navy jerseys with white knickers.[218]
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The club played at Springfield Park in Dalmarnock Road.[219]
The club from the Parkhead area of Glasgow was founded in February 1879; the club's captain was one A. M'Gregor.[223] Its earliest recorded match was a 2–0 win over the Strathclyde club at the start of the 1879–80 season.[224]
The club was an entrant to the first Royal Standard and Grand National Hall competition in 1879–80, for clubs in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.[225] However the club's one tie in the competition was a disastrous 11–0 defeat to Oxford.[226]
Despite having a weak record as a junior club, having obtained the use of a private ground, it joined the Scottish Football Association in 1881.[227] Its 36 members meant it was almost the smallest senior club in Glasgow; only Battlefield was smaller, and then only by one member.[228] The club had a single season of senior football, being struck from the roll in 1882.[229]
Its one entry to the Scottish Cup, in 1881–82, saw it walk over the Annfield club - after a match which is reported as ending in a draw or an Annfield win,[230] but a replay being ordered - in the first round,[231] and withdraw when faced with South Western in the second.[232]
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The club wore navy shirts, white knickers, and blue stockings.
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The club moved to a new ground at Lower Carntyne Park in September 1880, the first match being a game against Albany that ended 2–2, one of the Albany goals being disputed.[233][234] currently the site of the ground of Glasgow United.
The club was founded in 1884, with 42 members, confusingly at the same time as the foundation of Eastern F.C., in the same area of north-east Glasgow. Its first secretary, Robert Connell, was the former secretary of Pollokshields Athletic.[236]
The club entered the North-Eastern Association in January 1885, at the same time as Eastern.[240] Its one tie in the competition ended with a 2–0 to Springburn Hibernian in a second replay.[241][242] The club was at least prominent enough to host Rangers at its new Dalmarnock ground at the end of the 1884–85 season,[243] and had played 31 matches, albeit only winning 10. However, towards the end of the season, the club was finding it difficult to field its first XI[244] and in 1885–86 it only played friendly matches.
Eastern Athletic is shown as joining but not leaving the Scottish FA; conversely, Eastern is shown as leaving[245] but not joining. The similarity of geography and name of the two sides perhaps indicates that both joined in 1884 and both left in 1886. Certainly Eastern Athletic was playing senior football as late as April 1886, but there is no record of it doing so afterwards,[246] and at least two of its players (Stirling and Lawrie) are recorded as playing for Shettleston in 1886–87.[247] A one-off record of a junior side in December 1886 is probably not the same club.[248]
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The club wore slightly different colours in its two seasons - in 1884–85, navy and white jerseys and hose, with navy trousers,[249] and in 1885–86, changed the hoops to black.[250]
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In 1884–85, the club played at the same Carntyne Park[251][252] as the previous Eastern Athletic club.[253] In 1885–86, the club moved a ground it called Dalmarnock Park,[254] but which was actually Beechwood Park, home of Thistle.[255]
Notable playeredit
Phil Clark, who joined the club from Orchard, and who later played for Hibernian[256]
The first reference to a football match in Fort William, Invernessshire, was a match between "Shopkeepers" and "Scribes" in January 1880.[259] The Fort William club however was formed in summer 1883 by young lads who wanted "to promote a healthy and manly amusement for themselves", and the earliest reference to a match is a defeat in May 1884 to a scratch team of Mr C. Young.[260]
The remoteness of the town meant it was difficult to find matches and the club was refused entry to the Inverness Charity Cup in 1887; when the club played a friendly at Inverness Caledonian in April 1891, the club had to undertake a 12 hour steamer journey, and the match had to be cut short by 30 minutes so the club could catch the return steamer.[261]
Nevertheless, the club entered the Scottish Cup in 1891–92 and 1893–94, but to no avail, as it did not play a tie - a series of mutual scratchings following. The club continued its activities on a low-key level until at least 1913, playing over the summer rather than a traditional winter season,[262] but it does not seem to have re-emerged after the First World War.
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The club originally wore red and white jerseys and hose, and blue knickers.[263][264] In 1893 it changed its shirts to white.[265]
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The club first played on land near the market stance given to the club by Mr D. P. McDonald;[266] the club had previously practised on fields near Glen Nevis.[267] By 1887 it was playing at Victoria Park,[268][269] provided by Mrs Cameron Campbell of Monzie, who even paid for the fences.[270]
Wanderers' William Fraser, Football Post, 24 September 1904
The club was formed in October 1890 under the name Buchan Wanderers, made up of "some of the best players of two leading clubs" (one of which was Faithlie Thistle),[272] William Burnett being appiinted as captain and Alex Byth as vice-captain.[273] The club's first match was against fellow Fraserburgh side Hawthorn, which ended contentiously as the Wanderers walked off when the referee refused to allow what would have been an equalizing goal.[274]
Over the next couple of years, the club was variously referred to as Buchan Wanderers, Wanderers,[275] or Fraserburgh Wanderers,[276] the last reference to the Buchan name in the form of "Fraserburgh Buchan Wanderers" in October 1892,[277] and Fraserburgh Wanderers was the name under which the club registered itself with the Scottish Football Association in 1893.[278]
The Fraserburgh FA was set up in February 1890 and the club was a founder member. It won the Fraserburgh Cup for the first time in 1892–93, and every season from 1894–95 until 1903–04.[279] The club also took part in the Aberdeenshire Cup from 1892–93 to 1904–05, but found the standard far higher, either losing by big margins every time it played, or scratching from its remaining entries.
Despite this dispiriting record at county level, the club entered the Scottish Cup in 1893–94, being drawn at Aberdeen in the first preliminary round. Aberdeen scored straight from the kick-off and, 6–0 up at half-time, were so dominant that Tom Smyth in goal swapped out with left-back Ritchie; this allowed William Noble to score the only Wanderers goal with a "soft shot". However Aberdeen scored five more without reply for an 11–1 victory.[280]
Plainly outgunned, the Wanderers did not enter the competition again, and reverted to county and local football. Its long hold on the Fraserburgh Cup was ended in 1905 by Fraserburgh Thistle, who beat Wanderers 3–2 in the final,[281] and the club disbanded afterwards, supposedly for one season,[282] but it never re-emerged.
The club originally played its matches on the Fraserburgh Links.[285][286] It played its most important matches, such as Aberdeen Cup matches, on Bellslea Park,[287] as did the Hawthorn side.
The Dumfries club was founded in 1889,[290] by adherents to Gladstonian liberalism. Its earliest recorded match is a 19–0 hammering by St John's in September,[291] but recovered enough to beat the Dumfries Swifts 4–3 the next month, the game ending early as the Swifts walked off in protest at a refereeing decision.[292]
The club made its debut in competitive football in the 1891–92 season, by entering the Southern Counties Cup and the Churchill Cup. However the club suffered heavy defeats in its first ties in both - 11–3 to St Cuthbert Wanderers in the former and 14–2 at Queen of the South Wanderers in the latter. The club did successfully protest its defeat against St Cuthbert on the basis that one of the Kirkcudbright club's players was wearing iron heelplates; even though the protest was considered "paltry" the Southern Counties FA considered it had no alternative given the regulations but to uphold it.[293] However the replay never seems to have taken place, the Gladstonians withdrawing.[294]
The club was the subject of some notoriety when one of its members, John William Brown, a painter of North Queensbury Street, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment after drunkenly assaulting a woman and stealing 4s from her.[295]
The club however joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1892, despite not having a private ground of its own, which was normally a minimum requirement.[296] This enabled the club to enter the preliminary rounds of the 1892–93 Scottish Cup, apparently without the knowledge of the club's members,[297] so, when drawn to play Queen of the South Wanderers in its first tie, it scratched on arrival, and the clubs played out a friendly. As with the Churchill Cup tie the year before, the Wanderers won 14–2, Gladstonians playing the second half with ten men.[298] It turned out to be the club's only entry in the competition, as it did not renew its Scottish FA membership at the end of the season.
Gladstonians did at least win a competitive match in the Southern Counties Cup that season, 8–0 at Rising Thistle,[299] but the club was 6–1 down at Newton Stewart in the quarter-final when the tie was stopped for bad light;[300] rather than replay the tie, the Glads scratched.
The club had not entered the Churchill Cup that season, and did not enter any senior-level competition again; it continued to play until at least the end of 1894,[301] but seems to have disbanded by the start of the 1895–96 season.
The name was revived in 1896, when the Dumfries and Maxwelltown Junior Liberal Association resolved to form a new football club, adopting a familiar name.[302]
However the club's move to seniority may have cost it some of its following, as it was now a competitor to the other Edinburgh senior clubs, rather than a complement. The club did not renew its membership at the end of the 1885–86 season. [306] Its only competitive matches as a senior club included a 6–2 defeat in the 1885–86 Scottish Cup to Norton Park[307] - a club which had never won a Scottish Cup tie before - and a 3–1 defeat to the junior Vale of Midlothian in the first round of the Edinburgh Shield.[308]
The club did continue after leaving the Scottish FA, entering the Edinburgh Shield until 1887–88 and entering the new King Cup twice, in 1886–87 and 1887–88.
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The club wore black jerseys, white knickers, and black and white hose.[309]
The east Glasgow club was formed in 1877, out of a cricket club.[311] Its earliest recorded football fixture was a 5–0 win against the Saracen Youths on Glasgow Green in 1880.[312]
After a record of 13 wins, 2 draws, and just 1 defeat in 1882–83,[313] the club decided to turn senior in 1883.[314] It lost 3–1 in the first round of the 1883–84 Scottish Cup to Granton.[315]
The club had one season as a senior club,[316] and seems to have dissolved after the season, although its matches were scarcely ever reported, so it may have continued on a low-key basis afterwards.
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The club wore royal and navy blue striped jerseys, and white knickers.[317]
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The club started out at Glasgow Green.[318] As a senior club Glencairn obtained the use of Strathclyde Park, on the east end of Dalmarnock Road, a minute from the tram terminus.[319]
The club was therefore joining a saturated market, and, despite claiming a foundation date of 1883, there are no matches recorded from before May 1884.[321] Its first match as a senior took place on 30 August 1884, and was an 11–0 hammering at home to Southern;[322] a week later, as a practice match for its opponent, a Rovers XI took on a ten-man Morton, and lost 4–0.[323]
Rovers would only ever play one competitive match, a 3–1 defeat at Clippens in the 1884–85 Scottish Cup.[324] In the aftermath of the match there were rumours that Rovers had already disbanded.[325] Rovers did last long enough to register a 2–1 revenge win over Clippens in October 1884,[326] but at the end of the month it not turn up to Bogston Park for its first round Renfrewshire Cup tie with Northern (Greenock),[327] and it fell off the Scottish FA register after only one season.[328]
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The club wore navy blue jerseys and knickers, and red hose.[329]
The Hamilton, Lanarkshire club was first recorded in June 1887 as an entrant to a four-a-side football tournament.[333] Two months later the Hibernians joined the Scottish Football Association[334] and entered the 1887–88 Scottish Cup. The club was drawn against fellow Irish-origin side Cambuslang Hibernians in the first round and lost 6–4.[335] The two sides were again drawn together in the first round of the Lanarkshire Cup a month later, again at Cambuslang, and again Cambuslang won a high-scoring game, this time 9–3.[336]
The club was active through the season, and started the 1888–89 season with a friendly against Hamilton West-End.[337] The Hibs almost became the top club in Hamilton at the same time, as it appeared that Hamilton Academical was on the verge of dissolving, a meeting to confirm the decision being postponed because (ironically) of a lack of interest, with the Hibs poised to take over the Acas' ground and plant at South Haugh,[338] but the Hibs turned down the chance to do so, and the Acas decided to continue.[339]
The Hibs' failure to take over South Haugh was a fateful, and fatal, step. Before the season could get properly underway, Glasgow Hibernian took away Duffy, and the Acas took away M'Queen;[340] by the end of August the Hibs were struck off the Scottish FA roll for non-payment of subscription,[341] and the club disappeared. A new club, Hamilton Harp, started up in 1890 to represent the Hamilton Irish.
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The club wore green jerseys and blue knickers.[342]
1893–94 Scottish Cup 1st preliminary round, Orion 9–1 Hawthorn (Fraserburgh), Aberdeen Press, 4 September 1893
The Hawthorn club was formed in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, in October 1888.[349] The club was made up primarily of tradesmen and shopkeepers.[350] At the time, association football in the town was considered a distinct second to rugby, a rugby match at the start of 1889 being considered the "more important match" than the Hawthorn friendly on the same day.[351]
The Fraserburgh FA was set up in February 1890 and the club was a founder member. It won the Fraserburgh Cup in its first instalment in 1889–90, and also took the trophy in 1891–92 and 1893–94.[352][353]
In the latter season, the club played in the Scottish Cup for the only time, being drawn at Orion in the first preliminary round. Hawthorn put in special practice for the tie,[354] and, kicking off with the slope, took an early lead. However the nettled Orion scored nine goals without further reply.[355] The clubs met again in a friendly at the Links three weeks later; this time Orion won 9–2.[356]
Hawthorn tried its luck in the Aberdeenshire Cup in 1894–95, beating Aberdeen University F.C. 6–4 at Bellslea Park in the first round, coming from 4–2 down, despite having a "somewhat scratchy team";[357] but scratched to Orion in the second.
The last recorded fixtures known for the club was a pair of ill-tempered 4–2 fixtures with Peterhead, the match at Bellslea leaving "two, or three, of the Hawthorn players incapacitated",[358] and the return ending 7–2 to Peterhead.[359] References to a Hawthorn club afterwards appear to refer to an Aberdeen side,[360] and a new club using the Hawthorn name was formed in Fraserburgh in 1898.[361]
The club was formed in Holytown, Lanarkshire, in 1879. It was considered the winners of "the championship of the district" after a win over New Stevenston Rangers in August 1881[367] and in the following months entered the 1881–82 Lanarkshire Cup, debuting in the competition with a startling 7–0 win over Mosside. The club lost 5–1 in the second at Airdrie.
After winning 8 of 15 matches in 1881–82, the club joined the Scottish Football Association for the 1882–83 season[368] and entered the Scottish Cup. The club was drawn at home to fellow new boys Wishaw, and Wishaw won 2–0; Holytown's protest about rough play was not considered, although the Scottish FA warned Wishaw "to be more careful in the future" and returned the 10/- deposit to Holytown.[369]
The club lasted to the start of the 1883–84 season, entering a four-a-side tournament in August 1883 hosted by Hamilton Academical,[370] although it did not renew its subscription to the Scottish FA,[371] and seems to have disbanded soon afterwards.
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The club wore white jerseys and blue knickers.[372]
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The club's first ground was Thankerton Park.[373] On turning senior, it moved to Townhead Park, 15 minutes' walk from Holytown railway station.[374]
The Govan club claimed a foundation date of 1876, with its earliest reported matches coming from the 1877–78 season,[375] and, although never particularly active (it only played 10 matches in 1879–80), in 1880 joined the Scottish Football Association. Its one tie in the Scottish Cup, at South Western in September 1880, was a 7–0 defeat, Ingram conceding the first goal after 2 minutes, although Ingram's passing game was praised for its neatness.[376]
The club entered the 1881–82 Scottish Cup and was drawn to play Athole, but both clubs had dissolved before the tie could take place. [377]
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The club described its colours as blue and white, without giving any more specific detail.[378]
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Ingram played at Argyle Park, near Paisley Road toll.[379] It later became the ground of Fairfield.[380]
The first reference to the Ayrshire club is of a New Year's Day fixture against "Ashbank" in 1886;[381] however there is no record of the club playing a match until New Year's Day 1887, when the Thistle beat Paisley Anchor 4–2.[382]
The club played at a junior level in 1887–88, including a 15–0 win over Avonhaugh,[383] and at the close of the season the Thistle was invited to play in the Kilmarnock Charity Cup. Thistle beat Kilmarnock Rangers 5–2 at Hurlford,[384] and, after Kilbirnie cried off a semi-final against Hurlford, the Thistle sent a last-minute scratch team to play instead, losing 4–1, but earning some funds for charity.[385] In the "official" semi-final, Thistle held Kilmarnock to a 0–0 draw at Rugby Park.[386] Kilmarnock won the replay 5–1,[387] but ended up playing in an impromptu final - again against Hurlford - after Kilmarnock was unable to form an XI. Hurlford won 2–0 but Thistle received praise for its willingness to help at the last moment for a second time.[388]
Given its good showings in a difficult environment, the Athletic joined the Scottish Football Association in August,[389] and entered the 1888–89 Scottish Cup. However the club scratched from its first round tie with Maybole,[390] key player Andrew Campbell[391] having been recruited by Kilmarnock,[392] and indeed does not seem ever to have played as a senior club. The club was duly struck off the Scottish FA roll at the end of the season.[393]
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The club wore blue and black hooped shirts and white knickers.[394]
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The club's ground was simply given out as being the Public Ground.[395]
The short-lived club from Kilsyth was formed in April 1890,[396] signing up 22 members inside one week at the start of the 1890–91 season.[397] The club affiliated to the Stirlingshire Association, so played in the Stirlingshire Cup from 1890–91 to 1892–93, and also entered the Scottish Qualifying Cup for the latter two seasons; it lost every tie it played, usually heavily, the nadir being a 12–2 defeat by Dunipace in the 1891–92 Stirlingshire,[398] a month after only losing to the same club 4–3 in the Qualifying.[399] The club's second and last Qualifying Cup tie, a 6–0 defeat to Camelon, got worse after the match, as Camelon complained about being overcharged its share of expenses for the tie by 13s 6d.[400]
The club did get revenge over Dunipace in the Kilsyth Charity Cup in 1892–93, with a 3–0 win;[401] the club had reached the final the previous year, losing 4–1 to Smithstone Hibs.[402]
Given that Kilsyth already had the Kilsyth Wanderers F.C. as well as Smithstone, there was little chance of the Standard succeeding, and it was wound up in August 1893.[403] The name was later used by a juvenile club.[404]
The club was founded in 1885, the same year as two other clubs in Kirkintilloch, namely Athletic and Central.[407] The club's earliest recorded match was at home to Falkirk Harp at the start of 1886, but was ill-omened on two accounts - firstly, the only goal of the game (scored by Falkirk) was disputed and never resolved, and secondly, a storm ended the game after an hour.[408]
Athletic got the jump on the other sides by joining the Scottish Football Association almost immediately, while Central and Harp waited until 1886.[409] Although by 1886 the Harp was the biggest of the three sides, it was further restricted by its being a club for the Irish diaspora, rather than the wider constituency available to the other clubs; indeed its friendly matches were often against other "Celtic" clubs, such as Glasgow Harp,[410] Springburn Harp,[411] and Lambhill Harp.[412]
The other major problem for the club progressing in the senior game was its location in Dumbartonshire, which had three of the strongest teams in the world in the county. With the Scottish Cup being drawn on a regional basis, the Harp was particularly unlucky with its two entries; in the 1886–87 Scottish Cup it was drawn to visit Renton, and in the 1887–88 Scottish Cup it was drawn to face the previous year's semi-finalists Vale of Leven.
The club therefore scratched from both ties,[413] only 7 of the side turning up to the Vale of Leven tie,[414] so the clubs played out a friendly instead.[415] The club nearly fell apart completely in the aftermath of the Vale of Leven fiasco, two of its best players (Keenan and Friel) joining Athletic.[416]
It also never entered the Dumbartonshire Cup, so never took part in a competitive match at a national or county level. Its only competitive football came in the Kirkintilloch Jubilee Cup, for the first and second XIs in the town itself, and first held in 1886–87 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.[417] Even in that the club proved to be behind Central and Athletic; its only win came against Kirkintilloch Rob Roy in 1888–89, and it lost the final to Athletic 10–0.[418][419]
The club withdrew from senior football when not renewing its Scottish FA membership in August 1888,[420] and the defeat to the Athletic in the Jubilee Cup final seems to have been the club's last match. An unrelated Junior club started up in 1894.[421]
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The club wore green jerseys with a heart on the left breast, green hose, and "dark" knickers.[422]
Lanark entered the 1881–82 Scottish Cup and Lanarkshire Cup, but scratched from both competitions to Clarkston. [428] Lanark did eventually visit Clarkston for a friendly in January 1882, but lost 6–0.[429]
Never an active or large club - in 1880–81 it only had 29 members and played 10 matches[430] - it was struck from the Scottish FA roll in August 1882.[431] It was still active in the months afterwards, the first two XIs playing a practice match on the Racecourse in October,[432] but it did not play competitive football again.
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Lanark wore navy blue jerseys, white knickers with a blue stripe, and red hose.[433]
The club, from Lochmaben village in Dumfriesshire, was founded in 1881, and joined the Scottish Football Association in 1882, having won 3 and lost 4 of its first season's matches.[438] One of the wins had been against Queen of the South Wanderers,[439] although owing to a mix-up as to which side had been invited to Lochmaben, the Wanderers sent its third XI, much to the dismay of the Lochmaben players, who threatened to walk off unless the first XI attended; which persuaded the Wanderers thirds to masquerade as the firsts, in order to get a game.[440]
Lochmaben entered the 1882–83 Scottish Cup, and was drawn against the Wanderers, but by now the players had realized that the first XI was much too strong for the Lochmaben side, and scratched.[441] The club had not been helped by a number of players from its first season having left the village before 1882–83, as was demonstrated by an 11–1 at home Moffat in the first round of the Churchill Cup, conceding 8 in the first half.[442]
It did not renew its Scottish FA subscription[443] and it withdrew from the 1883–84 Churchill Cup. The club did continue playing into the 1884–85 season, albeit at a very minor level.[444] The next senior club in the town - Rising Thistle - would be even more unsuccessful for longer.
The Ayrshire club was the second club founded in Maybole, after Carrick. The earliest recorded match for the club is a 6–1 win over the obscure Ayr Bonnie Doon club in February 1877.[447]
The club continued to the end of the 1877–78 season,[450] but did not enter the first Ayrshire Cup that season, and seems to have disbanded afterwards. The Maybole Thistle name was revived in 1884 for a junior club.[451]
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The club wore "light navy blue" jerseys, white knickers, and blue and white hose.[452]
The unfortunate Oakfield club was one of many which emerged in Greenock, Renfrewshire, in the 1870s and 1880s. Oakfield was earlier than most, founded in 1877, and playing its first match in October that year, albeit fielding 13 players against 11 of the East End club of Greenock.[454]
Oakfield joined the Scottish Football Association in 1880, having won 6 and lost 5 of its 11 matches in 1879–80; however, before playing its 1880–81 Scottish Cup first round tie against Netherlee, the club was forced to scratch, having just lost use of its ground, and therefore had to lie dormant for the season.[455] However the club never re-started,[456] players having found berths elsewhere - Gregg, Millar, Aitken, Barbour,[457] and Fleming in particular to Morton, mostly in the second XI.[458]
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The club wore navy jerseys, white knickers, and red stockings.[459]
The Orchard club was from Oatlands, Glasgow to the south-east of the city centre. It was founded in 1881, and joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1883.[461] Orchard won its first Scottish Cup tie 4–2 at Possilpark in September 1883,[462] but lost 8–1 to Partick Thistle in the second round, although the tie was closer than the score suggested, with the Orchard having a lot of late pressure.[463] On the same day as the second round tie, the Orchard second XI lost 15–0 at the 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers in the Second XI Cup.[464]
With only 30 members in 1884, the club was the smallest in Glasgow, but it had quite a successful first season as a senior club, with 9 wins in 15 matches.[465] However it scratched from its entry to the 1884–85 Scottish Cup and in August 1885 it was struck off the Scottish FA roll.[466]
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The club wore red and black jerseys with white knickers.[467]
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The club played at Albert Park[468] in Braehead Street, a 2 minute walk from the Rutherglen Road car terminus.[469]
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This is a list of association football clubs which entered the Scottish Cup between 1873 and 1894 when the Scottish Qualifying Cup was introduced and which lack the prominence for their Wikipedia pages Contents 1 1st Dumfries Rifle Volunteers F C 1 1 History 1 2 Colours 1 3 Ground 2 10th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers F C 2 1 History 2 2 Colours 2 3 Ground 3 Annfield F C 4 Ardrossan F C 4 1 History 4 2 Ground 4 3 External links 5 Blairadam F C 5 1 History 5 2 Colours 5 3 Ground 6 Blairgowrie F C 6 1 History 6 2 Colours 6 3 Ground 7 Blairvaddick F C 7 1 History 7 2 Ground 8 Bridgend Athletic F C 8 1 History 8 2 Colours 8 3 Ground 9 Burnside Partick F C 9 1 History 9 2 Colours 9 3 Ground 10 Caledonia F C Greenock 10 1 History 10 2 Colours 10 3 Ground 11 Cambridge F C 12 Cartha A C 12 1 History 12 2 Colours 12 3 Ground 13 Catrine Thistle F C 13 1 History 13 2 Colours 13 3 Ground 14 Cathcart Volunteers F C 14 1 History 14 2 Colours 14 3 Ground 15 Chryston F C 15 1 History 15 2 Colours 15 3 Ground 16 Coatbridge F C 16 1 History 16 2 Colours 16 3 Ground 17 Cyrus F C 17 1 History 17 2 Colours 17 3 Ground 18 Dumfries Academicals F C 18 1 History 18 2 Colours 18 3 Ground 19 Dumfries Harp F C 19 1 History 19 2 Colours 19 3 Ground 20 Dunach F C 20 1 History 20 2 Colours 20 3 Ground 21 Dunkeld F C 21 1 History 21 2 Colours 21 3 Ground 22 Dunmore F C 22 1 History 22 2 Ground 23 Duntocher F C 24 Eastern F C 1884 24 1 History 24 2 Colours 24 3 Ground 25 Eastern Athletic F C 1879 25 1 History 25 2 Colours 25 3 Ground 26 Eastern Athletic F C 1884 26 1 History 26 2 Colours 26 3 Ground 26 4 Notable player 27 Fort William F C 1883 27 1 History 27 2 Colour 27 3 Ground 28 Fraserburgh Wanderers F C 28 1 History 28 2 Colours 28 3 Ground 29 Gladstonians F C 29 1 History 29 2 Colours 29 3 Ground 30 Glencairn F C Edinburgh 30 1 History 30 2 Colours 30 3 Ground 31 Glencairn F C Glasgow 31 1 History 31 2 Colours 31 3 Ground 32 Greenock Rovers F C 32 1 History 32 2 Colours 32 3 Ground 33 Hamilton Hibernians F C 33 1 History 33 2 Colours 33 3 Ground 33 4 Notable player 34 Hawthorn F C 34 1 History 34 2 Colours 34 3 Ground 35 Holytown F C 35 1 History 35 2 Colours 35 3 Ground 36 Ingram F C 36 1 History 36 2 Colours 36 3 Ground 37 Kilmarnock Thistle F C 37 1 History 37 2 Colours 37 3 Ground 38 Kilsyth Standard F C 38 1 History 38 2 Colours 38 3 Ground 39 Kirkintilloch Harp F C 39 1 History 39 2 Colours 39 3 Ground 40 Lanark F C 1878 40 1 History 40 2 Colours 40 3 Ground 41 Lochmaben F C 1881 41 1 History 41 2 Colours 41 3 Ground 42 Maybole Thistle F C 42 1 History 42 2 Colours 42 3 Ground 43 Oakfield F C 43 1 History 43 2 Colours 43 3 Ground 44 Orchard F C 44 1 History 44 2 Colours 44 3 Ground 45 Our Boys F C Glasgow 45 1 History 45 2 Colours 45 3 Ground 46 Rangers Sanquhar F C 47 Shettleston Swifts F C 47 1 History 47 2 Colours 47 3 Ground 48 Springburn Hibernians F C 48 1 History 48 2 Colours 48 3 Ground 49 Vale of Annan F C 49 1 History 49 2 Colours 49 3 Ground 50 Vale of Calder F C 50 1 History 50 2 Colours 50 3 Ground 51 Waverley F C Kirkintilloch 51 1 History 51 2 Colours 51 3 Ground 52 West End Athletic F C 52 1 History 52 2 Colours 52 3 Ground 53 Wick Rovers F C 53 1 History 53 2 Colours 53 3 Ground 54 Woodside F C 54 1 History 54 2 Colours 54 3 Ground 55 External links 56 References1st Dumfries Rifle Volunteers F C edit1st D R V Founded1881Dissolved1883GroundNoblehill ParkHon PresidentLt Col W E MalcolmMatch SecretaryPte Thomas CairnsHon SecretarySgt Major James Kennedy nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The club was founded on 10 December 1881 1 out of the 1st Dumfriesshire Rifle Volunteers a company in the Volunteer movement of the British Army The Volunteers included sporting activities within their purview and newspapers often carried reports of such activities The growth of football in Scotland especially thanks to Queen s Park F C and the success of army teams in England such as the Royal Engineers A F C encouraged regiments to form football clubs as part of the physical regimen The 1st D R V was re organized under the Royal Scots Fusiliers in July 1881 2 and the football side seems to have emerged as a result of a larger pool of players with 50 from which to choose The club tried to join the Scottish Football Association in June 1882 but was turned down for not having a private ground 3 It was finally admitted two months later 4 in time to enter the 1882 83 Scottish Cup It had a lucky draw in the first round as scheduled opponents Dumfries Academicals scratched 5 In the second it was drawn to play one of the two strongest sides in the region Queen of the South Wanderers at Nunholm and was 3 2 up at half time but lost 5 3 6 The club did not enter the Churchill Cup for local sides and seems to have given up the game not renewing its Scottish FA membership at the end of the season 7 The Volunteer movement was already catered for by the 5th K R V which had attracted a much greater membership notably the 5th K R V s second XI had beaten the 1st D R V s first XI 5 1 in November 1882 8 Colours edit The club s colours were black and yellow Ground edit The club played at Noblehill Park near Dumfries 9 10th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers F C edit10th L R V Founded1884Dissolved1885GroundBraehead ParkSecretaryAlexander Stewart nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The 10th L R V was a volunteer regiment football club based in south west Glasgow It was founded in 1884 10 after most of the volunteer sides in Glasgow had ceased playing senior football The 10th was formed out of the Glasgow Highlanders which had been founded in 1868 The regiment had briefly played football when called the 105th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers in the mid 1870s 11 The club optimistically joined the Scottish Football Association in 1885 12 but scratched from its Scottish Cup entry when drawn to face St Andrew s 13 Perhaps accepting it was out of its depth in a nearly professional age the club did not renew its Scottish FA membership 14 indeed there are no records that the club ever played senior football outside a military environment Colours edit The club wore navy blue jerseys 42nd tartan 15 knickers and red stockings 16 Ground edit The club played at Braehead Park on the Rutherglen Road later the home of Thistle 17 Annfield F C editAnnfieldDissolved1881The Annfield club was drawn in the Glasgow section of the 1881 82 Scottish Cup against Eastern Athletic the club had no prior history and there is no record of it joining the Scottish Football Association so its entry was surprising The result of the tie is unclear as the North British Daily Mail had two reports one saying that Annfield had won 2 1 at home the other that it had drawn 1 1 away 18 and the Glasgow Herald had that the tie was a draw but at Annfield s ground 19 Whatever the score was the tie was due to be replayed but the club dissolved before it could take place 20 An Annfield Thistle is recorded as playing in Glasgow in 1880 and this may be the same club 21 Ardrossan F C editArdrossanFounded1874Dissolved1876GroundPaisley StreetMatch SecretaryRobert M CubbinCaptainH BarclayHistory edit The first match in the town was played in September 1870 and featured the Ardrossan Castle club demonstrating the sport at the head of Glasgow Street 22 on 24 September 1870 the Castle club beat the Ardrossan club 1 0 although it is not clear whether the match was under rugby or Association rules the match featured touchdowns which were part of the out dated association set of laws which Queen s Park had been using 23 The match appears to have been a one off as the formal foundation of the club took place in September 1874 24 the first reported match being a defeat to Kilmarnock the following week 25 M Auslane who had played for the Castle in the 1870 match was vice captain for the Ardrossan and Hughes who had played for Ardrossan in the match was also a member of the new club The club s correspondence address was care of Barclay amp Son Shipyards suggesting its members were shipbuilders 26 It entered the Scottish Cup on two occasions in 1875 76 and 1876 77 but withdrew from the competition both times before playing 27 Its final reported match was a win over the Kilbirnie in April 1876 28 Ground edit The club played at a ground between Glasgow Street 29 and Paisley Street 30 External links edit Ardrossan Football Clubs from 1870 onwardsBlairadam F C editBlairadamFounded1882Dissolved1891GroundKeltyHon SecretaryJames StewartMatch SecretaryT HunterCaptainDavid Rennie 31 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The club was founded in Kelty in Fifeshire 1882 as Blairadam Swifts 32 taking its name from Blairadam House and it was one of the founder members of the Fifeshire Football Association 33 It played in the Fife Cup for most seasons from the competition s start in 1882 83 to 1890 91 but never won a tie 34 It did reach the last 4 in the competition s first iteration but only after the team to which it lost in the first round St Leonard s fielded ineligible players and rather than re playing the tie ceded it to Blairadam 35 with 8 entrants the club was automatically advanced to the semi final The club dropped the Swifts epithet in 1883 36 and the club s official name became simply Blairadam but it was sometimes stylized as Blair Adam Blairadam was admitted to the Scottish Football Association in August 1890 37 and it entered the 1890 91 Scottish Cup It was drawn away to Bo ness F C but scratched 38 It also scratched from the Fife Cup that year when drawn to face Cowdenbeath 39 and appears to have been one of the 18 clubs struck from the roll in 1891 40 Colours edit The club s colours were navy and light blue 41 Ground edit The club s ground was never given with any greater precision than Kelty All traces had gone by the 1892 Ordnance Survey Blairgowrie F C editBlairgowrieFounded1880Dissolved1882GroundGames ParkMatch SecretaryWm MacDonald nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The Blairgowrie Football Club from Blairgowrie and Rattray was formed in 1880 It suffered a blow almost straight after its formation captain Christie breaking his collarbone in training 42 After playing five matches in its first season with a record of 2 wins 1 draw 2 defeats scoring 4 goals and conceding 9 it joined the Scottish Football Association in 1881 43 The club played one tie in the Scottish Cup a 4 0 defeat to Coupar Angus in the first round in 1881 82 The final recorded game for the club was a 5 0 defeat at neighbours Rattray in February 1882 considered more a series of tripping and foul charging 44 and the club was removed from the Scottish FA membership roll in 1882 45 Colours edit The club wore navy and white 1 hooped jerseys and hose with white knickers and anachronistcally included a navy and white striped cap 46 Ground edit The club s ground was Games Park adjoining Blairgowrie House 47 at the west end of Blairgowrie about half a mile from Blairgowrie railway station thanks to the generosity of Mr Macpherson of Blairgowrie 48 Blairvaddick F C editBlairvaddickFounded1886Dissolved1887GroundIbroxHistory edit nbsp 1886 87 Scottish Cup 1st Round Thistle 13 0 Blairvaddick line ups Glasgow Evening News 11 September 1886Blairvaddick F C was a short lived association football club from Govan in Glasgow It was admitted as a member of the Scottish Football Association in 1886 49 The club appears to have been the footballing section of a cricket club 50 51 The club s first match was a 5 0 defeat to Rutherglen on 4 September 1886 four of the goals coming in the last 15 minutes 52 A week later the club played in the Scottish Cup at Thistle and was hammered 13 0 the score was only 1 0 in the 43rd minute and 2 0 at half time 53 The club s friendly matches included a home defeat to a 9 man Dykebar 54 and a 9 2 loss to the Hamilton Academical second XI 55 shortly after which the club was the victim of a burglary after one Donald M Millan on two days stole a football three guernseys a pair of boots three hair combs and 48 pieces for a draughts board for which he was sentenced to 3 months in prison 56 Blairvaddick finally picked up a win over Clydesdale in November by 1 goal to 0 57 Blairvaddick at least finished the season on something of a high although it lost to Govan Athletic in the Govan Charity Cup it beat Yoker in the Govan Jubilee Cup a trophy for which just those two clubs originally competed 58 The original match at Summerton Athletic s Victoria Park was a six goal thriller which Yoker came from 2 0 down to 3 2 up and Blairvaddick rescued the game with a combined rush just before time 59 The replay at the same venue was won for Blairvaddick thanks to a late winner from Hughes 60 However the success was Blairvaddick s last match it was struck from the Scottish FA membership in 1887 and it gave up on football 61 although continued with the cricket 62 Ground edit The club played at Ibrox 63 64 Bridgend Athletic F C editBridgend AthleticNickname s the Bridgenders 65 the AthleticsFounded1885Dissolved1889GroundRecreation GroundMatch SecretaryWilliam MillerHon SecretaryWilliam Douglas nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home colours nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Change coloursHistory edit The earliest match recorded for the Perth club is in March 1885 against the Perth Swifts 66 At the end of the month the club resolved to join the Perthshire Association for the following season 67 its first appearance in the Perthshire Cup in 1885 86 ended in a 10 1 defeat in the first round to the Vale of Teith 68 The club entered the county cup until 1888 89 although the club never won a tie its only success coming in its final entry when Guildtown Wanderers scratched to it in the first round 69 The club joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1888 its name styled as Bridge End Athletic Perth 70 This entitled the club to enter the 1888 89 Scottish Cup but it lost in the first round 6 1 at home to Coupar Angus the Athletics scoring its goal in the first half but conceding three in each 71 Its run as a senior club was brief in 1889 the club was struck from the Scottish FA register 72 and the club gave up football owing to want of support 73 Colours edit The club originally registered alternate sets of colours with the Scottish FA maroon or white 74 In 1889 it registered a combination of the two 75 Ground edit It played at the Bridgend Recreation Ground 76 Burnside Partick F C editBurnside Partick Founded1878Dissolved1879GroundClarendon ParkHon SecretaryF Mackay nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit Burnside Partick F C was formed in Partick Glasgow in 1878 out of a cricket club 77 It entered the 1878 79 Scottish Cup and was the lucky club in the Glasgow section to receive a bye into the second round where it was drawn to visit Alexandra Athletic the A A C won 3 0 Burnside not even managing a shot 78 The club does not seem to have played another senior match drawn to face Ailsa in the 1879 80 Scottish Cup the Scottish FA recorded that the club had dissolved 79 There was one more recorded match for a Burnside Partick club being a defeat at Moffat in January 1881 although this probably refers to a separate club 80 The club was not related to a club from Paisley of the same name which existed in the 1880s 81 Colours edit The club wore royal blue and scarlet jerseys blue knickers and stockings of any colour 82 Ground edit The club s home was Clarendon Park opposite the Gas Works tram station 83 Caledonia F C Greenock editNot to be confused with Caledonian F C or Caledonian F C Glasgow CaledoniaFounded1880Dissolved1884GroundWellington ParkChairmanMr J Orr 84 Hon SecretaryNeil GalbraithMatch SecretaryDonald Crawford nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit nbsp 1881 82 Caledonia Football Club fixtures Greenock Telegraph 11 October 1881The short lived Renfrewshire club was founded in 1880 It joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1883 85 and entered the 1883 84 Scottish Cup given the club had only played 10 matches in 1882 83 winning only four 86 this was an ambitious move Caledonia had a friendly relationship with the Paisley side West End providing it with 5 of its players for a second XI fixture in November 1881 87 In the first round it lost 6 0 at St Mirren 88 The next month Caledonia lost 4 0 at Northern Greenock in its only Renfrewshire Cup tie 89 Caledonia was plainly out of its depth with only 35 members making it the smallest side in the county and having St Mirren Northern and Southern as bigger sides in Greenock itself After one season as a senior club Caledonia did not renew its subscription to the Scottish FA 90 and did not play again Colours edit The club played in all white 91 Ground edit The club played at Wellington Park formerly the home ground of a club of the same name 92 and later the home of Greenock Rangers 93 Cambridge F C editCambridgeFounded1885 Dissolved1886GroundMoray ParkAlthough there is no evidence as to when the club was admitted to the Scottish Football Association or indeed that it played more than a couple of matches before the 1885 86 season 94 the club entered the 1885 86 Scottish Cup It beat Southern Athletic 2 1 in the first round of the competition 95 having to play the tie twice after Athletics protested about the non registration of several players 96 The club played St Andrew s in the second round at Moray Park 97 but lost 6 0 98 There was only one other match for the club which gained any major attention against Tollcross and that was to announce the match had been called off 99 The club s final recorded match was a 12 0 defeat at the Thistle 2nd XI in the Glasgow North Eastern Cup in January 1886 100 The club was struck from the Scottish FA membership roll in August 1886 101 Cartha A C editCarthaNickname s the AthleticFounded1890Dissolved1891GroundPollok ParkHon SecretaryWilliam AllanMatch SecretaryJames Kirkland nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The Cartha club from the Pollok area of Glasgow was founded in 1890 out of a cricket club which was based in Pollok Park 102 The club s secretary James Kirkland had previously held the role at Southern Athletic 103 so may have been recruited for the role in order to ensure fixtures for the new club The club was properly the Cartha Athletic Club 104 and was often referred to as Cartha Athletic 105 but the registered football name was Cartha The club s flirtation with football was a short one It ambitiously joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1890 106 but scratched from its 1890 91 Scottish Cup tie with Carfin Shamrock 107 Despite a startling 7 1 win at the United Abstainers in November 1890 108 the club does not appear to have played football at all in 1891 Colours edit The club wore white jerseys with a maroon sash and dark knickers 109 probably navy serge which was available at 2 6 per pair Ground edit The club played at Pollok Park 110 which had previously been used by among others Pollokshields Athletic Catrine Thistle F C editCatrine ThistleNickname s the ThistleFounded1890Dissolved1892GroundAlexandria ParkMatch SecretaryD J Manson nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The Thistle was from the town of Catrine Ayrshire an earlier club of the same name played in the 1880 81 season 111 112 but this particular club is first recorded in 1890 113 By May 1891 the club had won 28 of its 36 matches 114 and in August 1891 it joined the Scottish Football Association Catrine only played three competitive matches as a senior club Its 1891 92 Scottish Cup first preliminary round tie at Dalry was abortive as the official referee did not turn up so the clubs played out a friendly which the Thistle won 4 3 115 Dalry had evidently learnt its lesson because when the tie was properly played off it won 5 0 116 The other two matches were against Stewarton Cunninghame in the Ayrshire Cup after a 4 4 draw Stewarton won the replay 7 5 117 The club left the Scottish FA in August 1892 118 The club played out the 1891 92 season finishing with an 8 0 win against Kilmarnock Strollers 119 but after being struck from the Scottish FA roll in August never seems to have played again 120 Colours edit The club played in dark blue jerseys and knickers 121 Ground edit The club s ground was Alexandria Park 122 The largest recorded crowd was 1 500 for a friendly with a Celtic reserve side 123 Cathcart Volunteers F C editCathcart VolunteersFounded1893Dissolved1895GroundHazelwood ParkMatch SecretaryH G Hunter nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The Renfrewshire club was formed in 1893 shortly after the demise of Cathcart F C and played its first match against a Helensburgh side at home that March The Volunteers enjoyed an 8 1 victory with 8 different scorers M Culloch J Campbell Gardiner Brass Harley Gairey R Campbell and an own goal 124 The club joined the Scottish Football Association five months later and lost narrowly to Lanemark in the first preliminary round of the Scottish Cup 4 3 in a replay in the original tie the Volunteers came from 3 1 down to draw 3 3 despite losing a man to injury 125 However in the Renfrewshire Cup the club lost 13 2 at Abercorn 126 The club entered the Scottish Cup in 1894 95 but scratched when paired with a strong Hurlford side in the first preliminary round 127 and the club s last reported match was a 4 3 home defeat to a touring Bohemians F C in October 1894 128 At the end of the season it was struck from the membership roll 129 Colours edit The club wore maroon jerseys 130 Ground edit The club s ground was Hazelwood Park 131 Chryston F C editChrystonFounded1881Dissolved1886GroundMillbrae ParkHon SecretaryJames AngusMatch SecretaryThomas M IsaacCaptainThomas Calder 132 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The club was from the village of Chryston in Lanarkshire It was founded in 1881 133 In August 1884 having won 16 of 22 matches the previous season and with the club in a highly prosperous condition 134 it joined the Scottish Football Association 135 It entered the 1884 85 Scottish Cup but lost 8 1 at home to West Benhar 136 The club s senior run only lasted one season it not paying its subscription to the Scottish FA for 1885 86 137 although the club did play in the Lanarkshire Cup for the only time In the first round the club came close to pulling off a shock holding Hamilton Academical to a 1 1 draw away from home 138 and tried unsuccessfully to claim the tie via protest 139 The replay also held at South Street saw the Acas re assert their superiority winning 11 1 140 The final scheduled game known for the club was at Union in Dumbarton on Boxing Day 1885 141 although the name was later revived for Junior sides Colours edit The club wore navy and red hooped jerseys and hose and navy knickers 142 Ground edit The club s ground was Millbrae Park a 10 minute walk from Garnkirk railway station 143 Coatbridge F C editCoatbridgeFounded1885Dissolved1889GroundBlair Lodge ParkMatch SecretaryJames RossHon SecretaryA Brock nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit Although an earlier Coatbridge F C had existed briefly in the mid 1870s 144 the earliest match recorded for this club is a win over the Waverley club by 2 0 in September 1885 145 Despite bearing the name of the Lanarkshire town the club kept a low profile and did not even enter the Lanarkshire Cup However the Drumpellier club stopped playing football at the end of the 1887 88 season and Coatbridge accepted the chance to take over its place as the third senior club in Coatbridge 146 for the start of the 1888 89 season 147 The club therefore entered both the 1888 89 Scottish Cup and the Lanarkshire Cup for the first time The club lost 5 0 at Cambuslang Hibs to such general indifference that even the Coatbridge Express did not mention the score and the club did not turn up for its county cup first round tie at Carfin Shamrock 148 Unsurprisingly given such apathy from and about the club it ceased operations before the next season 149 Colours edit The club wore 1 black and white hoops 150 Ground edit The club played at Blair Lodge Park 151 replacing Drumpellier After the club s end the ground was taken over fully by Junior side Coatbridge Hibernians 152 who had been sharing the ground previously Cyrus F C editCyrusFounded1882Dissolved1885GroundCyrus ParkMatch SecretaryJohn Campbell nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The short lived Glaswegian club claimed to have been founded in 1882 In 1884 after playing one match in the 1883 84 season a 3 3 draw it joined the Scottish Football Association 153 and entered the 1884 85 Scottish Cup After a 7 0 defeat at Possilpark 154 no more is heard of the club until its removal from the Scottish FA register the next season 155 Colours edit The club wore dark blue jerseys and knickers 156 Ground edit The club played on a private ground at Cyrus Park on the Cumbernauld Road 3 minutes walk from Alexandra Park railway station 157 The ground was probably part of Alexandra Park itself or one of the two open areas between the park and the Cumbernauld Road Dumfries Academicals F C editDumfries AcademicalsFounded1881Dissolved1883GroundNunholmHon SecretaryDavid WyperMatch SecretaryJ M Tennent nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit Although a one off rugby union match is recorded for a Dumfries Academicals side in 1879 158 the first match for a properly formed Dumfries Academicals club also to rugby rules was against the former pupils of Grosvenor College Carlisle in October 1881 The Academicals side was made up mostly but not exclusively of former pupils of the Dumfries Academy 159 The only goal of the game was scored by Tennant who was the secretary of the association side The Academicals hosted an association match at Nunholm between Queen s Park and a Dumfries select 160 in February 1882 and perhaps seeing the success of this the crowd was estimated at 2 000 161 joined the Scottish Football Association in June 1882 162 Its only appearance of note was in the draw for the 1882 83 Scottish Cup withdrawing when paired with fellow new members the 1st Dumfries Rifle Volunteers 163 The club did play a handful of matches in 1882 83 including a creditale 7 4 defeat to the 5th K R V in March 164 but left the Scottish FA at the end of the season 165 Colours edit The club played in dark blue 166 Ground edit The club s ground Nunholm 167 would be used by Queen of the South Wanderers from 1883 168 Dumfries Harp F C editDumfries HarpFounded1889Dissolved1890GroundMildamheadHon SecretaryMichael M GillMatch SecretaryJames King nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The first references to the club are from August 1889 when the new club took part in a five a side football contest at the Dumfries recreation grounds 169 The new club ambitiously joined the Scottish Football Association the same month 170 and entered the 1889 90 Scottish Cup The club drew a bye in the first round but faced Queen of the South Wanderers in the second round at the latter s Cresswell Park The match was considered a foregone conclusion as the Wanderers junior side had beaten the Harp 6 3 in September However the Harp with the wind and sun behind them took a surprise early lead and the score was still 1 1 at half time The Wanderers superior experience told but only towards the end of the game when it ran up late goals for a flattering 5 1 win 171 The only other competitive match the club played was in the Churchill Cup for southern counties sides in November a 7 1 defeat against Dumfries with left wing M Kinnon scoring the Harp goal when two down 172 The club was invited to take part in the Southern Counties Charity Cup but its 12 1 defeat at the 5th K R V to very little interest and two of the Harp only turning up 20 minutes into the game seems to have been so crushing as to finish the club 173 It was duly struck from the SFA register in 1890 174 Colours edit The club wore green jerseys and white knickers 175 Ground edit The club played at Mildamhead also the ground of Dumfries 176 Dunach F C editDunachFounded1889Dissolved1894GroundKilmoreSecretaryPeter Fletcher nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit nbsp 1893 94 Scottish Cup 1st preliminary round Oban Rangers 1 4 Dunach Oban Times 6 September 1893The club from Oban in Argyllshire took its name from a nearby clan estate 177 The first reference is of a home match with the Oban F C second XI in January 1889 despite Oban bolstering its side with three first teamers and F Edmondson and C N MacDonald of the home side only being 14 the game ended 1 0 to Dunach 178 Dunach made the ambitious decision to join the Scottish Football Association in 1893 and won its first qualifying round match in the 1893 94 Scottish Cup 4 1 at Oban Rangers 179 In the second round the club lost 3 1 to Inveraray the match being played at the Rangers Mossfield Park The score was 1 1 at half time but Inveraray scored a freak crucial second goal when a parry from goalkeeper Smith hit the shoulder of half back MacDiarmid and ricocheted back through the goal 180 At the end of the season the club was struck off the Scottish FA roll along with neighbours Oban Rangers and the 1st Argyll Rifle Volunteers the difficulties in keeping up senior football with few fixtures in a remote area proving too great 181 Colours edit The club wore red shirts and white knickers 182 Ground edit The club s first ground was at Glenfeochan 183 As a senior club its ground was Kilmore near Oban 184 Dunkeld F C editFor the club founded in 1903 as Dunkeld F C see Dunkeld amp Birnam F C DunkeldFounded1879Dissolved1881GroundInver RoadMatch SecretaryDavid Meek Boath Thomas Christie nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The club was formed in Dunkeld in 1879 and by 1880 was the biggest club in Perthshire with 50 members 185 Its first recorded match was a draw against the Killin club of Weem 186 In 1880 81 the club played 7 matches with 5 wins 1 draw and 1 defeat 187 The defeat was in the second round of the 1880 81 Scottish Cup the club having been overlooked in the draw for the first round so allowed to take part from the second 188 where Dunkeld lost 4 0 at home to Rob Roy of Callander 189 indeed those goals were the only ones the club conceded all season The clubs were drawn together in the first round in the 1881 82 Scottish Cup but Dunkeld scratched 190 The issue may have been the availability of players four of its first choice members could not play in a friendly against Perseverance of Blairgowrie and Rattray in November 1881 although the club scored the only goal 191 and that seems to have been the club s final match Colours edit The club wore 1 hooped navy blue and white jerseys and hose 192 and originally blue and white caps and white trousers with a black and yellow badge 193 Ground edit The Duchess Dowager of Athole allowed the club to use a park on Inver Road half a mile from Dunkeld railway station 194 known as Little Dunkeld Dunmore F C editDunmoreFounded1876Dissolved1877GroundMagdalen GreenHon SecretaryT B CuthbertCaptainJ GorthyHistory edit The club was founded in 1876 as the second club in Dundee the year after St Clement s 195 The club s earliest reported match was a 5 0 win over the new Strathmore side although it was still behind St Clement s losing 2 1 in April 1877 196 and to the same club in its one Scottish Cup appearance in the second round in 1877 78 with Dunmore having to recruit players from elsewhere in the district to form a side 197 The Dunmore appears to have been taken over by St Clement s after that match as there are no further Dunmore matches recorded St Clement s had gradually been attracting players from Dunmore Robertson had swapped sides before the April 1877 fixture and Gourlay and Swan before the Scottish Cup tie with J M Lennan joining St Clement s soon afterwards 198 and them joining Lawson at Our Boys in 1878 199 Ground edit In common with many of the early clubs in the town Dunmore played at Magdalen Green 200 Duntocher F C editDuntocherFounded1886Dissolved1887GroundClydebankThe short lived Clydebank club made next to no impact on the game It only lasted one season joining the Scottish Football Association in 1886 201 and leaving it in 1887 202 The club had only two matches of note In the first round of the 1886 87 Scottish Cup when with the club 8 0 down to Dumbarton Athletic and the rain teeming down the Duntocher players walked off and abandoned the game 203 It reached the third round of the 1886 87 Dumbartonshire Cup thanks to a bye and second round opponents Dumbarton Hibernians not turning up to the club s Clydebank ground so Duntocher kicked off and claimed the tie 204 There had been some confusion over the venue as the Hibernians had choice of ground but could not host it themselves because their ground was not private 205 In the third round the club was easily beaten 3 0 at Union all three goals coming in a brief first half burst 206 Eastern F C 1884 editEasternFounded1884 Dissolved1886GroundSpringfield ParkMatch SecretaryJohn Robson Robertson 207 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit nbsp 1884 85 friendly Eastern Glasgow v Dunblane Stirling Observer 27 November 1884The Glasgow club was said to have formed in 1875 but the first recorded match for the club is a 4 0 defeat to Orchard in 1879 208 and there is then a gap until November 1884 when it played Dunblane at home Confusingly the club emerged at the same time as two revivals of the Eastern Athletic name in the same area of north eastern Glasgow In January 1885 the club entered the North Eastern Cup alongside Eastern Athletic 209 In the first round it beat Tollcross 5 2 210 but lost narrowly to the well established Northern 1 0 in the second 211 212 There is no record of the club joining the Scottish Football Association possibly because of confusion with Eastern Athletic which was listed as joining in 1884 Certainly Eastern entered the 1885 86 Scottish Cup demonstrating that the club had been accepted as a member but scratched after being drawn at G U Y M C A A C 213 Eastern played regular friendlies through the year 214 and with a membership of 50 had enough members to play three XIs 215 Eastern was noted as having been removed from the membership list in 1886 this time there being no reference to Athletic suggesting both clubs had left at the same time 216 The name was used in 1886 by a junior club 217 Colours edit The club wore navy jerseys with white knickers 218 Ground edit The club played at Springfield Park in Dalmarnock Road 219 Eastern Athletic F C 1879 editEastern Athletic 1 Founded1879Dissolved1882GroundCarntyne ParkPresidentJ G Hendry 220 Match SecretaryJ C Millar 221 Thos CameronHon SecretaryColin MacFarlane 222 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The club from the Parkhead area of Glasgow was founded in February 1879 the club s captain was one A M Gregor 223 Its earliest recorded match was a 2 0 win over the Strathclyde club at the start of the 1879 80 season 224 The club was an entrant to the first Royal Standard and Grand National Hall competition in 1879 80 for clubs in the Gorbals area of Glasgow 225 However the club s one tie in the competition was a disastrous 11 0 defeat to Oxford 226 Despite having a weak record as a junior club having obtained the use of a private ground it joined the Scottish Football Association in 1881 227 Its 36 members meant it was almost the smallest senior club in Glasgow only Battlefield was smaller and then only by one member 228 The club had a single season of senior football being struck from the roll in 1882 229 Its one entry to the Scottish Cup in 1881 82 saw it walk over the Annfield club after a match which is reported as ending in a draw or an Annfield win 230 but a replay being ordered in the first round 231 and withdraw when faced with South Western in the second 232 Colours edit The club wore navy shirts white knickers and blue stockings Ground edit The club moved to a new ground at Lower Carntyne Park in September 1880 the first match being a game against Albany that ended 2 2 one of the Albany goals being disputed 233 234 currently the site of the ground of Glasgow United Eastern Athletic F C 1884 editEastern Athletic 2 Nickname s Athletic 235 Founded1884Dissolved1886GroundCarntyne Dalmarnock ParkMatch SecretaryRobert Connell Alex Cuthbert nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 1884 85 colours nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 1885 86 coloursHistory edit nbsp Friendly match Eastern Athletic 2 2 Armadale Rutherglen Reformer 20 March 1885The club was founded in 1884 with 42 members confusingly at the same time as the foundation of Eastern F C in the same area of north east Glasgow Its first secretary Robert Connell was the former secretary of Pollokshields Athletic 236 Eastern Athletic was admitted to the Scottish Football Association in 1884 237 It entered the 1884 85 Scottish Cup but lost 9 1 to Partick in the first round 7 goals coming in the second half 238 The result came hot on the heels of an 11 0 defeat to Whitefield of Govan 239 The club entered the North Eastern Association in January 1885 at the same time as Eastern 240 Its one tie in the competition ended with a 2 0 to Springburn Hibernian in a second replay 241 242 The club was at least prominent enough to host Rangers at its new Dalmarnock ground at the end of the 1884 85 season 243 and had played 31 matches albeit only winning 10 However towards the end of the season the club was finding it difficult to field its first XI 244 and in 1885 86 it only played friendly matches Eastern Athletic is shown as joining but not leaving the Scottish FA conversely Eastern is shown as leaving 245 but not joining The similarity of geography and name of the two sides perhaps indicates that both joined in 1884 and both left in 1886 Certainly Eastern Athletic was playing senior football as late as April 1886 but there is no record of it doing so afterwards 246 and at least two of its players Stirling and Lawrie are recorded as playing for Shettleston in 1886 87 247 A one off record of a junior side in December 1886 is probably not the same club 248 Colours edit The club wore slightly different colours in its two seasons in 1884 85 navy and white jerseys and hose with navy trousers 249 and in 1885 86 changed the hoops to black 250 Ground edit In 1884 85 the club played at the same Carntyne Park 251 252 as the previous Eastern Athletic club 253 In 1885 86 the club moved a ground it called Dalmarnock Park 254 but which was actually Beechwood Park home of Thistle 255 Notable player edit Phil Clark who joined the club from Orchard and who later played for Hibernian 256 Fort William F C 1883 editFort WilliamFounded1883Dissolved1913GroundVictoria ParkHon PresidentEwen Cameron 257 Match secretaryD M Gillivray James A WilsonCaptainAlexander Jamieson 258 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp coloursHistory edit The first reference to a football match in Fort William Invernessshire was a match between Shopkeepers and Scribes in January 1880 259 The Fort William club however was formed in summer 1883 by young lads who wanted to promote a healthy and manly amusement for themselves and the earliest reference to a match is a defeat in May 1884 to a scratch team of Mr C Young 260 The remoteness of the town meant it was difficult to find matches and the club was refused entry to the Inverness Charity Cup in 1887 when the club played a friendly at Inverness Caledonian in April 1891 the club had to undertake a 12 hour steamer journey and the match had to be cut short by 30 minutes so the club could catch the return steamer 261 Nevertheless the club entered the Scottish Cup in 1891 92 and 1893 94 but to no avail as it did not play a tie a series of mutual scratchings following The club continued its activities on a low key level until at least 1913 playing over the summer rather than a traditional winter season 262 but it does not seem to have re emerged after the First World War Colour edit The club originally wore red and white jerseys and hose and blue knickers 263 264 In 1893 it changed its shirts to white 265 Ground edit The club first played on land near the market stance given to the club by Mr D P McDonald 266 the club had previously practised on fields near Glen Nevis 267 By 1887 it was playing at Victoria Park 268 269 provided by Mrs Cameron Campbell of Monzie who even paid for the fences 270 Fraserburgh Wanderers F C editFraserburgh WanderersNickname s the WanderersFounded1890Dissolved1905GroundBellslea ParkPresidentWilliam Mackie 271 SecretaryRobert Guthrie nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp coloursHistory edit nbsp Wanderers William Fraser Football Post 24 September 1904The club was formed in October 1890 under the name Buchan Wanderers made up of some of the best players of two leading clubs one of which was Faithlie Thistle 272 William Burnett being appiinted as captain and Alex Byth as vice captain 273 The club s first match was against fellow Fraserburgh side Hawthorn which ended contentiously as the Wanderers walked off when the referee refused to allow what would have been an equalizing goal 274 Over the next couple of years the club was variously referred to as Buchan Wanderers Wanderers 275 or Fraserburgh Wanderers 276 the last reference to the Buchan name in the form of Fraserburgh Buchan Wanderers in October 1892 277 and Fraserburgh Wanderers was the name under which the club registered itself with the Scottish Football Association in 1893 278 The Fraserburgh FA was set up in February 1890 and the club was a founder member It won the Fraserburgh Cup for the first time in 1892 93 and every season from 1894 95 until 1903 04 279 The club also took part in the Aberdeenshire Cup from 1892 93 to 1904 05 but found the standard far higher either losing by big margins every time it played or scratching from its remaining entries Despite this dispiriting record at county level the club entered the Scottish Cup in 1893 94 being drawn at Aberdeen in the first preliminary round Aberdeen scored straight from the kick off and 6 0 up at half time were so dominant that Tom Smyth in goal swapped out with left back Ritchie this allowed William Noble to score the only Wanderers goal with a soft shot However Aberdeen scored five more without reply for an 11 1 victory 280 Plainly outgunned the Wanderers did not enter the competition again and reverted to county and local football Its long hold on the Fraserburgh Cup was ended in 1905 by Fraserburgh Thistle who beat Wanderers 3 2 in the final 281 and the club disbanded afterwards supposedly for one season 282 but it never re emerged Colours edit The club played in light blue 283 284 Ground edit The club originally played its matches on the Fraserburgh Links 285 286 It played its most important matches such as Aberdeen Cup matches on Bellslea Park 287 as did the Hawthorn side Gladstonians F C editGladstoniansNickname s the Glads 288 Founded1889Dissolved1895GroundKingholm ParkPresidentR C Hastings 289 Match SecretaryGeorge Hume nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home colours nbsp 1892 93 Southern Counties Cup Thistle Lochmaben 0 8 Gladstonians Dumfries amp Galloway Advertiser 5 October 1892History edit The Dumfries club was founded in 1889 290 by adherents to Gladstonian liberalism Its earliest recorded match is a 19 0 hammering by St John s in September 291 but recovered enough to beat the Dumfries Swifts 4 3 the next month the game ending early as the Swifts walked off in protest at a refereeing decision 292 The club made its debut in competitive football in the 1891 92 season by entering the Southern Counties Cup and the Churchill Cup However the club suffered heavy defeats in its first ties in both 11 3 to St Cuthbert Wanderers in the former and 14 2 at Queen of the South Wanderers in the latter The club did successfully protest its defeat against St Cuthbert on the basis that one of the Kirkcudbright club s players was wearing iron heelplates even though the protest was considered paltry the Southern Counties FA considered it had no alternative given the regulations but to uphold it 293 However the replay never seems to have taken place the Gladstonians withdrawing 294 The club was the subject of some notoriety when one of its members John William Brown a painter of North Queensbury Street was sentenced to three months imprisonment after drunkenly assaulting a woman and stealing 4s from her 295 The club however joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1892 despite not having a private ground of its own which was normally a minimum requirement 296 This enabled the club to enter the preliminary rounds of the 1892 93 Scottish Cup apparently without the knowledge of the club s members 297 so when drawn to play Queen of the South Wanderers in its first tie it scratched on arrival and the clubs played out a friendly As with the Churchill Cup tie the year before the Wanderers won 14 2 Gladstonians playing the second half with ten men 298 It turned out to be the club s only entry in the competition as it did not renew its Scottish FA membership at the end of the season Gladstonians did at least win a competitive match in the Southern Counties Cup that season 8 0 at Rising Thistle 299 but the club was 6 1 down at Newton Stewart in the quarter final when the tie was stopped for bad light 300 rather than replay the tie the Glads scratched The club had not entered the Churchill Cup that season and did not enter any senior level competition again it continued to play until at least the end of 1894 301 but seems to have disbanded by the start of the 1895 96 season The name was revived in 1896 when the Dumfries and Maxwelltown Junior Liberal Association resolved to form a new football club adopting a familiar name 302 Colours edit The club wore pink jerseys 303 Ground edit The club played at the public Kingsholm Park 304 Glencairn F C Edinburgh editGlencairnFounded1880Dissolved1888GroundMerchiston Park North Match SecretaryJohn Cundill nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The club was founded in 1880 and played low level football until joining the Scottish Football Association in 1885 305 As a senior club it claimed a membership of 150 which although well behind the Edinburgh behemoths of Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian should have made it close to St Bernard s However the club s move to seniority may have cost it some of its following as it was now a competitor to the other Edinburgh senior clubs rather than a complement The club did not renew its membership at the end of the 1885 86 season 306 Its only competitive matches as a senior club included a 6 2 defeat in the 1885 86 Scottish Cup to Norton Park 307 a club which had never won a Scottish Cup tie before and a 3 1 defeat to the junior Vale of Midlothian in the first round of the Edinburgh Shield 308 The club did continue after leaving the Scottish FA entering the Edinburgh Shield until 1887 88 and entering the new King Cup twice in 1886 87 and 1887 88 Colours edit The club wore black jerseys white knickers and black and white hose 309 Ground edit The club played at the north end of Merchiston Park on Slateford Road 10 minutes from Merchiston railway station 310 Glencairn F C Glasgow editGlencairnFounded1877Dissolved1884GroundStrathclyde ParkHon SecretaryRobert LangMatch SecretaryJohn Graham nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The east Glasgow club was formed in 1877 out of a cricket club 311 Its earliest recorded football fixture was a 5 0 win against the Saracen Youths on Glasgow Green in 1880 312 After a record of 13 wins 2 draws and just 1 defeat in 1882 83 313 the club decided to turn senior in 1883 314 It lost 3 1 in the first round of the 1883 84 Scottish Cup to Granton 315 The club had one season as a senior club 316 and seems to have dissolved after the season although its matches were scarcely ever reported so it may have continued on a low key basis afterwards Colours edit The club wore royal and navy blue striped jerseys and white knickers 317 Ground edit The club started out at Glasgow Green 318 As a senior club Glencairn obtained the use of Strathclyde Park on the east end of Dalmarnock Road a minute from the tram terminus 319 Greenock Rovers F C editGreenock RoversFounded1883Dissolved1885GroundBogston ParkSecretaryJames Cunningham nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit Greenock Rovers was one of a number of clubs which emerged in Greenock Renfrewshire in the 1880s It joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1884 at the same time as Rangers 320 and after other clubs such as Morton and Southern The club was therefore joining a saturated market and despite claiming a foundation date of 1883 there are no matches recorded from before May 1884 321 Its first match as a senior took place on 30 August 1884 and was an 11 0 hammering at home to Southern 322 a week later as a practice match for its opponent a Rovers XI took on a ten man Morton and lost 4 0 323 Rovers would only ever play one competitive match a 3 1 defeat at Clippens in the 1884 85 Scottish Cup 324 In the aftermath of the match there were rumours that Rovers had already disbanded 325 Rovers did last long enough to register a 2 1 revenge win over Clippens in October 1884 326 but at the end of the month it not turn up to Bogston Park for its first round Renfrewshire Cup tie with Northern Greenock 327 and it fell off the Scottish FA register after only one season 328 Colours edit The club wore navy blue jerseys and knickers and red hose 329 Ground edit The club s ground Bogston Park 330 was shared with Northern and Lyle Athletic 331 Hamilton Hibernians F C editHamilton HiberniansNickname s the Hibs 332 Founded1887Dissolved1888GroundN B ParkHon SecretaryJohn DuffyMatch SecretaryJ McGeechan nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The Hamilton Lanarkshire club was first recorded in June 1887 as an entrant to a four a side football tournament 333 Two months later the Hibernians joined the Scottish Football Association 334 and entered the 1887 88 Scottish Cup The club was drawn against fellow Irish origin side Cambuslang Hibernians in the first round and lost 6 4 335 The two sides were again drawn together in the first round of the Lanarkshire Cup a month later again at Cambuslang and again Cambuslang won a high scoring game this time 9 3 336 The club was active through the season and started the 1888 89 season with a friendly against Hamilton West End 337 The Hibs almost became the top club in Hamilton at the same time as it appeared that Hamilton Academical was on the verge of dissolving a meeting to confirm the decision being postponed because ironically of a lack of interest with the Hibs poised to take over the Acas ground and plant at South Haugh 338 but the Hibs turned down the chance to do so and the Acas decided to continue 339 The Hibs failure to take over South Haugh was a fateful and fatal step Before the season could get properly underway Glasgow Hibernian took away Duffy and the Acas took away M Queen 340 by the end of August the Hibs were struck off the Scottish FA roll for non payment of subscription 341 and the club disappeared A new club Hamilton Harp started up in 1890 to represent the Hamilton Irish Colours edit The club wore green jerseys and blue knickers 342 Ground edit The ground called N B North British Park was behind the North British Railway station 343 with an entrance off Windmill Road 344 Notable player edit One Hibernian player represented the Lanarkshire representative side the half back M Queen who featured against the Edinburgh side 345 Hawthorn F C editHawthornNickname s the Haws 346 Founded1888Dissolved1896Groundthe LinksPresidentDavid Watt 347 SecretaryPeter Buchan John M KayCaptainWilliam Sinclair G Cumming 348 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp coloursHistory edit nbsp 1893 94 Scottish Cup 1st preliminary round Orion 9 1 Hawthorn Fraserburgh Aberdeen Press 4 September 1893The Hawthorn club was formed in Fraserburgh Aberdeenshire in October 1888 349 The club was made up primarily of tradesmen and shopkeepers 350 At the time association football in the town was considered a distinct second to rugby a rugby match at the start of 1889 being considered the more important match than the Hawthorn friendly on the same day 351 The Fraserburgh FA was set up in February 1890 and the club was a founder member It won the Fraserburgh Cup in its first instalment in 1889 90 and also took the trophy in 1891 92 and 1893 94 352 353 In the latter season the club played in the Scottish Cup for the only time being drawn at Orion in the first preliminary round Hawthorn put in special practice for the tie 354 and kicking off with the slope took an early lead However the nettled Orion scored nine goals without further reply 355 The clubs met again in a friendly at the Links three weeks later this time Orion won 9 2 356 Hawthorn tried its luck in the Aberdeenshire Cup in 1894 95 beating Aberdeen University F C 6 4 at Bellslea Park in the first round coming from 4 2 down despite having a somewhat scratchy team 357 but scratched to Orion in the second The last recorded fixtures known for the club was a pair of ill tempered 4 2 fixtures with Peterhead the match at Bellslea leaving two or three of the Hawthorn players incapacitated 358 and the return ending 7 2 to Peterhead 359 References to a Hawthorn club afterwards appear to refer to an Aberdeen side 360 and a new club using the Hawthorn name was formed in Fraserburgh in 1898 361 Colours edit The club played in white 362 Ground edit The club originally played its matches on the Fraserburgh Links 363 In 1894 it moved to Bellslea Park sharing with Fraserburgh Wanderers 364 Holytown F C editHolytownNickname s the Holytonians 365 Founded1879Dissolved1883GroundTownhead ParkMatch SecretaryJohn Coffey Hugh MillerCaptainP S Carmichael 366 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The club was formed in Holytown Lanarkshire in 1879 It was considered the winners of the championship of the district after a win over New Stevenston Rangers in August 1881 367 and in the following months entered the 1881 82 Lanarkshire Cup debuting in the competition with a startling 7 0 win over Mosside The club lost 5 1 in the second at Airdrie After winning 8 of 15 matches in 1881 82 the club joined the Scottish Football Association for the 1882 83 season 368 and entered the Scottish Cup The club was drawn at home to fellow new boys Wishaw and Wishaw won 2 0 Holytown s protest about rough play was not considered although the Scottish FA warned Wishaw to be more careful in the future and returned the 10 deposit to Holytown 369 The club lasted to the start of the 1883 84 season entering a four a side tournament in August 1883 hosted by Hamilton Academical 370 although it did not renew its subscription to the Scottish FA 371 and seems to have disbanded soon afterwards Colours edit The club wore white jerseys and blue knickers 372 Ground edit The club s first ground was Thankerton Park 373 On turning senior it moved to Townhead Park 15 minutes walk from Holytown railway station 374 Ingram F C editIngramFounded1876Dissolved1881GroundArgyle ParkSecretaryJoseph Adams nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The Govan club claimed a foundation date of 1876 with its earliest reported matches coming from the 1877 78 season 375 and although never particularly active it only played 10 matches in 1879 80 in 1880 joined the Scottish Football Association Its one tie in the Scottish Cup at South Western in September 1880 was a 7 0 defeat Ingram conceding the first goal after 2 minutes although Ingram s passing game was praised for its neatness 376 The club entered the 1881 82 Scottish Cup and was drawn to play Athole but both clubs had dissolved before the tie could take place 377 Colours edit The club described its colours as blue and white without giving any more specific detail 378 Ground edit Ingram played at Argyle Park near Paisley Road toll 379 It later became the ground of Fairfield 380 Kilmarnock Thistle F C editNot to be confused with Kilmaronock Thistle F C Kilmarnock ThistleFounded1885Dissolved1889GroundPublic GroundMatch SecretaryJ Bowie nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The first reference to the Ayrshire club is of a New Year s Day fixture against Ashbank in 1886 381 however there is no record of the club playing a match until New Year s Day 1887 when the Thistle beat Paisley Anchor 4 2 382 The club played at a junior level in 1887 88 including a 15 0 win over Avonhaugh 383 and at the close of the season the Thistle was invited to play in the Kilmarnock Charity Cup Thistle beat Kilmarnock Rangers 5 2 at Hurlford 384 and after Kilbirnie cried off a semi final against Hurlford the Thistle sent a last minute scratch team to play instead losing 4 1 but earning some funds for charity 385 In the official semi final Thistle held Kilmarnock to a 0 0 draw at Rugby Park 386 Kilmarnock won the replay 5 1 387 but ended up playing in an impromptu final again against Hurlford after Kilmarnock was unable to form an XI Hurlford won 2 0 but Thistle received praise for its willingness to help at the last moment for a second time 388 Given its good showings in a difficult environment the Athletic joined the Scottish Football Association in August 389 and entered the 1888 89 Scottish Cup However the club scratched from its first round tie with Maybole 390 key player Andrew Campbell 391 having been recruited by Kilmarnock 392 and indeed does not seem ever to have played as a senior club The club was duly struck off the Scottish FA roll at the end of the season 393 Colours edit The club wore blue and black hooped shirts and white knickers 394 Ground edit The club s ground was simply given out as being the Public Ground 395 Kilsyth Standard F C editKilsyth StandardFounded1890Dissolved1893GroundBalmallock ParkHon SecretaryD BrownMatch SecretaryT Inglis nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The short lived club from Kilsyth was formed in April 1890 396 signing up 22 members inside one week at the start of the 1890 91 season 397 The club affiliated to the Stirlingshire Association so played in the Stirlingshire Cup from 1890 91 to 1892 93 and also entered the Scottish Qualifying Cup for the latter two seasons it lost every tie it played usually heavily the nadir being a 12 2 defeat by Dunipace in the 1891 92 Stirlingshire 398 a month after only losing to the same club 4 3 in the Qualifying 399 The club s second and last Qualifying Cup tie a 6 0 defeat to Camelon got worse after the match as Camelon complained about being overcharged its share of expenses for the tie by 13s 6d 400 The club did get revenge over Dunipace in the Kilsyth Charity Cup in 1892 93 with a 3 0 win 401 the club had reached the final the previous year losing 4 1 to Smithstone Hibs 402 Given that Kilsyth already had the Kilsyth Wanderers F C as well as Smithstone there was little chance of the Standard succeeding and it was wound up in August 1893 403 The name was later used by a juvenile club 404 Colours edit The club wore dark blue 405 Ground edit The club played at Balmallock Park 406 Kirkintilloch Harp F C editKirkintilloch HarpFounded1885Dissolved1889GroundBellfield RoadHon SecretaryA CorcoranMatch SecretaryThomas Mochan nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The club was founded in 1885 the same year as two other clubs in Kirkintilloch namely Athletic and Central 407 The club s earliest recorded match was at home to Falkirk Harp at the start of 1886 but was ill omened on two accounts firstly the only goal of the game scored by Falkirk was disputed and never resolved and secondly a storm ended the game after an hour 408 Athletic got the jump on the other sides by joining the Scottish Football Association almost immediately while Central and Harp waited until 1886 409 Although by 1886 the Harp was the biggest of the three sides it was further restricted by its being a club for the Irish diaspora rather than the wider constituency available to the other clubs indeed its friendly matches were often against other Celtic clubs such as Glasgow Harp 410 Springburn Harp 411 and Lambhill Harp 412 The other major problem for the club progressing in the senior game was its location in Dumbartonshire which had three of the strongest teams in the world in the county With the Scottish Cup being drawn on a regional basis the Harp was particularly unlucky with its two entries in the 1886 87 Scottish Cup it was drawn to visit Renton and in the 1887 88 Scottish Cup it was drawn to face the previous year s semi finalists Vale of Leven The club therefore scratched from both ties 413 only 7 of the side turning up to the Vale of Leven tie 414 so the clubs played out a friendly instead 415 The club nearly fell apart completely in the aftermath of the Vale of Leven fiasco two of its best players Keenan and Friel joining Athletic 416 It also never entered the Dumbartonshire Cup so never took part in a competitive match at a national or county level Its only competitive football came in the Kirkintilloch Jubilee Cup for the first and second XIs in the town itself and first held in 1886 87 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 417 Even in that the club proved to be behind Central and Athletic its only win came against Kirkintilloch Rob Roy in 1888 89 and it lost the final to Athletic 10 0 418 419 The club withdrew from senior football when not renewing its Scottish FA membership in August 1888 420 and the defeat to the Athletic in the Jubilee Cup final seems to have been the club s last match An unrelated Junior club started up in 1894 421 Colours edit The club wore green jerseys with a heart on the left breast green hose and dark knickers 422 Ground edit The club s home ground was Bellfield Park 8 minutes from Kirkintilloch railway station 423 Lanark F C 1878 editNot to be confused with Lanark F C LanarkFounded1878Dissolved1882GroundPeesweep MeadowsSecretaryJohn Meikle Andrew Frood nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The club from the county town of Lanarkshire was founded in 1878 Its earliest recorded match is a 1 0 win over Wishaw in November 1879 424 Lanark s first competitive football was in the first Lanarkshire Cup in 1879 80 losing 1 0 at home to eventual winners Stonelaw in the first round 425 The club had the benefit of a handsome donation from Sir Windham Carmichael Anstruther 8th Baronet in December 1879 426 and it joined the Scottish Football Association in 1880 after a season of even form 6 wins 6 draws and 3 defeats The club therefore played in the 1880 81 Scottish Cup and lost in the first round to Shotts 427 Lanark entered the 1881 82 Scottish Cup and Lanarkshire Cup but scratched from both competitions to Clarkston 428 Lanark did eventually visit Clarkston for a friendly in January 1882 but lost 6 0 429 Never an active or large club in 1880 81 it only had 29 members and played 10 matches 430 it was struck from the Scottish FA roll in August 1882 431 It was still active in the months afterwards the first two XIs playing a practice match on the Racecourse in October 432 but it did not play competitive football again Colours edit Lanark wore navy blue jerseys white knickers with a blue stripe and red hose 433 Ground edit The club s original ground on the Peesweep Meadows was one mile from Lanark railway station 434 By May 1880 it moved to Lanark Racecourse 435 436 Lochmaben F C 1881 editLochmabenFounded1881Dissolved1885GroundStairdyke ParkPresidentJames Wright 437 Match SecretaryJames Affleck nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The club from Lochmaben village in Dumfriesshire was founded in 1881 and joined the Scottish Football Association in 1882 having won 3 and lost 4 of its first season s matches 438 One of the wins had been against Queen of the South Wanderers 439 although owing to a mix up as to which side had been invited to Lochmaben the Wanderers sent its third XI much to the dismay of the Lochmaben players who threatened to walk off unless the first XI attended which persuaded the Wanderers thirds to masquerade as the firsts in order to get a game 440 Lochmaben entered the 1882 83 Scottish Cup and was drawn against the Wanderers but by now the players had realized that the first XI was much too strong for the Lochmaben side and scratched 441 The club had not been helped by a number of players from its first season having left the village before 1882 83 as was demonstrated by an 11 1 at home Moffat in the first round of the Churchill Cup conceding 8 in the first half 442 It did not renew its Scottish FA subscription 443 and it withdrew from the 1883 84 Churchill Cup The club did continue playing into the 1884 85 season albeit at a very minor level 444 The next senior club in the town Rising Thistle would be even more unsuccessful for longer Colours edit The club s colours were blue and white 445 Ground edit The club played at Stairdyke Park adjoining the High Street 446 Maybole Thistle F C editMaybole ThistleFounded1876Dissolved1878GroundSpring Garden ParkMatch SecretarySamuel M Call nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The Ayrshire club was the second club founded in Maybole after Carrick The earliest recorded match for the club is a 6 1 win over the obscure Ayr Bonnie Doon club in February 1877 447 Thistle joined the Scottish Football Association in September 1877 448 and entered the 1877 78 Scottish Cup but lost 4 0 to Kilmarnock Cricket amp Football Club 449 The club continued to the end of the 1877 78 season 450 but did not enter the first Ayrshire Cup that season and seems to have disbanded afterwards The Maybole Thistle name was revived in 1884 for a junior club 451 Colours edit The club wore light navy blue jerseys white knickers and blue and white hose 452 Ground edit The club played at Spring Garden Park a mile from Maybole railway station 453 Oakfield F C editOakfieldFounded1877Dissolved1880GroundHill End ParkSecretaryJames Barbour nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The unfortunate Oakfield club was one of many which emerged in Greenock Renfrewshire in the 1870s and 1880s Oakfield was earlier than most founded in 1877 and playing its first match in October that year albeit fielding 13 players against 11 of the East End club of Greenock 454 Oakfield joined the Scottish Football Association in 1880 having won 6 and lost 5 of its 11 matches in 1879 80 however before playing its 1880 81 Scottish Cup first round tie against Netherlee the club was forced to scratch having just lost use of its ground and therefore had to lie dormant for the season 455 However the club never re started 456 players having found berths elsewhere Gregg Millar Aitken Barbour 457 and Fleming in particular to Morton mostly in the second XI 458 Colours edit The club wore navy jerseys white knickers and red stockings 459 Ground edit Oakfield s home ground was Hill End Park a minute from Cartsdyke railway station 460 Orchard F C editOrchardFounded1881Dissolved1885GroundAlbert ParkHon SecretaryHugh M WhinnieMatch SecretaryJames Lawrie nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Home coloursHistory edit The Orchard club was from Oatlands Glasgow to the south east of the city centre It was founded in 1881 and joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1883 461 Orchard won its first Scottish Cup tie 4 2 at Possilpark in September 1883 462 but lost 8 1 to Partick Thistle in the second round although the tie was closer than the score suggested with the Orchard having a lot of late pressure 463 On the same day as the second round tie the Orchard second XI lost 15 0 at the 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers in the Second XI Cup 464 With only 30 members in 1884 the club was the smallest in Glasgow but it had quite a successful first season as a senior club with 9 wins in 15 matches 465 However it scratched from its entry to the 1884 85 Scottish Cup and in August 1885 it was struck off the Scottish FA roll 466 Colours edit The club wore red and black jerseys with white knickers 467 Ground edit The club played at Albert Park 468 in Braehead Street a 2 minute walk from the Rutherglen Road car terminus 469 Our Boys F C Glasgow editOur BoysFounded1875Dissolved1878GroundBelvidereHon SecretaryW, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
