Dumbreck F.C.
| Full name | Dumbreck Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | The South Side Club[1] | |
| Founded | 1871 | |
| Dissolved | 1877 | |
| Ground | Middleton Park,[2]Ibroxhill | |
| Secretary | William Turnbull | |
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Dumbreck Football Clubwas a 19th-centuryassociation footballclub based inGlasgow.
History[edit]
The club was formed in 1872[3]out of the Dumbreck Cricket Club[4]and was one of the eight founder members of theScottish Football Association.[5]Its earliest recorded matches were against theClydesdaleclub in early 1873.[6]
Dumbreck was the opposition forQueen's Parkon 25 October 1873 for the first match played atthe first Hampden Park.[7]It was also the first match in which Queen's Park wore its iconic black and white hooped jerseys.[8]
Dumbreck entered Scottish Cup tournaments between1873–74and1877–78,[9]the club's best run coming in1875–76,when it reached the quarter-finals (last 7). The club was unlucky to draw the dominant Queen's Park at that stage and lost 2–0; the club protested after the match about one of the Queen's Park goals. One noteworthy factor was that the Dumbreck goalkeeperM'Geochwas a pioneer in drop-kicking the ball, rather than kicking it from dead, which was considered at the time to generate greater distance.[10]
Although the club was active in the Scottish FA committees until 1877, and (with 75 members in 1876) was on a par withRangers,the club disappeared before the 1877–78 season. It withdrew from the Scottish Cup rather than face the newShawfieldclub[11][12]having resolved not to play any more fixtures.[13]
Colours[edit]
Dumbreck played in blue shirts with white shorts, with scarlet stockings in 1873 and black and white stockings in 1874.[14][15]
Notable players[edit]
- Alex M'Geoch (also spelled McGeoch), who represented Scotland on four occasions.[16]
References[edit]
- ^"Western v Dumbreck".North British Daily Mail:7. 17 November 1873.
- ^"Association Game".Glasgow Herald:5. 24 January 1876.
- ^Alcock, Charles (1873).Football Yearbook.Paternoster Row: Virtue & Co. p. 98.
- ^"Football Notes".North British Daily Mail:4. 17 February 1873.
- ^"Brief History of the Scottish Football Association".Scottish Football Association. Archived fromthe originalon 1 July 2008.Retrieved6 December2013.
- ^"Football".Glasgow Herald:6. 24 March 1873.
- ^The Men with the Educated Feet, F.H.C Robertson, Page 10
- ^"Queens had their Iron Curtain, too".Daily Record:10. 3 April 1953.
- ^"Scotland – Cup Results 1873/74-1877/78 and 1889/90-1995/96".Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.Retrieved11 October2017.
- ^"Football in the Glasgow district".Glasgow Herald:7. 20 December 1875.
- ^"Association Cup ties".North British Daily Mail:4. 12 September 1877.
- ^The Shawfield club changed its name afterwards to Derby.
- ^Dick, William (1876).Scottish Football Annual 1876–77.Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
- ^"Scottish Football Club Directory 1829–2009".
- ^Charles Alcock Yearbooks 1873–74
- ^"Scotland – International Matches 1872–1880".Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation.Retrieved11 October2017.