Maxwell F.C.
| Full name | Maxwell Football Club | |
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| Founded | 1878 | |
| Dissolved | 1882 | |
| Ground | Norwood Park | |
| Secretary | R. Thomson Wilson | |
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Maxwell F.C.was a nineteenth-centuryGlasgow-based senior football club.
History
[edit]The club was founded in 1878 and its first fixtures are reported from the 1879–80 season.[1]In 1880, after a season in which the club won 11 of 17 matches,[2]it joined theScottish Football Association.
The club only played one season of senior football. Maxwell's only match in theScottish Cupwas a 6–0 defeat in the first round of the1880–81tournament toOxfordofCrosshillin the first round; it was the Oxford's only win in the competition in seven seasons.[3]
The club is notable for being the first club of the first black football player,Andrew Watson.[4]Another Maxwell player - Louis Baretto[5]- was alascarsailor born inBombay.[6]
Colours
[edit]The club wore navy and white hooped jerseys and hose, with white knickers.[7]
Ground
[edit]The club had a private ground at Norwood Park, on Dumbreck Road, nearHaggs Castle.[8]By 1882 it was the ground ofGranton,[9]and ofSir John Maxwell,which was founded in the same year as the Maxwell, although it joined the Scottish Association separately in 1882.
Notable former players
[edit]- Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856),Scottish international football player; and the first black association football player.
References
[edit]- ^"Maxwell v Hayborn".North British Daily Mail:7. 15 December 1879.
- ^Fleming, J. S. (1880).Scottish Association Football Annual 1880–81.Gillespie Brothers. p. 39.
- ^"Oxford v Maxwell, Pollokshields".Glasgow Herald:3. 13 September 1880.
- ^Heffernan, Conor (19 April 2016)."Andrew Watson: the silent pioneer for black footballers".
- ^"Maxwell Football Club (Pollokshields)".North British Daily Mail:7. 17 May 1880.
- ^"Louis Baretto in the 1881 Scotland Census".ancestry.Retrieved16 July2023.
- ^Fleming, J. S. (1880).Scottish Association Football Annual 1880–81.Gillespie Brothers. p. 39.
- ^Fleming, J. S. (1880).Scottish Association Football Annual 1880–81.Gillespie Brothers. p. 39.
- ^M'Dowall, John (1882).Scottish Football Association Annual 1882–83.Glasgow: W. Weatherston. p. 136.
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