Dumbreck F.C.

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Dumbreck
Full nameDumbreck Football Club
Nickname(s)The South Side Club [1]
Founded1871
Dissolved1877
GroundMiddleton Park, [2] Ibroxhill
SecretaryWilliam Turnbull

Dumbreck Football Club was a 19th-century association football club based in Glasgow.

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History

Clydesdale 1-0 Dumbreck, one of the first matches played after the formation of the Scottish FA, 22 March 1873 Clydesdale 1-0 Dumbreck, one of the first matches played after the formation of the Scottish FA, 22 March 1873.jpg
Clydesdale 1–0 Dumbreck, one of the first matches played after the formation of the Scottish FA, 22 March 1873

The club was formed in 1872 [3] out of the Dumbreck Cricket Club [4] and was one of the eight founder members of the Scottish Football Association. [5] Its earliest recorded matches were against the Clydesdale club in early 1873. [6]

Dumbreck was the opposition for Queen's Park on 25 October 1873 for the first match played at the 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 between 1873–74 and 1877–78, [9] the club's best run coming in 1875–76, 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 goalkeeper M'Geoch was 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 with Rangers, the club disappeared before the 1877–78 season. It withdrew from the Scottish Cup rather than face the new Shawfield club [11] [12] having resolved not to play any more fixtures. [13]

Colours

Dumbreck played in blue shirts with white shorts, with scarlet stockings in 1873 and black and white stockings in 1874. [14] [15]

Notable players

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References

  1. "Western v Dumbreck". North British Daily Mail: 7. 17 November 1873.
  2. "Association Game". Glasgow Herald: 5. 24 January 1876.
  3. Alcock, Charles (1873). Football Yearbook. Paternoster Row: Virtue & Co. p. 98.
  4. "Football Notes". North British Daily Mail: 4. 17 February 1873.
  5. "Brief History of the Scottish Football Association". Scottish Football Association. Archived from the original on 1 July 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  6. "Football". Glasgow Herald: 6. 24 March 1873.
  7. The Men with the Educated Feet, F.H.C Robertson, Page 10
  8. "Queens had their Iron Curtain, too". Daily Record: 10. 3 April 1953.
  9. "Scotland – Cup Results 1873/74-1877/78 and 1889/90-1995/96". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  10. "Football in the Glasgow district". Glasgow Herald: 7. 20 December 1875.
  11. "Association Cup ties". North British Daily Mail: 4. 12 September 1877.
  12. The Shawfield club changed its name afterwards to Derby.
  13. Dick, William (1876). Scottish Football Annual 1876–77. Cranstonhill: Mackay & Kirkwood. p. 84.
  14. "Scottish Football Club Directory 1829–2009".
  15. Charles Alcock Yearbooks 1873–74
  16. "Scotland – International Matches 1872–1880". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 11 October 2017.