| Full name | Dumfries | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1869 | |
| Dissolved | 1877 | |
| Ground | Dock Park | |
| Secretary | William Kennedy [1] | |
Dumfries Football Club was an association football club from Dumfries, Scotland.
| Full name | Dumfries | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1869 | |
| Dissolved | 1877 | |
| Ground | Dock Park | |
| Secretary | William Kennedy [1] | |
Dumfries Football Club was an association football club from Dumfries, Scotland.
The club was one of the first clubs founded in Scotland; the only other Borders club older than the Dumfries club was the Annan (N.B.) club formed in December 1867. [2]
Dumfries was founded in October 1869 as a rugby union club, but changed to association rules in 1870. [3] The club however switched back to rugby union in 1877; [4] the club's final reported association match was a 2–0 defeat to Maybole in October 1877. [5]
The name was used by at least two other senior other clubs later, the next existing from 1889 to 1892, and the third merging into Queen of the South F.C.; and a more recent junior club now called Heston Rovers.
The club's colours were red, white, and blue, probably in hoops as that was the dominant style of the day. [6]
The club played at Dock Park, five minutes from the railway station. [7]
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