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

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

History

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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

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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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  • Alex M'Geoch (also spelled McGeoch), who represented Scotland on four occasions.[16]

References

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  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.