Dumbreck F.C.

Dumbreck

Full name	Dumbreck Football Club
Nickname(s)	the South Side Club[1]
Founded	1871
Dissolved	1877
Ground	Middleton Park,[2] Ibroxhill
Secretary	William Turnbull
Home colours

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

History

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

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

References