Dumbreck F.C.

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

Dumbreck
Full nameDumbreck Football Club
Founded1871
Dissolved1877
GroundMiddleton Park,[1] Ibroxhill
SecretaryWilliam Turnbull

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

Dumbreck was the opposition for Queen's Park on 25 October 1873 for the first match played at the first Hampden Park.[6] It was also the first match in which Queen's Park wore its iconic black and white hooped jerseys.[7]

Dumbreck entered Scottish Cup tournaments between 1873–74 and 1877–78, [8] 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 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.[9]

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[10][11] having resolved not to play any more fixtures.[12]

Colours

Dumbreck played in blue shirts with white shorts, with scarlet stockings in 1873 and black and white stockings in 1874.[13][14]

Notable players
  • Alex M'Geoch (also spelled McGeoch), who represented Scotland on four occasions.[15]

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