| Full name | 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers Athletic Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Nicknames | the Greys,[1] the Warriors[2] | |
| Founded | 1874 | |
| Dissolved | 1882 (for association football) | |
| Ground | Burnbank, Great Western Road | |
| Secretary | R. H. Sinclair | |
The1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers Athletic Club[3] was a 19th-centuryassociation football club based inGlasgow.
The club was formed out of the1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, a company in theVolunteer movement of theBritish Army. The Volunteers included sporting activities within their purview and newspapers often carried reports of such activities. The growth of football in Scotland, especially thanks toQueen's Park, and the success of army teams in England such as theRoyal Engineers, encouraged regiments to form football clubs as part of the physical regimen.
The 1st LRV was the second Volunteer club in Glasgow to form, after the3rd Lanarkshire club. On formation the club joined theFootball Association as well as theScottish Football Association.[4]
The club entered theScottish Cup for the first time in1875–76. The club was drawn at home toRangers, already one of the most established clubs in Scotland, and lost by 7 goals to nil.[5]
The club entered the competition seven times in total, scratching once and losing in the first round five times. The club's only wins came in the1877–78 Scottish Cup, when victories at home toBlythswood (by 1–0, having "pressed their opponents during the whole game")[6] andTelegraphists[7] put the club into the third round, made up of 34 clubs. Playing away at Copeland Park, the club went down 4–0 toSouth Western in a "very fast and pleasant" game.[8]
Thefollowing season the club drew 0–0 withParkgrove at Burnbank in the first round, but was largely outclassed all match, only Connel in goal keeping the club in the match; two of the players in the match (Bews and Dewar) were among the four players known to have played in the Rangers match three years before.[9] Parkgrove however won the replay 6–2.[10]
It is not clear when the club last played; its last Senior match was a defeat in the Scottish Cup toNorthern in the first round in1882–83.[11] The only reported football matches for the club after 1882 are underrugby union rules.[12]
The club wore light blue and grey, with the regimental badge, matching the regimental colours.[13]
The club played at Burnbank, on the Great Western Road in Glasgow.[14]
