| Full name | Dumbreck Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Nickname | The South Side Club[1] | |
| Founded | 1871 | |
| Dissolved | 1877 | |
| Ground | Middleton Park,[2] Ibroxhill | |
| Secretary | William Turnbull | |
Dumbreck Football Club was a 19th-centuryassociation football club based inGlasgow.
The club was formed in 1872[3] out of the Dumbreck Cricket Club[4] and was one of the eight founder members of theScottish Football Association.[5] Its earliest recorded matches were against theClydesdale club in early 1873.[6]
Dumbreck was the opposition forQueen's Park on 25 October 1873 for the first match played atthe 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 between1873–74 and1877–78,[9] the club's best run coming in1875–76, 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 goalkeeperM'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 withRangers, the club disappeared before the 1877–78 season. It withdrew from the Scottish Cup rather than face the newShawfield club[11][12] having resolved not to play any more fixtures.[13]
Dumbreck played in blue shirts with white shorts, with scarlet stockings in 1873 and black and white stockings in 1874.[14][15]
