| Full name | Good Templars' Harmonic Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Nickname | the Harmonic | |
| Founded | 1878 | |
| Dissolved | 1882 | |
| Ground | Onslow Park | |
| Match Secretary | George Falconer | |
| Hon. Secretary | Andrew Watson,[1] | |
Harmonic Football Club was aScottishassociation football club based inDennistoun, inGlasgow.
The club was founded in 1878, as an athletic division of the Glasgow branch of theInternational Organisation of Good Templars, and its earliest recorded match comes from the end of the 1878–79 season.[2] The club was often known asGood Templars Harmonic or similar, the Harmonic referring to weekly entertainments which the group used to hold.[3]
The Harmonic entered theScottish Cup from1879–80 to1881–82. The club reached the second round in every season, without winning a match, as in each tournament its opponent scratched or had disbanded before the first round.
The club's first Cup tie was therefore in the second round in 1879–80, atAlexandra Athletic, which its opponents won 5–0.[4] A measure of the strength of Glasgow football at the time is shown by Harmonic, one of the minor clubs in the city, beatingHanover, one of the leading clubs in Edinburgh, 3–0 in a friendly in November 1879.[5] The club was also good enough to beatCowlairs in the same month.[6] Harmonic's only competitive wins come in the same season, in the Royal Standard and Grand National Halls Cup for teams in and aroundGorbals.[7]
The Harmonic had a better Scottish Cup showing in1880–81, drawing its second round tie 1–1 withClyde, W. Smith equalizing a Clyde goal before half-time, and pressing its opponents for most of the second-half without breaking through.[8] Clyde however won the replay at Barrowfield Park, scoring the only goal of the game "by some clever play".[9]
The replay proved to be Harmonic's last Scottish Cup tie; when scheduled to faceRangers in the second round in 1881–82,[10] the Harmonic scratched, allowing Rangers to play a friendly againstSt Bernard's instead.[11] The club's last recorded fixtures come later in the month, againstPaisley Athletic.[12]
The club originally gave its colours as Oxford and Cambridge blue.[13] In 1880 the club played in light blue jerseys, white knickerbockers, and blue stockings.[14]
The club played at Onslow Park, two minutes' walk from the Dennistoun car stop, which had previously been the ground of theDennistoun club.[15]
