Carrick F.C.
{{short description|Former association football club in Scotland}}
{{distinguish|Maybole Carrick F.C.}}
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| founded = 1874
| dissolved = 1888
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| chairman = George Thompson
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| manager = John Sinclair
| ground = Saracen Park
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Carrick Football Club was a 19th-century football club originally from the Partick area of Glasgow in Scotland, but which moved to Possilpark for a brief period.
History
The club was founded in August 1874{{cite book |last1=McDowall |first1=John |title=Scottish FA Annual 1886–87 |date=1886 |publisher=Hay Nisbet|page=47}} playing in Maryhill.{{cite journal |title=Carrick v Grafton Athletics |journal=North British Daily Mail |date=15 December 1879 |page=7}} For most of its existence the club played low-level football.{{cite journal |title=Carrick Juniors v Royal Albion |journal=North British Daily Mail |date=22 October 1877 |page=3}}
In 1884, Possilpark F.C. dissolved, and its ground at Saracen Park was put up for rent.{{cite journal |title=Ground to Feu, Sell or Let |journal=North British Daily Mail |date=19 November 1884 |page=8}} Carrick took on the ground from the start of the 1885–86 season and joined the Scottish Football Association, entitling it to enter the Scottish Cup, which it did for the first time in 1886–87.
Initially the move looked promising, as, in one of its first senior matches, Carrick beat Kirkintilloch Athletic 5–0,{{cite journal |title=Carrick v Kirkintilloch Athletic |journal=Bridge of Allan Gazette |date=10 October 1885 |page=2}} and later beat Wishaw Swifts;{{cite journal |title=Swifts v Carrick |journal=Wishaw Press |date=6 March 1886 |page=2}} although the club lost at Lindertis of Forfarshire, it was at least well-regarded enough to be able to play friendlies distance from Glasgow.{{cite journal |title=Lindertis (Kirriemuir) v Carrick (Glasgow) |journal=Dundee Courier |date=2 January 1886 |page=4}}
The step-up to senior competition however proved to be another matter. In the first round of the Cup in 1886–87, the club lost 2–0 at home to Westbourne,{{cite journal |title=Matches played on Saturday |journal=Glasgow Herald |date=13 September 1886 |page=10}} a club with little pedigree. The club's second and last entry, in 1887–88, was disastrous; Carrick lost 10–0 at home to Thistle of east Glasgow in the first round.{{cite journal |title=Matches played on Saturday |journal=Glasgow Herald |date=5 September 1887 |page=6}}; the North British Daily Mail mistakenly gives the score as 10–4 - the 10–0 score is confirmed in the 1887–88 SFA yearbook.
The club did continue playing afterwards,{{cite journal |title=Saturday's fixtures |journal=Rutherglen Reformer |date=14 October 1887 |page=6}} and Saracen Park is still described as Carrick's home at the close of the season.{{cite journal |title=Western Hibernians v Cowlairs |journal=Glasgow Herald |date=25 May 1888 |page=11}} However the move to senior football, in an area with more established clubs like Cowlairs and Northern, appears to have been too ambitious, as the club disappears before the 1888–89 season, and the ground is taken over by Temperance Athletic.
Colours
The club played in royal blue and white one-inch striped shirts, and dark blue shorts with white stripes.{{cite book |last1=McDowall |first1=John |title=Scottish FA Annual 1886–87 |date=1886 |publisher=Hay Nisbet|page=62}}
Ground
The club originally played in Maryhill; by 1884–85 the club had moved to Kelvinside.{{cite journal |title=Carrick v Armadale |journal=Rutherglen Reformer |date=23 January 1885}} As a senior club, it played at Saracen Park, behind the Saracen Foundry, in Possilpark, north Glasgow.{{cite book |last1=M'Dowall |first1=John |title=Scottish Football Association Annual 1882–83 |date=1882 |publisher=W. Weatherston |location=Glasgow |page=145}} The pitch was 120 yards x 78 yards, and the ground had a clubhouse and 36 ft tall flagpole.{{cite journal |title=Ground to Feu, Sell or Let |journal=North British Daily Mail |date=19 November 1884 |page=8}} The ground is close to the current Saracen Park, opened in 1937.{{cite web |title=W Macfarlane and Co. Ltd. Saracen Foundry, Hawthorn Street, Possilpark. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north |url=https://britainfromabove.org.uk/image/spw022211 |website=Britain From Above |access-date=6 April 2023}}
References
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Category:Association football clubs established in 1874
Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 1888
Category:Defunct football clubs in Scotland
Category:Football clubs in Glasgow