Dumbreck F.C.
{{short description|Former association football club in Scotland}}
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Dumbreck Football Club was a 19th-century association football club based in Glasgow.
History
The club was formed in 1872{{cite book |last1=Alcock |first1=Charles |title=Football Yearbook |date=1873 |publisher=Virtue & Co |location=Paternoster Row |page=98}} out of the Dumbreck Cricket Club{{cite journal |title=Football Notes |journal=North British Daily Mail |date=17 February 1873 |page=4}} and was one of the eight founder members of the Scottish Football Association.{{cite web | title=Brief History of the Scottish Football Association | url= http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_football.cfm?curpageid=183 | publisher=Scottish Football Association | access-date=6 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701213600/http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish_football.cfm?curpageid=183 |archive-date=1 July 2008}} Its earliest recorded matches were against the Clydesdale club in early 1873.{{cite journal |title=Football |journal=Glasgow Herald |date=24 March 1873 |page=6}}
Dumbreck was the opposition for Queen's Park on 25 October 1873 for the first match played at the first Hampden Park.The Men with the Educated Feet, F.H.C Robertson, Page 10 It was also the first match in which Queen's Park wore its iconic black and white hooped jerseys.{{cite journal |title=Queens had their Iron Curtain, too |journal=Daily Record |date=3 April 1953 |page=10}}
Dumbreck entered Scottish Cup tournaments between 1873–74 and 1877–78, {{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/scotcuphistfull.html| title=Scotland – Cup Results 1873/74-1877/78 and 1889/90-1995/96| publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation| access-date=11 October 2017}} 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 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 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.{{cite journal |title=Football in the Glasgow district |journal=Glasgow Herald |date=20 December 1875 |page=7}}
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{{cite journal |title=Association Cup ties |journal=North British Daily Mail |date=12 September 1877 |page=4}}The Shawfield club changed its name afterwards to Derby. having resolved not to play any more fixtures.{{cite book |last1=Dick |first1=William |title=Scottish Football Annual 1876–77 |date=1876 |publisher=Mackay & Kirkwood |location=Cranstonhill |page=84}}
Colours
Dumbreck played in blue shirts with white shorts, with scarlet stockings in 1873 and black and white stockings in 1874.{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/br1anmccoll/clublist1.htm|title=Scottish Football Club Directory 1829–2009}}Charles Alcock Yearbooks 1873–74
Notable players
- Alex M'Geoch (also spelled McGeoch), who represented Scotland on four occasions.{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/scot-intres1880.html| title=Scotland – International Matches 1872–1880| publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation| access-date=11 October 2017}}
References
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Category:Football clubs in Glasgow
Category:Association football clubs established in 1871
Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 1877
Category:1871 establishments in Scotland
Category:1877 disestablishments in Scotland