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Alexandra Athletic Football Club was a 19th-century football club from Dennistoun, in Glasgow, which participated in the early years of the Scottish Cup.

Alexandra Athletic
Full nameAlexandra Athletic Football Club
Nickname(s)the A.A.C.,[1] the Athletes[2]
Founded1873
Dissolved1884
GroundKennyhill (now Alexandra) Park, Glasgow
Home colours

History


Match report for Alexandra Athletic v Callander, Glasgow Herald, 20 October 1873
Match report for Alexandra Athletic v Callander, Glasgow Herald, 20 October 1873

The football club was founded in 1873 as an all-round athletics club, with football as the "ruling pastime"; originally, the club's request to use part of Alexandra Park as a home ground was declined, despite the club being "a body of working men...who had done a very gracious thing in asking permission to get the use of a portion of the park".[3] Within two months however the new club was given permission to lease part of the park for sporting activities; by this time the Earl of Glasgow and Robert Dalglish MP had agreed to become the club's patrons[4] and the club had an elite image, with amongst the best sporting facilities and equipment in Glasgow.[5]

By the following season, the issue had been sorted out, and the club was able to play its first Scottish FA Cup tie on the park; after beating Callander F.C. at home in the first round,[6] the club lost 2-0 to Blythswood in the second (last eight), the club complaining that the Blythswood-nominated umpire was not merely a member of the Blythswood club, but had also been giving coaching advice during the match; nevertheless the clubs enjoyed a convivial toast after the match.[7]

At the end of 1875, the club played an exhibition match in Dundee, with the aim of promoting the association game there;[8] the one Dundee club that had played association before (in 1871) had quickly switched to rugby.[9]

The club entered the Scottish Cup until 1884, after which there is no further record. The club reached the second round in 1876-77, beating Eastern F.C. in the first round, but losing 4-0 at Northern in the second. The win over Eastern was at the third time of asking, the clubs having drawn in the first game, and Eastern winning the second 2-0, but being the subject of a successful post-match protest on the basis that the referee who took charge of the match had not been agreed beforehand; ironically, this was down to Eastern objecting to the Alexandra nominee, but Eastern called the protest "a mean subterfuge to attempt to wrest the honours which have already been fairly won".[10]

The following year, the club Lancefield F.C. in the first round but losing 8-0 at Rangers in the next. In 1878-79 the club had its best run, reaching the fourth round (last 18), but again losing to Rangers, this time 3-0.[11] It was the club's best run in the competition.

The club does not seem to have survived the 1883-84 season; it protested to no avail after being knocked out of the Cup by Whitehill,[12] and the final match being a 9-4 defeat at Arbroath, after the club was 4-1 up at half-time.[13] On the club's demise, a number of its members and players joined Rangers; club secretary Walter Crichton took the same role at the Light Blues.[14]


Colours


The club played in a variety of colours:[15]


Notable players





References


  1. "Alexandra Athletc v Blythswood". Glasgow Herald: 6. 25 November 1873.
  2. "Football - The Cup Tie". North British Daily Mail: 3. 14 October 1876.
  3. "The Public Parks - The Games at the Alexandra". Glasgow Herald: 6. 18 April 1873.
  4. "Alexandra Athletic Club". North British Daily Mail: 3. 27 May 1873.
  5. "Few of these clubs could take a beating". Daily Record: 22. 7 January 1939.
  6. "Football". Glasgow Herald: 7. 20 October 1873.
  7. "Alexandra Athletc v Blythswood". Glasgow Herald: 6. 25 November 1873.
  8. "Football in the Glasgow district". Glasgow Herald: 7. 20 December 1875.
  9. Charles Alcock Football Annual, entry for Dundee, 1871 and 1872
  10. "Football - The Cup Tie". North British Daily Mail: 3. 14 October 1876.
  11. "Rangers 3-0 Alexandra Athletic". Fitba Stats. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  12. "Football". Courier & Argus: 6. 21 September 1883.
  13. "Arbroath v Alexandra Athletics (Glasgow)". Courier & Argus: 4. 18 February 1884.
  14. "Few of these clubs could take a beating". Daily Record: 22. 7 January 1939.
  15. Charles Alcock Football Annuals 1873-77



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Der Alexandra Athletic Football Club war ein schottischer Fußballverein aus Glasgow, der von 1873 bis 1884 bestand.
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