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Parkgrove F.C. were a nineteenth-century Glasgow-based senior football club. They were based in Govan, Glasgow.[1]

Parkgrove
Full nameParkgrove Football Club
Founded1874
Dissolved1897
GroundKinning Park 1874-1876
Clifford Park 1876- 77
Trinidad Park 1877-1880

History


Originally the team played in red & blue colours (1874–79); but for the 1879–80 season they changed to a white shirt with thin black hoops.[1][2]

The club is notable for having two of the earliest known black footballers; Andrew Watson and Robert Walker. While at Parkgrove, Watson became the club's match secretary - making him also the first black administrator in association football.[3]

It was noted that Parkgrove played with a cosmopolitan team. Thomas Britten, a Welsh international football player, played for the club in 1878.[4] Another of its players, goalkeeper Tommy Marten, was noted as being from Japan although it was later established that he was half Chinese.[5]

The club made the fifth round of the Scottish Cup in 1879-80. They drew with South Western; but were beaten in the replay. South Western progressed to the Quarter-Finals but were beaten by Pollokshields Athletic.


Decline


The club couldn't make a game with Dunfermline F.C. on New Year's Day 1880.[6]

It was noted that Parkgrove moved out of their Trinidad Park ground in 1880. A notice of the ground at the Broomloan estate states that Parkgrove recently moved - and that the ground was now for let.[7][8] Kinning Park, home of Rangers at the time Parkgrove played at Trinidad Park, was fairly near;[5] The Gers moved to the first Ibrox Park, directly adjacent to the Trinidad site, in 1887.

The Scottish Referee noted on 8 October 1894 that they were asked to contradict a rumour that the Parkgrove club were about to collapse. It noted that the secretary advised that the club was in healthy condition and was likely to survive for many days.[9]

The club was still extant late that same year, playing Rangers on 15 December 1894 in the Kirkwood Shield competition.[10] They were still playing in 1896 as they were in a Partick Thistle-sponsored tournament in season 1896–97;[11] however, by August 1897, Parkgrove was listed by the Scottish Referee as one of the many defunct clubs of Glasgow.[12]


Notable former players



References


  1. "Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos". Archived from the original on 27 October 2009.
  2. "Eminent Victorians (Scotland)". Historical Football Kits.
  3. Heffernan, Conor (19 April 2016). "Andrew Watson: the silent pioneer for black footballers". These Football Times.
  4. "Parkgrove F.C., Glasgow - football club". eu-football.info.
  5. "Show Racism the Red Card - The world's earliest known black footballers". Show Racism the Red Card.
  6. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000478/18800103/017/0003 via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)(subscription required)
  7. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001458/18800416/035/0001 via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)(subscription required)
  8. Trinidad Park, Andrew Watson: Corinthian
  9. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/18941008/043/0003 via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)(subscription required)
  10. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/18941214/038/0003 via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)(subscription required)
  11. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/18960807/037/0003 via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)(subscription required)
  12. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001876/18970802/004/0001 via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)(subscription required)





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