List of minor Scottish Cup entrants (1873–1894)
This is a list of association football clubs which entered the Scottish Cup between 1873 and 1894, when the Scottish Qualifying Cup was introduced, and which lack the prominence for their Wikipedia pages.
1st Dumfries Rifle Volunteers F.C.
History
The club was founded on 10 December 1881, out of the 1st Dumfriesshire Rifle Volunteers, a company in the Volunteer movement of the British Army. The Volunteers included sporting activities within their purview and newspapers often carried reports of such activities. The growth of football in Scotland, especially thanks to Queen's Park F.C., and the success of army teams in England such as the Royal Engineers A.F.C., encouraged regiments to form football clubs as part of the physical regimen. The 1st D.R.V. was re-organized under the Royal Scots Fusiliers in July 1881 and the football side seems to have emerged as a result of a larger pool of players, with 50 from which to choose.The club tried to join the Scottish Football Association in June 1882, but was turned down for not having a private ground. It was finally admitted two months later, in time to enter the 1882–83 Scottish Cup. It had a lucky draw in the first round, as scheduled opponents Dumfries Academicals scratched. In the second, it was drawn to play one of the two strongest sides in the region, Queen of the South Wanderers, at Nunholm, and was 3–2 up at half-time, but lost 5–3.
The club did not enter the Churchill Cup for local sides, and seems to have given up the game, not renewing its Scottish FA membership at the end of the season. The Volunteer movement was already catered for by the 5th K.R.V. which had attracted a much greater membership – notably the 5th K.R.V.'s second XI had beaten the 1st D.R.V.'s first XI 5–1 in November 1882.
Colours
The club's colours were black and yellow.Ground
The club played at Noblehill Park, near Dumfries.10th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers F.C.
History
The 10th L.R.V. was a volunteer regiment football club, based in south-west Glasgow. It was founded in 1884, after most of the volunteer sides in Glasgow had ceased playing senior football. The 10th was formed out of the Glasgow Highlanders, which had been founded in 1868. The regiment had briefly played football when called the 105th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers in the mid-1870s.The club optimistically joined the Scottish Football Association in 1885, but scratched from its Scottish Cup entry when drawn to face St Andrew's. Perhaps accepting it was out of its depth in a nearly-professional age, the club did not renew its Scottish FA membership; indeed there are no records that the club ever played senior football outside a military environment.
Colours
The club wore navy blue jerseys, 42nd tartan knickers, and red stockings.Ground
The club played at Braehead Park on the Rutherglen Road, later the home of Thistle.Annfield F.C.
The Annfield club was drawn in the Glasgow section of the 1881–82 Scottish Cup against Eastern Athletic; the club had no prior history, and there is no record of it joining the Scottish Football Association, so its entry was surprising. The result of the tie is unclear, as the North British Daily Mail had two reports - one saying that Annfield had won 2–1 at home, the other that it had drawn 1–1 away - and the Glasgow Herald had that the tie was a draw, but at Annfield's ground.Whatever the score was, the tie was due to be replayed, but the club dissolved before it could take place. An Annfield Thistle is recorded as playing in Glasgow in 1880, and this may be the same club.
Ardrossan F.C.
History
The first match in the town was played in September 1870, and featured the Ardrossan Castle club demonstrating the sport at the head of Glasgow Street; on 24 September 1870, the Castle club beat the Ardrossan club 1–0, although it is not clear whether the match was under rugby or Association rules - the match featured touchdowns, which were part of the out-dated association set of laws which Queen's Park had been using. The match appears to have been a one-off, as the formal foundation of the club took place in September 1874, the first reported match being a defeat to Kilmarnock the following week. M'Auslane, who had played for the Castle in the 1870 match, was vice-captain for the Ardrossan, and Hughes, who had played for Ardrossan in the match, was also a member of the new club.The club's correspondence address was care of Barclay & Son Shipyards, suggesting its members were shipbuilders.
It entered the Scottish Cup on two occasions, in 1875–76 and 1876–77, but withdrew from the competition both times before playing. Its final reported match was a win over the Kilbirnie in April 1876.
Ground
The club played at a ground between Glasgow Street and Paisley Street.Blairadam F.C.
History
The club was founded in Kelty, in Fifeshire, 1882 as Blairadam Swifts, taking its name from Blairadam House, and it was one of the founder members of the Fifeshire Football Association. It played in the Fife Cup for most seasons from the competition's start in 1882–83 to 1890–91, but never won a tie. It did reach the last 4 in the competition's first iteration, but only after the team to which it lost in the first round, St Leonard's, fielded ineligible players, and, rather than re-playing the tie, ceded it to Blairadam; with 8 entrants the club was automatically advanced to the semi-final.The club dropped the Swifts epithet in 1883, and the club's official name became simply Blairadam, but it was sometimes stylized as Blair Adam. Blairadam was admitted to the Scottish Football Association in August 1890 and it entered the 1890–91 Scottish Cup. It was drawn away to Bo'ness F.C. but scratched. It also scratched from the Fife Cup that year, when drawn to face Cowdenbeath, and appears to have been one of the 18 clubs struck from the roll in 1891.
Colours
The club's colours were navy and light blue.Ground
The club's ground was never given with any greater precision than "Kelty". All traces had gone by the 1892 Ordnance Survey.Blairgowrie F.C.
History
The Blairgowrie Football Club from Blairgowrie and Rattray was formed in 1880. It suffered a blow almost straight after its formation, captain Christie breaking his collarbone in training.After playing five matches in its first season - with a record of 2 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats, scoring 4 goals and conceding 9 - it joined the Scottish Football Association in 1881. The club played one tie in the Scottish Cup, a 4–0 defeat to Coupar Angus in the first round in 1881–82. The final recorded game for the club was a 5–0 defeat at neighbours Rattray in February 1882, considered more "a series of tripping and foul charging", and the club was removed from the Scottish FA membership roll in 1882.
Colours
The club wore navy and white 1" hooped jerseys and hose, with white knickers, and anachronistcally included a navy and white striped cap.Ground
The club's ground was Games Park, adjoining Blairgowrie House, at the west end of Blairgowrie, about half a mile from Blairgowrie railway station, thanks to the generosity of Mr Macpherson of Blairgowrie.Blairvaddick F.C.
History
Blairvaddick F.C. was a short-lived association football club from Govan, in Glasgow. It was admitted as a member of the Scottish Football Association in 1886. The club appears to have been the footballing section of a cricket clubThe club's first match was a 5–0 defeat to Rutherglen on 4 September 1886, four of the goals coming in the last 15 minutes, A week later the club played in the Scottish Cup at Thistle, and was hammered 13–0; the score was only 1–0 in the 43rd minute and 2–0 at half-time.
The club's friendly matches included a home defeat to a 9-man Dykebar and a 9–2 loss to the Hamilton Academical second XI, shortly after which the club was the victim of a burglary after one Donald M'Millan, on two days, stole a football, three guernseys, a pair of boots, three hair-combs, and 48 pieces for a draughts board, for which he was sentenced to 3 months in prison. Blairvaddick finally picked up a win over Clydesdale in November, by 1 goal to 0.
Blairvaddick at least finished the season on something of a high; although it lost to Govan Athletic in the Govan Charity Cup, it beat Yoker in the Govan Jubilee Cup, a trophy for which just those two clubs originally competed, The original match, at Summerton Athletic's Victoria Park, was a six-goal thriller which Yoker came from 2–0 down to 3–2 up, and Blairvaddick rescued the game with "a combined rush" just before time. The replay, at the same venue, was won for Blairvaddick thanks to a late winner from Hughes. However, the success was Blairvaddick's last match; it was struck from the Scottish FA membership in 1887, and it gave up on football, although continued with the cricket.
Ground
The club played at Ibrox.Bridgend Athletic F.C.
History
The earliest match recorded for the Perth club is in March 1885, against the Perth Swifts. At the end of the month, the club resolved to join the Perthshire Association for the following season; its first appearance in the Perthshire Cup, in 1885–86, ended in a 10–1 defeat in the first round to the Vale of Teith.The club entered the county cup until 1888–89, although the club never won a tie; its only "success" coming in its final entry, when Guildtown Wanderers scratched to it in the first round.
The club joined the Scottish Football Association in August 1888, its name styled as Bridge-End Athletic. This entitled the club to enter the 1888–89 Scottish Cup, but it lost in the first round 6–1 at home to Coupar Angus, the Athletics scoring its goal in the first half, but conceding three in each.
Its run as a senior club was brief - in 1889 the club was struck from the Scottish FA register and the club gave up football owing to "want of support".