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Ramblers

Full name	Ramblers Football Club
Founded	1874
Dissolved	1877
Ground	Lorne Park
Secretary	R. Macdougall Jr, Robert Telford
Captain	Slimmon
Home colours

Ramblers Football Club was a 19th-century football club based in Glasgow.

History

The club was founded in 1874. Its first recorded match was a 0–0 draw with Burnbank, and its first recorded goal and win came at Hamilton Academnical the following month.

The Ramblers entered the Scottish Cup for the first time in 1875–76. The club was drawn away to Northern and lost by 4 goals, plus one disputed goal, to nil. The club entered the competition three times in total, losing in the first round on every occasion - its other appearances being a 6–0 (plus one disputed) loss at 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers in 1876–77, and a 1–0 defeat at home to Stonefield in 1877–78, in a "hard but pleasant game".

The club recorded winning 10 of its 18 matches in the 1876–77 season, and boasted a membership of 50 that season; however the club's last advertised match was against Blythswood in December 1877, but there is no report that the match took place. The final recorded match was a 2–0 defeat at Stonelaw the previous month, against a scratch side rather than the regular Stonelaw XI.

Colours

The club wore blue and black jerseys, white knickers, and blue and black hose.

Grounds

The club played originally at Queen's Park. By 1876 the club had a private ground at Lorne Park, on Victoria Road, Crosshill, Glasgow, shared with Pollokshields Athletic.

References

1. Alcock, Charles (1876). Football Annual. p. 118.
2. "Burnbank v Ramblers". Glasgow Herald: 7. 23 November 1874.
3. "Ramblers v Hamilton Academical". North British Daily Mail: 3. 7 December 1874.
4. "Northern v Ramblers (Cup tie)". North British Daily Mail: 3. 18 October 1875.
5. "3d L.R.V. v Ramblers (Cup tie)". Scotsman. 2 October 1876.
6. "Ramblers v Stonefield". North British Daily Mail: 6. 1 October 1877.
7. Alcock, Charles (1877). Football Annual. p. 130.
8. "Local Football Fixtures". North British Daily Mail: 6. 27 November 1877.
9. "Stonelaw (Scratch) v Ramblers". North British Daily Mail: 3. 26 November 1877.
10. Alcock, Charles (1877). Football Annual. p. 130.
11. "Local Football Fixtures". North British Daily Mail: 3. 15 January 1876.
12. Alcock, Charles (1876). Football Annual. p. 118.

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