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Maxwell F.C.

Maxwell F.C.

Former association football club in Scotland

Maxwell F.C. was a nineteenth-century Glasgow-based senior football club.

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History

The club was founded in 1878 and its first fixtures are reported from the 1879–80 season.[1] In 1880, after a season in which the club won 11 of 17 matches,[2] it joined the Scottish Football Association.

The club only played one season of senior football. Maxwell's only match in the Scottish Cup was a 6–0 defeat in the first round of the 1880–81 tournament to Oxford of Crosshill in the first round; it was the Oxford's only win in the competition in seven seasons.[3]

The club is notable for being the first club of the first black football player, Andrew Watson.[4] Another Maxwell player - Louis Baretto[5] - was a lascar sailor born in Bombay.[6]

Colours

The club wore navy and white hooped jerseys and hose, with white knickers.[7]

Ground

The club had a private ground at Norwood Park, on Dumbreck Road, near Haggs Castle.[8] By 1882 it was the ground of Granton,[9] and of Sir John Maxwell, which was founded in the same year as the Maxwell, although it joined the Scottish Association separately in 1882.

Notable former players

References

  1. [1]
    "Maxwell v Hayborn". North British Daily Mail: 7. 15 December 1879.
  2. [2]
    Fleming, J. S. (1880). Scottish Association Football Annual 1880–81. Gillespie Brothers. p. 39.
  3. [3]
    "Oxford v Maxwell, Pollokshields". Glasgow Herald: 3. 13 September 1880.
  4. [4]
    Heffernan, Conor (19 April 2016). "Andrew Watson: the silent pioneer for black footballers".
  5. [5]
    "Maxwell Football Club (Pollokshields)". North British Daily Mail: 7. 17 May 1880.
  6. [6]
    "Louis Baretto in the 1881 Scotland Census". ancestry. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  7. [7]
    Fleming, J. S. (1880). Scottish Association Football Annual 1880–81. Gillespie Brothers. p. 39.
  8. [8]
    Fleming, J. S. (1880). Scottish Association Football Annual 1880–81. Gillespie Brothers. p. 39.
  9. [9]
    M'Dowall, John (1882). Scottish Football Association Annual 1882–83. Glasgow: W. Weatherston. p. 136.


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