Full name | Maxwell Football Club | |
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Founded | 1878 | |
Dissolved | 1882 | |
Ground | Norwood Park | |
Secretary | R. Thomson Wilson | |
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Maxwell F.C. was a nineteenth-century Glasgow-based senior football club.
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]
The club wore navy and white hooped jerseys and hose, with white knickers. [7]
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.
Full name | Maxwell Football Club | |
---|---|---|
Founded | 1878 | |
Dissolved | 1882 | |
Ground | Norwood Park | |
Secretary | R. Thomson Wilson | |
|
Maxwell F.C. was a nineteenth-century Glasgow-based senior football club.
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]
The club wore navy and white hooped jerseys and hose, with white knickers. [7]
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.