10th Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers F.C.

Association football club in Glasgow City, Scotland July 2015 July 2015 10th D.R.V. 10th Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers Football Club the Volunteers 1874 1882 Holm Park President Lt Sandeman10th D.R.V. (Kirkintilloch) Club North British Daily Mail 20 August 1877 6 Secretary Andrew Matson _thinnavyhoops _thinnavyhoops _thinnavyhoops _hoops_navy FF0000 FF0000 FF0000 ffffff FF0000 The 10th Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers Football Club, known as Kirkintilloch Athletic Football Club from 1879 until the club was wound up in 1882, was a 19th-century association football club based in Kirkintilloch in Dunbartonshire. History The club was formed out of the 10th Dumbartonshire 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. 10th D.R.V. The 10th D.R.V. was formed in 1874,Club Directory http://sfha.org.uk/club-directory.htm Scottish Football Historical Results Archive 27 October 2022 in the vanguard of other Volunteer regimental sides. Its first recorded match against another side was the first round of the 1876–77 Scottish Cup,Scottish Football Association North British Daily Mail 13 September 1876 7 losing 4–0 at Star of Leven. In 1877–78, the club was again drawn against the Star, but this time gained a walkover victory, when the Star walked off the pitch in protest at a second goal being given to the 10th.10th D.R.V. v Star of Leven North British Daily Mail 1 October 1877 6 In the second round, the club lost 3–0 at Renton. The difficulties the Volunteers had as a competitive outfit were its narrow recruitment base (although the club secretary and treasurer, Andrew Matson, worked at the National Bank of Scotland) and the strength of the three leading clubs in Dunbartonshire, who all made the Scottish Cup final repeatedly over the 1870s and 1880s. In the 1878–79 Scottish Cup, the club was drawn at Dumbarton F.C., and lost 8–1, the defeat being put down to a lack of teamwork.Association Cup ties North British Daily Mail 30 September 1878 3 Kirkintilloch Athletic In 1879 therefore club sought to widen its appeal beyond the Volunteer movement, and changed its name to Kirkintilloch Athletic,Association Cup Tie Contests Glasgow Herald 12 November 1879 7 although the link with the regiment remained strong, the 10th D.R.V. instrumental band providing the pre-match entertainment for a friendly with Falkirk which opened the 1879–80 season.Kirkintilloch Athletic v Falkirk Glasgow Evening Post 8 September 1879 4 Under the new name, the club entered the 1879–80 Scottish Cup, and, after getting a bye in the first round, were seemingly knocked out in the second by Jamestown F.C., 1–0. However, after Jamestown beat Lennox F.C. in the third round, Lennox protested that four Jamestown players were not bona fide members of the Jamestown club. After the Scottish FA committee heard the evidence, the effect of the ruling was the expulsion of Jamestown from the competition ab initio, meaning that Jamestown's first-round victim - the Star of Leven - was put back into the second round, to play Kirkintilloch, in order for the right to meet Lennox in the third round.Blue And White The Football Days of Johnny Forbes Blackburn Weekly Standard 29 December 1894 6 Kirkintilloch made the most of the reprieve, beating Star 5–2 in the second round,Kirkintilloch Athletic v Star of Leven (Cup tie) Glasgow Herald 17 November 1879 7 and Lennox in the third 6–2.Football Glasgow Herald 24 November 1879 7 The run ended in the fourth round with a 5–1 defeat at 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.Association Cup ties North British Daily Mail 1 December 1879 7 It was the club's best run in the competition. In 1880–81 the club was drawn, again, to face Star of Leven, and lost 3–2, having been 2–1 up with ten minutes remaining;Kirkintilloch (Athletic) v Star of Leven Glasgow Herald 20 September 1880 6 and in the 1881–82 Scottish Cup the clubs were drawn together yet again, but by the time the competition kicked off, the Athletic was defunct. The name was revived in 1885 for another club. Colours The club originally wore navy and red hoops. In 1879, with the name change, the club changed colours to white. Grounds The club originally played at Holm Park, near Townhead in Kirkintilloch.Kirkintilloch 10th D.R.V. v Milngavie Glasgow Herald 26 February 1877 5 From 1878 the club played at Bellfield Park.Matches played on Saturday Glasgow Herald 14 October 1878 7 References collapsed Category:Defunct football clubs in Scotland Category:Association football clubs established in 1874 Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 1879 Category:1874 establishments in Scotland Category:1879 disestablishments in Scotland Category:Military football clubs in Scotland Category:Kirkintilloch Category:Football in East Dunbartonshire