Maxwell F.C.

Former association football club in Scotland

Football club

Maxwell

Full name

Maxwell Football Club

Founded

1878

Dissolved

1882

Ground

Norwood Park

Secretary

R. Thomson Wilson

Home colours

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

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

Andrew Watson (footballer, born 1856), Scottish international football player; and the first black association football player.

References

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