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club originally based at
Pollokshields
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, in
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.
History
The club was founded in 1874 and took its name from the rock of
Ailsa Craig
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, and its first reported matches come from the 1875–76 season. It was one of the smaller Glasgow clubs, with a membership of 30 in 1876, more only than
Shawfield
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and
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at the time.
The club first entered the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1877–78, losing 2–0 to
Lenzie
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. Ailsa also lost in the first round the following year, 7–0 at
Govan
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, although the
North British Daily Mail
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report incorrectly referred to Ailsa as "Woodburn".
In the
1879–80 Scottish Cup
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, the club reached the third round; after a walkover in the first, Ailsa beat
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3–1, but lost 6–0 at
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in the third, even though Clyde played with ten men for the second half.
It was the club's last Cup fixture. Although it did enter the
1880–81 Scottish Cup
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, it scratched to the Good Templars Harmonic.
A new Ailsa club, with no known link to the original, played in
Anniesland
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in the 1892–93 season.
Colours
The club's colours were pale blue and white 1-inch hooped shirts and stockings, with white knickerbockers.
Ground
The club originally played at a private ground in Pollokshields. In 1878 the club moved to Buckingham Park off Copeland Road,
Govan
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