Ramblers Football Club was a 19th-century football club based in
Glasgow
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.
History
The club was founded in 1874. Its first recorded match was a 0–0 draw with Burnbank, and its first recorded goal and win came at
Hamilton Academical
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the following month.
The Ramblers entered the
Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1875–76. The club was drawn away to
Northern
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and lost by 4 goals, plus one disputed goal, to nil. The club entered the competition three times in total, losing in the first round on every occasion - its other appearances being a 6–0 (plus one disputed) loss at 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers in 1876–77, and a 1–0 defeat at home to Stonefield in 1877–78, in a "hard but pleasant game".
The club recorded winning 10 of its 18 matches in the 1876–77 season, and boasted a membership of 50 that season; however the club's last advertised match was against Blythswood in December 1877, but there is no report that the match took place. The final recorded match was a 2–0 defeat at Stonelaw the previous month, against a scratch side rather than the regular Stonelaw XI.
Colours
The club wore blue and black jerseys, white knickers, and blue and black hose.
Grounds
The club played originally at Queen's Park. By 1876 the club had a private ground at Lorne Park, on Victoria Road,
Crosshill, Glasgow
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History
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