List of minor Scottish Cup entrants (1873–1894)
football club
This is a list of association football clubs which entered the Scottish Cup between 1873 and 1894, when the Scottish Qualifying Cup was introduced, and which lack the prominence for their Wikipedia pages.
1st Dumfries Rifle Volunteers F.C.
History
The club was founded on 10 December 1881, out of the 1st Dumfriesshire 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. The 1st D.R.V. was re-organized under the Royal Scots Fusiliers in July 1881 and the football side seems to have emerged as a result of a larger pool of players, with 50 from which to choose.
The club tried to join the Scottish Football Association in June 1882, but was turned down for not having a private ground. It was finally admitted two months later, in time to enter the 1882–83 Scottish Cup. It had a lucky draw in the first round, as scheduled opponents Dumfries Academicals scratched. In the second, it was drawn to play one of the two strongest sides in the region, Queen of the South Wanderers, at Nunholm, and was 3–2 up at half-time, but lost 5–3.
The club did not enter the Churchill Cup for local sides, and seems to have given up the game, not renewing its Scottish FA membership at the end of the season.
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