Second ground at Kinning Park, located just to the west of the General Terminus Railway at the corner of Lambhill Street and West Scotland Street, rented from Mr Meiklewham. Membership doubled. First match played on 30th June, against Barrhead; Clydesdale beaten by an innings and 35 runs! Second match on 25th October!

Second ground at Kinning Park, located just to the west of the General Terminus Railway at the corner of Lambhill Street and West Scotland Street, rented from Mr Meiklewham. Membership doubled. First match played on 30th June, against Barrhead; Clydesdale beaten by an innings and 35 runs! Second match on 25th October!

Club’s first professional: Englishman Edwin Temple Pierce. These early pros were paid 30 shillings to £2 per week.

1851 18th-20th September: first of a series of annual ‘international’ matches at Kinning Park, between a XXII of Scotland (including 13 of Clydesdale) and an All-England XI, attended by 7,000 to 8,000 spectators, with a grandstand, tents and stalls – including the printing tent providing scorecards and run by Fred Lillywhite of London. Glasgow (109 and 46), England (91 and 31): Glasgow won by 33 runs. The most remarkable statistic was the 20 wickets taken by pace bowler Johnny Wisden, ‘the little wonder’ who founded the famous almanac a few years later

New Clydesdale member: John McNeill, who developed into the best batsman of his era (and, in 1879, the first president of the Scottish Cricket Union). There were now more than 100 members, and two teams were being regularly fielded. A third, social, team – the ‘Clydesdale Slashers’ – soon followed.gle Content

New Clydesdale member: Ebenezer Hendry, stylish batsman, footballer who played against Queen’s Park, Clydesdale administrator and faithful servant until he died in 1913; his son, John W Hendry, became president of Clydesdale and of the Scottish Cricket Union; and his grandson, Gordon, was also a member.

John McNeill registered the highest-ever score against All-England XI (36) and Archie Campbell took six England wickets: in the England team was Edgar Willsheer of Kent, whose bowling action in a match at The Oval later in the season led to the Law being changed to allow overarm actions. This year marked Clydesdale’s rise to the top of Scottish cricket, with victories over Grange and Perth, and frequent totals over 200.

First match between Clydesdale and West of Scotland, at Kinning Park, won by West by 34 runs. Clydesdale won the return game by 56 runs. There then followed more than a decade of frosty relations between the two clubs, with no matches played between them!

Football had already become the popular winter. The Rangers club was ‘gratified’ to be given a game against what they considered to be ‘one of the four great teams of the day’ (the others being Queen’s Park, Third Lanark Rifles and Vale of Leven). At the foundation of the Scottish Football Association, Archie Campbell was elected the first president, with two other Clydesdale men, Ebenezer Hendry and William Gibb, also on the committee.