Burnbank Training Grounds
Many of the main sports meetings at the start of the amateur era were organised by the principal football clubs and links to most of these and others are immediately below. There are also links articles on topics important to the origins of the sport at the very bottom of the page. If you want something about athletics in the pre-amateur era, then go to Track and Field: At the Start
Regular Sports Meetings
Queen’s Park Sports 1886 – 1890 Queen’s Park Sports: 1891 – 1895 Queen’s Park Sports: 1896 – 1902 Queen’s Park Sports 1907 – 1914 Queens Park Sports 1919 – 1925 Queen’s Park Sports 1926 – 1929 Queens Park FC Sports: 1930 – 1938
The First Rangers Sports Rangers Sports: 1890 – 94 Rangers Sports: 1895 – 99 Rangers Sports: 1900-1909 Rangers Sports: 1910 – 1920 Rangers Sports: 1920 – 1929 Rangers Sports: 1930-1939 Programme for the 1958 Sports
Rangers Highland Games SAAA Championships at Ibrox
Celtic Sports: 1890 – 94 Celtic Sports: 1895 – 1899 Celtic Sports: 1900-1910 Celtic Sports: 1911 – 1920 Celtic Sports: 1918-1935
SAAA Championships at Celtic Park
St Mirren FC Sports: 1881 – 1887 .
Clyde FC Sports: 1885-1895 Clyde FC Sports: 1911-1918
Greenock Glenpark Harriers Sports: 1914 -1919 Greenock Glenpark Harriers Sports: 1920 – 1929
Clydesdale Harriers Sports: 1887-1895 Clydesdale Harriers Sports 1896-1900 Clydesdale Harriers Sports 1901-1905 Clydesdale Harriers Sports 1906-1910 Clydesdale Harriers Sports 1911 – 1915
[ Glasgow Police Sports 1920-29 ] [ Glasgow Police Sports 1930-39 ] [Glasgow Police Sports: 1947 – 62 ]
Glasgow Tramways Sports: 1925 – 1939 Glasgow Transport Sports 1946 – 1971
Heart of Midlothian Sports 1881 – 1884 Heart of Midlothian Sports 1885 – 1890 .
Lanark Rifle Volunteers University Sports: 1930 University Sports: 1931 .
West of Scotland Cricket Club Sports: 1870 – 1880 WSCC Sports: 1881 – 1889
Relays
The Wyoming Cup SAAA Medley Relay Championship: 1919-1929 SAAA Medley Relay Championship: 1930-34 SAAA Medley Relay: 1935-1939
SAAA Medley Relay: 1948-58 SAAA Medley Relay: 1959-67 SAAA Medley Relay: 1969-1974 SAAA Medley Relay: 1975 – 1980
Some Programmes
Clydesdale Harriers Sports at Celtic Park 1905 Clydesdale Harriers Sports at Celtic Park 1906 Clydesdale Harriers Sports at Ibrox Park, 1909 Clydesdale Harriers Sports at Kilbowie Park, 1914 .
Clydesdale Harriers Sports at Dunoon 1905 Clydesdale Harriers Sports at Dunoon 1907
Clydesdale Harriers Sports at Ibrox Park, 1921 Clydesdale Harriers Sports at Clydeholm Park, 1927
Clydesdale Harriers Championships at Ibrox Park 1914: May and August
John Brown’s Welfare Sports, 1949 Motherwell YMCA Sports, 1949 Celtic Sports 1935
.Rangers Sports, 1936 (50th) Rangers Sports, 1962 (the last ever) .
Lanarkshire Constabulary Sports 1960 .
Early History
Aberdeenshire Early History 1 . Before The Clubs .Early Days, Unusual Races!
Football Clubs and Athletics 1870-1879 Football and Athletics in 1913 Fifty Years Of Athletics
Clydesdale Harriers 1890 – 1900 Clydesdale Harriers 1901 – 1910 Clydesdale Harriers 1911-1922
… and Shrubb’s one hour of world glory at Ibrox in 1904 is here