Track and Field: The Sports Meetings

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 

  Queen’s Park FC and 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