History
Petershill Football and Athletic Club were formed on Friday 4th June 1897
at a meeting in Thomson’s Coffee house, Castle Street in the Townhead district of
Glasgow. At a meeting in the same venue three weeks earlier, St. Mungo’s Juniors
were disbanded after a disastrous season in the Glasgow Junior League. At the end
of the meeting, it was stated that anyone interested in forming a new club on a wider
scale, to represent the Springburn and Townhead area, should sign their name on a
sheet of paper as they left the meeting. Over twenty signatures were obtained, and
along with several other interested football fans, the “Peasy” were born. The first
officials of the club were as follows: -
President: J. H. Potter Vice President: P.J. Lavery
Secretary: John Baxter Treasurer: Stephen Pullman
Match Secretary: Archie Blue
The club colours of maroon shirts and white shorts were adopted at the suggestion
of the match secretary Archie Blue, who was an ardent Hearts fan, and they remain
the club colours to this day. Arrol Park, home ground of the defunct St. Mungos,
was acquired, and remained the home ground for the first six seasons. In the first
season, Petershill entered the Scottish, Glasgow and North Eastern Cups. They lost
4-
The club were elected to the Glasgow Junior League for season 1898-
The post war years were a real “boomtime” for junior football, but Petershill
in particular had their own peak in the 1950‘s, with 21 honours being won, with only
1957 being a barren year. The club had lost out to Auchinleck Talbot in the 1949
Scottish Junior Cup final, but they won their 4th Junior Cup in 1951, in front of
a record Hampden crowd of 77,560, they beat Irvine Meadow XI by 1-
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