Union F.C. (Dumbarton)
Union Football Club was an association football club based in the town of Dumbarton, in West Dunbartonshire. History The club was founded in 1882, and was often referred to as Union (Dumbarton) or Dumbarton Union to avoid confusion with other Union clubs, such as Union (Glasgow). Given the strength of the three main Dumbartonshire sides (Renton, Vale of Leven, and Dumbarton, as well as other well-established clubs in the area such as Jamestown and the Vale of Leven Wanderers, it was difficult for Union to establish itself. It spent three years playing minor football before joining the Scottish Football Association and being eligible to enter the Scottish Cup in 1885–86. Its first match in the competition was a 5–1 defeat against Yoker, at the Dalmuir Thistle ground on account of Yoker's temporary homelessness, but, after a protest that the ground was 7 feet too narrow at one end, Union won the replayed tie (at Dumbarton Athletic's Burnside Park) 1–0, much to the surpise of the "friends of the Union", expecting the much heavier Yoker side to win, but taking advantage of Yoker's lack of practice, and enjoying a slice of fortune when a late goal-bound Yoker shot was stopped accidentally