Saturday sees two city derbies in Glasgow
South of the Clyde Rangers take on the only amateur club playing in British Professional Soccer the mighty Spiders Queens Park whilst in the leafy west end Hills host Hawks at the revamped Hughenden

This derby match goes back a century and more as the fixture list attached shows when Hills used Scotstoun as their home
Quote from Hillhead Sports Club website
“What” say the Ancients, “do they know of the Hillhead Club who never Scotstoun knew?”

Initially the Club catered for many sports, including football, cricket (ladies initially!), ladies hockey and athletics, with the strongest section strangely being the Literary and Debating Society! Having no grounds on which to play, the club negotiated to base itself at the Glasgow Agricultural Society's Showgrounds at Scotstoun (now Scotstoun Stadium ) which provided a home for many Glasgow rugby clubs at that time

Hillhead have produced a long line of rugby personalities including Ian Macgregor who also played for the RAF Llanelli and Scotland and then became a Scottish Selector and Ming Campbell who captained the British Athletics team at the Tokyo Olympics, set a British record for 100 m whilst at Stanford Uni ,led the Lib Dems and also won a Twickenham Sevens medal in the colours of London Scottish
I would like to have seen Ming at his best take on Thom Evans ( now being coached by Margot Wells)to decide the fastest man out of Hughenden and there were a few of them

In the hunt for this honour two more Hughenden fast men come into the frame in the form of Robin and Copey Murdoch
Robin an inter city man with devastating speed who was British 220yds Champion twice and finished 5th in the final of the Empire Games in 1934(could do with him in 2014) Robin could only play on one wing as he could only see properly out of one eye

His brother Copey who had an international career which extended to 13 years and five days, longer than any other Scotland player having had it interrupted by Hitler. It started in 1935 and ended in 1948


The Jordonhill part of the equation takes you down an enirely different route with FPs and College alike with names that embrace Hawks connections like John Roxburgh Jimmy Sinclair and the sadly missed Charlie Forsyth
The College team represented that august body the Scottish School of Physical Education which turned out PE teachers for the nation and could count amongst its luminaries the likes of the past president of the SRU Ian McLauchlan
College were legendary for their methods of physical and mental preparation under the likes of Bill Dickinson whose attitude would flourish in the hard edged world of todays professional era

KO at Hughenden 3.00pm

This article was originally posted on 17-Oct-2012, 07:33 by Hugh Barrow.
Last updated by Hugh Barrow on 17-Oct-2012, 10:20.