This impressive memorial in Glasgow Necropolis (city of the dead) pays tribute to a former secretary of the Scottish Football Association, William Dick.
He died in 1880 aged just 29, after five years in post. He was quite an influential man, as founder and editor of the Scottish Football Annual in 1875; Queen's Park played Clapham Rovers in a benefit match a month after his death, representing the Scottish and English cup holders.
What is particularly interesting about the gravestone is the detailed carving, which is one of the earliest such representations of a football in existence. The grave is in the part of the Necropolis known as the quarry, at its southern edge.
He died in 1880 aged just 29, after five years in post. He was quite an influential man, as founder and editor of the Scottish Football Annual in 1875; Queen's Park played Clapham Rovers in a benefit match a month after his death, representing the Scottish and English cup holders.
What is particularly interesting about the gravestone is the detailed carving, which is one of the earliest such representations of a football in existence. The grave is in the part of the Necropolis known as the quarry, at its southern edge.
Update: an earlier carving of a football is in Wardsend Cemetery, Sheffield, in memory of a footballer called George Beaumont who was killed during a match on Christmas Day 1877. Click here to read his tragic story.
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