They originally played at Kinning Park on a field rented from a Mr Tweedie, a "cow feeder", close to the present site of Shields Road subway station, which had previously been used by Wallace-grove.
[6] By the following decade the area had transformed into a rapidly growing industrial suburb, to the extent that it gained independent burgh status in 1871.
With many more trying to view the game from outside the ground, a shed roof behind the west goal with two hundred people atop it collapsed, although there were no serious injuries.
[8] Two weeks prior to the Wednesday match, Clydesdale had hosted Rangers at Kinning Park, and it was they who became the ground's new tenants later that year.
[10] The move to Kinning Park saw Rangers first begin to establish themselves in the south-western fringe of Glasgow where they would make their permanent home.
[14] With Kinning Park again chosen to host the replay, measures were taken to improve the spectator accommodation, with two temporary stands and new barriers being erected, while Rangers sought to prevent people climbing onto their clubhouse roof — as at the first game — by having it freshly tarred.
On this occasion, the gates were locked with approximately ten thousand people inside, while perhaps half as many again watched from outside, including from trucks on the adjacent railway and from the windows of surrounding buildings.
[15] Rangers continued to play at Kinning Park for the next six years, suffering their all-time record defeat there on 6 February 1886, losing 10–2 to Airdrieonians in a friendly match.
During their final season at the ground they reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup,[nb 3] with the last competitive game at Kinning Park being their 5–1 quarter-final win over Old Westminsters on 19 February 1887, watched by between five and six thousand spectators.
Clydesdale Harriers, Scotland's first open amateur athletics club, were formed in 1885 and initially used the ground for training and events, as they had a significant membership overlap with Rangers; they would later follow them to Ibrox.