[2] In 1877, the combined membership of the cricket and football sections donated 11/6 to a relief fund in aid of locked-out Clyde dockyard workers.

[5] The new association set up the West of Scotland Cup which Wellpark, playing on the public Glasgow Green,[6] duly entered.

[8] It also played in the second (and last) West of Scotland Cup in 1878–79, losing to Partick Thistle in a semi-final replay.

Reality bit in the second round when the club visited the 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, and "from the commencement of the game it became apparent that the Wellpark were overmatched", the one bright spark in an 8–1 defeat being Chalmers' "fine run" resulting in him "sending the leather past the keeper".

[13] On turning senior, it became one of many which played at a ground called Dalmarnock Park; the Wellpark's was off Mordaunt Street, 5 minutes' walk from Bridgeton Cross.