Wanderers (1879)

Formed in St Joseph's Hall by the junior section of the Irish League and Young Men's Society. Playing on the Magdalen Green, Wanderers formed a friendly rivalry with Harp. It was not long before the Wanderers Committee suggested an amalgamation with Harp. This coming together was perhaps one of the most significant events in the early history of football in the city. 

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The new team, still called Harp rather than anything new, was now armed with the personnel to take on the best the county, and country, could throw at them. 

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This solidarity with their fellow Irishmen is quite understandable. When Harp won the Burns Charity Cup in 1883-84, at the post match function the compere lamented the fact a 'Scotch' club never secured the trophy. This amalgamation allowed Harp to become the most formidable team to come out of Forfarshire during the amateur era, and become a household name across the country. 

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Wanderers played in green jerseys and 'buckskin' (tan/gold) shorts and must have cut dashing figures on the football field. Wanderers are a little known club that paved the way for one of Dundee's best known sides - the 'invincible' Dundee Harp side of the mid 1880s -a club still being talked about today - over 120 years after their demise.