Hampden Park was the biggest stadium in the world when it opened on 31st October 1903 and has been used for rugby, athletics, tennis, baseball, speedway and boxing.
Queen's Park FC held their amateur athletic sports at the ground from 1908 for a few years after they moved into the ground, the program typically included five running races and two bicycle handicap races over half and one mile. Glasgow High School, Allan Glen's school and the Boy Scouts held their sports meeting at the ground for several decades.
There does not seem to have been any good quality bicycle racing at the track, Celtic Park seems to have been the most popular nearby venue and bicycle racing was itself losing popularity by this time. The reason for the death of bicycle track racing because of ‘crawling' was well described in the Scottish Daily Record on 10th July 1929, "...the trouble was that they endeavoured to win (the titles) by cat and mouse tactics rather than by out and out speed. Every race, no matter the distance, developed into a play of wits, each competitor watching the other at a crawling pace until it came to a rush for the finishing post."
The Queen's Park FC annual sports resumed after the First World War in 1922, but the attendance was low, with some 3,000 spectators. In the one mile cycle race there were six heats, but in the final, all the riders were disqualified because they were outside the three minutes time limit.
At the sports meeting on 27th May 1933, there was a single cycle handicap race over half a mile, which was won by WW Tagg of the Ivy CC off scratch, attendance was very poor at under 4,000 and Queen's Park FC expected to make a loss on the meeting.
The Queen's Park annual sports continued in the 1930s, but without any bicycle races and there were not many other meetings. At the British Police Sports in 1934 FH ‘Harry' Wyld** of Derby and S Chambers of Hove raced in the half and one mile races. The Police Sports continued until the late 1940s, this was probably the last bicycle racing at Letherby Drive.
Hamden Park was used as an athletics stadium for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2018 the Scottish FA bought the stadium from Queen's Park, who moved next door into Lesser Hampden stadium. Hampden Park is a major pop concert venue
Celtic played their home games at Hampden Park during the 1994-95 season when their ground was being re-developed, it cost Celtic £500,000 in rent. Rangers played their opening games of the 2024-25 season at Hampden Park due to ongoing construction work at Ibrox.
** Harry Wyld was a top track rider of the 1920s, he won a bronze medal in the 50km race at the 1924 Paris Olympics. Harry, along with his three brothers, won the National Team Pursuit title three years running from 1926 and three of them along with Frank Southall rode in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and won bronze.
