Andrew McIntyre was from 1874 another of that first wave of the pioneering Vale of Leven team, who was to spend his whole life in and around Dunbartonshire's Alexandria. His father, John, was a Printfield Hand, his mother a McFarlane, another footballing, family name from the town.  

Andy was born in 1855, so aged seventeen in 1872 when Queen's Park's demonstration took place at Park Neuk. He was then an Engine Fitter, who in time would become a Mechanical Engineer, working in the local print- and dye-fields. And he was also about to start a footballing career that would see him as a robust full-back win three Scottish Cup Finals, the third with another McIntyre, James, also in the team at half-back, two in tandem with Sandy McLintock, lose one in 1884 and be awarded two Scottish caps, in 1878 and 1882, both large wins.