The
Tartan Army
Squad for the match against England April 1962 |
Player |
Birthdate |
Age |
Pos |
Club |
App |
G |
Baxter, James Curran |
29 September 1939 |
22 |
LHB |
Rangers FC |
8 |
0 |
Brand, Ralph Laidlaw |
8 December 1936 |
25 |
IL |
Rangers FC |
7 |
7 |
Brown, William Dallas Fyfe |
8 October 1930 |
31 |
G |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
13 |
23ᵍᵃ |
Caldow, Eric |
14 May 1934 |
27 |
LB |
Rangers FC |
35 |
2 |
Crerand, Patrick Timothy |
19 February 1939 |
23 |
RHB |
The Celtic FC |
7 |
0 |
Divers, John |
8 March 1940 |
22 |
IF |
The Celtic FC |
0 |
0 |
Hamilton, Alexander William |
31 January 1939 |
23 |
RB |
Dundee FC |
2 |
0 |
Kennedy, James |
31 January 1934 |
28 |
LB |
The Celtic FC |
0 |
0 |
Law, Denis |
24 February 1940 |
22 |
IL |
Torino FC, Italy |
13 |
5 |
Law was added to the squad when he was released by his club on 9 April |
Leslie, Lawrence G. |
17 March 1935 |
27 |
G |
West Ham United FC, England |
5 |
9ᵍᵃ |
MacKay, Duncan |
14 July 1937 |
24 |
RB |
The Celtic FC |
13 |
0 |
Mackay, David Craig |
14 November 1934 |
27 |
RHB |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
15 |
2 |
McNeill, William |
2 March 1940 |
22 |
CHB |
The Celtic FC |
2 |
0 |
Millar, James |
21 December 1927 |
34 |
FB |
Rangers FC |
0 |
0 |
Quinn, Patrick |
26 April 1936 |
25 |
IF |
Motherwell FC |
3 |
1 |
Scott, Alexander Silcock |
22 November 1936 |
25 |
OR |
Rangers FC |
9 |
5 |
St. John, Ian |
7 June 1938 |
23 |
CF |
Liverpool FC, England |
11 |
6 |
Ure, John Francombe |
7 December 1939 |
22 |
CH |
Dundee FC |
2 |
0 |
White, John Alexander |
28 April 1937 |
24 |
IR |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
13 |
2 |
Wilson, David |
10 January 1939 |
23 |
OL |
Rangers FC |
9 |
2 |
Squad details correct up to
and including Scotland's match against Czechoslovakia on 29 November 1961. Tallies from
SFA
Diary
Wednesday, 28 March 1962 - Scotland's
International Selection Committee
have chosen nineteen players from which they will choose eleven to face
England at Hampden Park on 14 April. Only three are not already full
Internationals - The Celtic's Kennedy and Divers, and Rangers' Millar. The
announcement was made shortly after it became known that Celtic and
Rangers would play their postponed Scottish League game on April 10, four
days before the International.
Wednesday, 4 April 1962 -
Denis Law, Torino's brilliant Scottish Internationalist inside forward,
may be able to play for Scotland against England, it was announced
yesterday by Mr W. P. Allan, the secretary of the Scottish Football
Association. He siad that he had been telephoned yesyerday by Mr G.
Peronace, and official of the Torino club. Mr Peronace said that Turin
would be prepared to release Law if his club came through their match on
Sunday without any serious injuries and provided that they had enough fit
players to fulfill their fixture the following Sunday. The SFA are
expecting a definite reply to their request on Monday.
Monday, 9 April 1962 -
Torino today gave Denis Law permission to play for Scotland against
England. The club's announcement said that Law would leave for London by
plane tomorrow morning and return on Tuesday. The SFA will choose their
team to play England tomorrow.
Tuesday, 10 April 1962 -
Rangers and Celtic between them provide six of the players in the Scotland
team to meet England on Saturday. The selection is as expected. Law
replaces Brand, and the only other change from the side who beat Wales in
November is at centre-half, where McNeill regains his place in preference
to Ure. The reserve in attendance will be Tottenham's Dave Mackay, who
with Celtic's Duncan MacKay, Dundee's Ure and Motherwell's Paddy Quinn,
will accompany the team to Kilmacolm for training. Tottenham Hotspur,
who have Brown, White and Mackay, with the Scotland party and Greaves and
Smith playing for England have been granted postponement of their league
match with Leicester City on Saturday. It was also announced by Mr W.P.
Allan that there will be no close-season tour for the Scottish
International team this season.
Wednesday, 11 April 1962 -
Denis Law has been fined 24,000 lire, about �14, and warned by the Italian
League for"incorrect behaviour towards an opposing player", the league
announced today.
Friday, 13 April 1962 -
Dave Mackay, Scotland's travelling reserve, was sent to bed with inflenza
after training yesterday with his colleagues on the St. Mirren ground,
Paisley. The Spurs wing half complained of feeling unwell during the two
hour training session and a doctor was called. He ordered Mackay to bed
and he was placed in a room of his own so as to avoid the risk of
infection to the other players. A SFA spokesman said that if Mackay was
still unfit this morning then they would nominate a replacement as reserve
in attendance.
Saturday, 14 April 1962 -
The eightieth International football match between Scotland and England
will, if the management committee of the English Football League get their
way, be the last that will be played on a Saturday. Among the recently
published proposals of that body in connection with trying to win back
missing spectators is one that all International matches be played in
midweek. The SFA have no intention of agreeing with such a proposal, and
many of us are glad of that.
Scotland
Form: last six
games |
W
L
W W W L
f
16:a 11
success: 67% |
284 |
7 May 1961 - Republic of Ireland 0 Scotland
3 [0-2] Dalymount
Park, Dublin |
Young (2), Brand |
WCP |
AW |
285 |
14 May 1961 - Czechoslovakia 4 Scotland
0 [3-0] Teheln� pole, Bratislava |
Pospichal (2), Kvasnak (pen), Kadraba |
AL |
286 |
26 September 1961 - Scotland 3 Czechoslovakia 2
[1-1] Hampden Park, Glasgow |
John, Law (2)
Kvasnak, Scherer |
HW |
287 |
7 October 1961 - Northern Ireland 1 Scotland
6 [1-3] Windsor
Park, Belfast |
McLaughlin Wilson, Scott
(3), Brand (2) |
BC |
AW |
288 |
8 November 1961 - Scotland 2 Wales 0
[1-0] Hampden Park, Glasgow |
John (2) |
BC |
HW |
289 |
29 November 1961 - Czechoslovakia 4 Scotland 2
[0-1] AET
Stade
du Heysel, Bruxelles |
Hledik, Scherer, Pospichal, Kvasnak
John (2) |
WC PO |
NL |
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