Match
Summary |
Officials
[umpires and referees are of equal relevance] |
Scotland |
Team Records |
England Party |
Umpires
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English and
Scottish, each wore stockings of different colours. This was, in the first
place, to indicate to a player in possession of the ball the positions of
his fellow-players on the field, by watching their pedal extremities; and,
secondly, to enable the spectators to identify a player by his
party-coloured stockings. Cards were issued by the Queen's Park, giving the
teams, and the colours of their stockings. |
Alexander Morten
42/43 (1831/32) Paddington. Crystal Palace FC |
William Keay
Queen's Park
FC |
played for England in 1873 |
the referee and a reserve in first match |
Referee Archibald
Rae
27 (10 October
1845), Glasgow, Lanarkshire (Hon.
Secretary of the Scottish FA) |
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Scotland
Team |
|
Rank |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
2nd |
Colours |
Dark
blue shirts, white shorts. |
Captain |
James Thomson other sources name Robert Gardner |
Selection |
The
Scottish Football Association Selection Committee |
only match, W 1 - D 0 - L 0 - F 2 - A 1 |
Scotland
Lineup |
1 |
Gardner, Robert |
26
280 days |
31 May 1847 |
G |
Clydesdale FC |
3 |
5ᵍᵃ
|
will be an umpire in the 1876 fixture |
oldest opposition gk
so far |
16 |
|
Hunter, John |
19/20 |
1854 |
Backs |
3rd Lanark Rifle Volunteers FC |
1 |
0 |
3 |
Taylor, Joseph |
23
81 days |
16 December 1850 |
Queen's Park FC |
3 |
0 |
final app
1872-74 |
17 |
|
Campbell, Charles |
20
46 days |
20 January 1854 |
Half Backs |
Queen's Park FC |
1 |
0 |
5 |
Thomson, James John |
22
72 days |
25 December 1851 |
Queen's Park FC |
3 |
0 |
6 |
Weir, James Biggar |
22
137 days |
21 October 1851 |
Forward |
Queen's Park FC |
2 |
0 |
18 |
|
Ferguson, John |
25
258 days |
22 June 1848 |
Vale of Leven FC |
1 |
0 |
19 |
|
McNiel, Henry |
20/21 |
1853 |
Queen's
Park FC |
1 |
0 |
9 |
MacKinnon, William Muir |
22
48 days |
18 January 1852 |
Queen's
Park FC |
3 |
0 |
20 |
|
McKinnon,
Angus |
22
327 days |
14 April 1851 |
Queen's
Park FC |
1 |
1 |
only app
1874 |
21 |
|
Anderson,
Frederick |
18
110 days |
17
November 1855 |
Clydesdale FC |
1 |
1 |
youngest opposition scorer
so far |
&
youngest opposition player so far |
only app
1874 |
reserves: |
David Wotherspoon (Clydesdale FC) and Robert Neill (Queen's Park FC). |
team changes: |
The original chosen team included Clydesdale FC's David Wotherspoon and Queen's Park
FC's
Robert Leckie. Their place went to John Ferguson and John Hunter. |
records: |
All four players that are making a third Scotland appearance are now
record appearance holders. And along with England's Charles Chenery,
they are international record holders. |
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2-2-6 |
Gardner -
Hunter, Taylor -
Campbell, Thomson -
Weir, Ferguson, McNiel, MacKinnon, McKinnon, Anderson. |
Averages: |
Age |
22 years
36-102 days |
Appearances/Goals |
1.8 |
0.2 |
youngest opposing team
until possibly 1885 |
most experienced opposing team
until next match |
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England
Team |
|
Rank |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
1st |
Colours |
White
shirts, white shorts and dark blue caps. |
Captain |
Cuthbert Ottaway |
Selection |
The Football Association Committee,
including Alfred Baker, with secretary
Charles
W. Alcock having the primary influence |
most captaincies
so far |
P 2 of 2, W 0 - D 1 - L 1 - F 1 - A 2 |
P 3 of 31, W 1 - D 1 - L 1 - F 5 - A 4 |
|
team chosen at The
Freemason's Tavern, on Thursday evening, 26 February 1874.
|
England
Lineup (a record-equalling nine
changes to the previous match) |
four |
|
Welch, Reginald Courtenay |
22
141 days |
17 October 1851 |
G |
Harrow Chequers FC |
2 |
2ᵍᵃ |
final app
1872-74 |
21 |
|
Ogilvie, Robert A.M.M. |
21
138 days |
20 October 1852 |
Full Backs |
Clapham
Rovers FC |
1 |
0 |
will be an umpire in the 1877 fixture |
only app
1874 |
22 |
|
Stratford,
Alfred H. |
20
183 days |
5 September 1853 |
Malvern College AFC &
Wanderers
FC |
1 |
0 |
oldest youngest player
so far |
only app
1874 |
23 |
|
Birley, Francis H. |
23
358 day |
14 March 1850 |
Oxford University AFC |
1 |
0 |
5 |
Ottaway, Cuthbert J. |
23
231 days |
19 July 1850
|
Forward |
Oxford University AFC |
2 |
0 |
final app
1872-74 |
24 |
|
Wollaston,
Charles H.R.
playing
with an injury |
24
219 days |
31 July 1849 |
Wanderers
FC, Lancing Old Boys &
Clapham
Rovers FC |
1 |
0 |
will be an umpire in 1879
& 1885 |
25 |
|
Kingsford, Robert K. |
24
74 days |
23 December 1849 |
Wanderers
FC,
Old Marlburians FC &
Crystal Palace FC |
1 |
1 |
only app 1874 |
26 |
|
Edwards, J. Hawley |
23
351 days |
21 March 1850 |
Shropshire
Wanderers FC &
Wanderers
FC |
1 |
0 |
only app 1874 |
27 |
|
Owen, John R.B. |
25
286 days |
25 May
1848 |
Sheffield FC |
1 |
0 |
oldest outfield player/oldest outfield
debutant so far |
only app 1874 |
10 |
Chenery, Charles J. |
24
65 days |
1
January 1850 |
|
Crystal Palace FC |
3 |
1 |
mst apps |
|
final app
1872-74 |
11 |
Heron, G. Hubert H. |
22
37 days |
30 January 1852 |
CF |
Uxbridge
FC, Wanderers
FC &
Swifts FC |
2 |
0 |
will be an umpire in the 1877 fixture |
reserves: |
Frederick Maddison (Oxford University AFC),
William
Henry Stacey
(Sheffield FC),
John
Berger van Sommer (Pilgrims FC) (van Sommer would be dead by the
end of the year) |
team changes: |
The original team included
Shropshire Wanderers FC's
John
George Wylie. His place
went to Hawley Edwards. Another source states that Alcock was also in
the original line-up, and that his place went to Wollaston. |
team notes: |
Charles Wollaston played with a knee injury
throughout this match. A week after this match, on 14 March 1874, AG Goodwyn
died in action in East India, becoming the first international
footballer to die. |
appearance
notes: |
Charles Chenery becomes the first
England player to appear in three consecutive appearances, and
therefore the first player to hold the England and international record appearances tally.
Alfred Stratford is the youngest player of the eleven starting the
match, the oldest to so (until 1876). A record eight
players will not play for England again. |
records: |
Robert Kingsford will be the
only Englishman to score at the West of Scotland Cricket Ground. A
new record is established in just the third game when Wanderers'
provided five of the starting XI.
England lose a match after being in a winning position for the first
time. |
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3(2-1)-7 |
Welch -
Ogilvie, Stratford -
Birley -
Owen, Edwards, Chenery, Kingsford, Heron, Ottaway, Wollaston. |
Averages: |
Age |
23
years 123 days |
Appearances/Goals |
1.5 |
0.2 |
most experienced team
until 1879 |
"In the evening the English team were entertained at a grand banquet
in the George Hotel, George-square. Mr. J. C. Wakefield, president of the
Clydesdale, taking the chair."
- Morning Post, Monday, 9 March
1874 |
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Match Report
Morning Post, Monday,
9 March 1874 |
This great international, played in accordance with the association
rules, took place on Saturday afternoon, on the West of Scotland Ground
at Partick, near Glasgow, and the weather being exceptionally fine and
pleasant there was an immense attendance of spectators, computed at
8,000. Mr. Ottaway, having won the toss, Scotland kicked off about 3.30
amidst a scene of great excitement. No sooner was the ball in motion
than the English carried it down to their opponents' citadel, Hubert
Heron, Kingsford, and Chenery making some vigorous onslaughts, which for
some time were successfully repelled. At length, however, after a
desperate mélée
in front of their lines, the ball being kicked on the breast of
Kingsford, it bounded off and went between their posts, thus crediting
England with the first goal. Ends were quickly reversed, and the Scotch,
stimulated by the cheers of their partisans, renewed the strife with
increased vigour, their efforts ultimately being crowned with success,
as Mr. F. Anderson succeeded in equalising matters by securing a goal.
Both sides fought grandly, but fortune favoured the Scotch, who shortly
afterwards obtained a second goal; and notwithstanding the strenuous
efforts of Ottaway, Chenery, Heron and Kingsford, who worked hard to
retrieve their loss, England sustained a defeat, their opponents
obtaining two goals to their one.
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Match Report
Bell's Life in
London and Sporting Chronicle, Sunday, 8 March 1874 |
Although the game was won by Scotland it must be admitted that the
English team played splendidly and, in an individual point of view,
surpassed the Scotch team, but the latter, who all knew each other's
play, acted magnificently together, and completely puzzled their
opponents in the art of passing the ball and close dribbling.
What the Scotch lacked in
weight was amply made up in swiftness and playing-together power - a
course which was splendidly illustrated during the game, and there can
only be one opinion about the manner in which they profited by each
other's play, passing the ball, in several instances, in a way that
completely astonished their opponents.
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In Other News....
It
was on 7 March 1874 that Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh and son of
Queen victoria, arrived back in England, with the new Duchess of
Edinburgh, the daughter of the Russian Tsar Alexander II, following
their wedding in St. Petersburg. |
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Source Notes |
The Football Association
Yearbook
original newspaper report
Bryon Butler's The Official History of the Football Association
Douglas Lamming's A Century of English International
Football 1872-1988 Douglas Lamming's
A Scottish Internationalists' Who's Who 1872-1986
Cris Freddi's England Football Factbook Nick
Gibbs England: The Football Facts Brian
James' England v Scotland |
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John Maxwell's Scottish International Football Archive (website) Jack
Rollin's Rothmans Book of Football Records
The
Scottish Football Association, Scottish Match Archive
Scottish Sport History
Mark Shaoul & Tony Williamson's Forever England: A History of the
National Side The
Official History of the England Football Team (DVD) LondonHearts.com
Michael
Southwick's Cuthbert Ottaway:
England's First Football Captain |
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