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England National Football Team Match No. 1

Scotland 0 England 0
* please note that there is no half-time score

Saturday, 30 November 1872

Scotland Pre-Match

 

Scotland Party
Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G
Gardner, Robert W. 1847/48 23-25 G

Queen's Park FC,
Granville FC

0 0
Ker, William NK NK B Queen's Park FC,
Granville FC
0 0
Lawrie, Thomas - - - - 0 0
Leckie, Robert NK NK F Queen's Park FC 0 0
MacKinnon, William Muir 1851/52 NK F Queen's Park FC 0 0
Rae, Archibald - - - - 0 0
Rhind, Alexander 1849/50 21-23 F Queen's Park FC 0 0
Smith, James NK NK HB Queen's Park FC,
South Norwood FC
0 0
Smith, Robert NK NK F Queen's Park FC,
South Norwood FC
0 0
Taylor, Joseph circa 1851 NK B Queen's Park FC,
Granville FC
0 0
Thomson, James J. NK NK HB Queen's Park FC 0 0
Weir, James Begg 1853 18/19 F Queen's Park FC 0 0
Wotherspoon, David N. NK NK F Queen's Park FC 0 0

Notes

The Scotland team was selected by Robert W. Gardner, a founding member and captain of Queen's Park.  Originally a forward, he only took up goalkeeping the year of this first international.  He became a committee member in the Scottish Football Association when it was founded the next year and served as its president in 1877-78.

The Scots were unable to obtain the services of two leading players based in England, Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, a versatile player for Wanderers who usually performed at halfback, and Lt. Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour, centre-forward with the Royal Engineers.  Both earned their only Scotland caps the next year.  Kinnaird already was a leading football administrator in England.  A Football Association Committee member since 1868, he went on to become its President from 1890 until his death in 1923.

James and Robert Smith brothers, played for South Norwood FC in London as well as Queen's Park.  Robert W. Gardner, William Ker and Joseph Taylor played for Granville FC in Scotland as well as Queen's Park.

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