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England National Football Team Match No. 15

Scotland 5 England 1 [2-1]

Saturday, 11 March 1882

Match Summary and Report

Match Summary and Report Team Records Scotland Pre-Match England Pre-Match

 

Match Summary

Status: Friendly match;
Venue: Hampden Park, Hampden Terrace, Glasgow;
Attendance: 10,000; [a further 5,00 were watching from the surrounding slopes]
Goals: Scotland - William Harrower, 15th minute;
England - Howard Vaughton, 35th minute;
Scotland - George Ker, 43rd minute;
Scotland - Robert McPherson, 46th minute;
Scotland - George Ker, 70th minute;
Scotland - John Kay, 85th minute;
Cautions: None.
Expulsions: None.
Officials: Referee - John Wallace, Beith, SFA Vice-President;
Umpires - Segar R. Bastard, 26 (25-Jan-1854), Upton Park FC, London, & T. Anderson, Renfrew;
Notes: Umpires and Referees are of equal relevance.
Conditions: kick-off 3.30 p.m.
Miscellany: -
Notes: James Prinsep, of Old Carthusians, withdrew from the original England line-up because of injury.
Statistics:

Not known.

Scotland Team

Ranking:

No official ranking system established; 1st in Elo world ranking both before and after this match.

Colours: Blue and white hoops, with a gold crest;
Coach: None; Team selection chosen by Committee;
Captain: Charles Campbell;

Scotland Lineup

Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G Career
-Gillespie, George 22-Jun-1859 22 G

Glasgow Rangers FC

4 4 GA 1880-1891
-Watson, Andrew 18-May-1857 24 B

Queen's Park FC

3 0 1881-1882
-McIntyre, Andrew 09-Aug-1855 26 B

Vale of Leven FC

2 0 1878-1882
-Campbell, Charles NK NK HB

Queen's Park FC

9 1 1876-1886
-Miller, Peter NK NK HB

Dumbarton FC

1 0 1882-1883
-Fraser, Malcolm J. E. NK NK F

Queen's Park FC

2 0 1880-1883
-Anderson, William NK NK F

Queen's Park FC

1 0 1882-1885
-Ker, George NK NK F

Queen's Park FC

4 9 1880-1882
-Harrower, William 09-Oct-1861 20 F

Queen's Park FC

1 1 1882-1886
-Kay, John L. NK NK F

Queen's Park FC

2 2 1880-1884
-McPherson, Robert NK NK F

Arthurlie FC

1 1 1882
Formation:

2-2-6

Gillespie -
Watson, MacIntyre -
Campbell, Miller -
Fraser, Anderson, Ker, Harrower, Kay, McPherson.

England Team

Ranking:

No official ranking system established; 2nd in Elo world ranking both before and after this match.

Colours: White shirts, navy blue knickerbockers;
Coach: None; team selection by the Football Association Committee with secretary Charles W. Alcock having the primary influence.
Captain: Norman Bailey, 2nd of 15 captaincies.

England Lineup

Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G Career
-Swepstone, Harry A. early-1859 23 G

Pilgrims FC

2 10 GA 1880-1883
-Greenwood, Doctor H. 31-Oct-1860 21 RB

Blackburn Rovers FC

2 0 1882
-Jones, Alfred Summer-1861 20 LB

Walsall Swifts FC

1 0 1882-1883
-Bailey, Norman C. 23-Jul-1857 24 HB

Clapham Rovers FC

6 1 1878-1887
-Hunter, John Summer-1852 29 HB

Sheffield Heeley FC

6 0 1878-1882
-Cursham, Henry A. 27-Nov-1859 22 F

Notts County FC & Corinthians FC

3 1 1880-1884
-Parry, Edward H. 24-Apr-1855 26 F

Old Carthusians FC

2 0 1879-1882
-Vaughton, O. Howard 09-Jan-1861 21 F Aston Villa FC 2 6 1882-1884
-Brown, Arthur A. 15-Mar-1859 22 F Aston Villa FC 2 4 1882
-Mosforth, William early-1858 23/24 F

Wednesday FC

8 2 1877-1882
-Bambridge, E. Charles 30-Jul-1858 23 F

Swifts FC

5 6 1879-1887
Formation:

2-2-6

Swepstone -
Greenwood, Jones -
Bailey, Hunter -
Bambridge, Mosforth, Cursham, Parry, Vaughton, Bambridge.

Match Report

 

 

 

 

Andrew Watson (top centre) with members of the Scottish team that played against England at the Hampden Park on the 11 March 1882.  Scotland played in blue and white hoops. - The Glasgow Story

Source Notes

 

Andrew Watson was born in May 1857, in Demerara, British Guiana and died in Sydney, Australia, date unknown, was the world's first mixed race International football player, capped three times for Scotland between 1881 and 1882 and considered one of the top ten most important players of the 19th century.

He was the son of a wealthy Scottish sugar planter Peter Miller and a local girl called Rose Watson, making him a British citizen of mixed race. He was educated at King's College School, where records show he excelled at sports including football. He later studied philosophy, mathematics and engineering at University of Glasgow when he was 19, where his natural love of football blossomed. He played in the side back position, on either the right or the left flank.

After first playing for Maxwell F.C., in 1876 he signed for local side Parkgrove F.C. where he was additionally their match secretary, making him the first mixed race administrator in football. On April 14th 1880, he was selected to represent Glasgow against Sheffield - Glasgow won 1-0 at Bramall Lane.  After marrying in Glasgow, he soon signed for Queen's Park F.C. – then Britain's biggest football team – and later became their secretary.  He led the team to several Scottish Cup wins, thus becoming the first mixed race player to win a major competition.  Soon Watson won three international caps for Scotland.

In 1882, he was the first mixed race player to play in the FA Cup when he turned out for Swifts F.C.. In 1884 he was the first foreign player to be invited to join the most exclusive of football teams, a team that allowed only 50 members of high elite to join – Corinthians F.C. – created to challenge the supremacy of Queen's Park and the Scottish national side. This included an 8 - 1 victory against Blackburn Rovers, who were at that time the English Cup holders.

Watson's entry in the Scottish Football Association Annual of 1880-81 reads as follows:

"Watson, Andrew: One of the very best backs we have; since joining Queen's Park has made rapid strides to the front as a player; has great speed and tackles splendidly; powerful and sure kick; well worthy of a place in any representative team."

There is almost no record of his later life, though it is known that Watson later emigrated to Australia, as he died in Sydney and is buried there.

In 1926 the sportswriter J.A.H. Catton, editor of the Athletic News, named Andrew Watson as left back in his all-time Scotland team – a remarkable endorsement of the talent of a footballer who had played at such an early date, from a man who had watched almost every England-Scotland international over the preceding 50 years.

Sources

England Football Factbook: Cris Freddi
FA.com
Scottish Football Association
London Hearts
original newspaper snippet
England Expects: James Corbett
The Story of Association Football.: J. A. H. Catton
100 Great Black Britons
Scottish Football Museum

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