Match
Summary |
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Officials
[umpires and referees are of equal relevance] |
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Played according to FA rules.
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England |
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Scotland |
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Umpires
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An experimental law is introduced, that empowers the referee to award a goal
in cases where, in his opinion, a goal has been prevented from a deliberate
handball by the defending team. It lasts one season only, and it is
unknown as to whether it resulted in any England goals in 1881-82. |
Segar
R.
Bastard 28
(25 January 1854), Upton Park FC
(replaced Major Marindin) |
T. Anderson Renfrew |
played against Scotland in 1880 |
Referee
John Wallace
Beith (SFA vice-president). |
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Scotland
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating
1st |
Colours: |
'the Scotchmen having adopted a new jersey, the
well-known blue and white stripes of the Edinburgh Academicals, with the
Scottish lion worked in gold as a badge.' |
Capt: |
Charles Campbell |
Selectors: |
The Scottish Football Association
Selection Committee |
Scotland
Lineup |
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Gillespie, George |
22
262 days |
22 June 1859 |
G |
Rangers FC |
4 |
4 GA |
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Watson, Andrew |
25
289 days |
26 May 1856
in Georgetown, British Guiana |
RB |
Queen's Park FC |
3 |
0 |
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McIntyre, Andrew |
26
214 days |
9 August 1855 |
LB |
Vale of Leven FC |
2 |
0 |
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Campbell, Charles |
nk |
not known |
Half Back |
Queen's Park FC |
9 |
1 |
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Miller, Peter |
nk |
not known |
Dumbarton FC |
1 |
0 |
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Fraser, M.J. Eadie |
nk |
not known |
OR |
Queen's Park FC |
2 |
0 |
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Anderson, William |
nk |
not known |
IR |
Queen's Park FC |
1 |
0 |
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Ker,
George |
nk |
not known |
Centre
Forward |
Queen's Park FC |
4 |
9 |
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Harrower,
William |
20
144 days |
18 October 1861 |
Queen's Park FC |
1 |
1 |
the tenth debutant to score against England |
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Kay,
John L. |
nk |
not known |
IL |
Queen's Park FC |
2 |
2 |
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McPherson,
Robert |
nk |
not known |
OL |
Arthurlie FC |
1 |
1 |
reserves: |
not known |
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2-2-6 |
Gillespie -
Watson, MacIntyre -
Campbell, Miller -
Fraser, Anderson, Ker, Harrower, Kay, McPherson. |
Averages: |
Age |
tbc |
Appearances/Goals |
2.7 |
0.7 |
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England
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating
2nd |
Colours: |
'dressed in white jerseys and blue knickerbockers' |
Capt: |
Norman Bailey (second (15) captaincy) |
Selectors: |
The Football Association Committee
following trial games, with Secretary Charles W. Alcock having the primary
influence, on Tuesday, 7 March 1882. |
England
Lineup |
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Swepstone, H. Albemarle |
23
56 days |
14 January 1859 |
G |
Pilgrims FC &
Corinthians FC |
2 |
10 GA |
=most gk apps |
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Greenwood, Doctor
H.,
injured |
21
131 days |
31 October 1860 |
RB |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
2 |
0 |
final app
1882 |
97 |
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Jones,
Alfred |
21 |
early
1861 |
LB |
Walsall Swifts FC |
1 |
0 |
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Bailey, Norman
C. |
24
231 days |
23 July 1857 |
Half Back |
Clapham Rovers FC |
6 |
0 |
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Hunter,
John |
30
210 days |
13 August 1851 |
Heeley FC,
Providence FC,
Wednesday FC &
Sheffield Albion FC |
6 |
0 |
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Cursham,
Henry A. |
22
104 days |
27 November 1859 |
OR |
Notts County FC &
Corinthians FC |
3 |
1 |
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Parry, Edward
H. |
26
321 days |
24 April 1855
in Toronto, Canada |
IR |
Old Carthusians
AFC, Swifts FC &
Remnants FC |
2 |
0 |
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Vaughton,
O. Howard |
21
61 days |
9 January 1861 |
Centre Forward |
Aston Villa FC |
2 |
6 |
=most
goals |
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Brown,
Arthur |
23
98 days |
3 December 1858 |
Aston Villa FC |
2 |
4 |
Brown is 8500 days old |
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Bambridge,
E. Charles |
23
224 days |
30 July 1858 |
IL |
Swifts FC |
5 |
6 |
=most goals |
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Mosforth,
William |
24
68 days |
2 January 1858 |
OL |
Wednesday FC |
8 |
2 |
most apps |
reserves: |
Arthur Mallinson (Barnsley Wanderers FC, goal),
Edwin Buttery (Heeley
FC, half-back),
William Page,
E.J. Wilson (both
Old Carthusians AFC, forwards)
and
Percivall Parr (Oxford University AFC, centre). |
team notes: |
Old Carthusians AFC's
James Prinsep withdrew from the original line-up because of
injury, his place going to Hunter. Greenwood, who had made the journey
instead of Buttery, took the place of
Royal Engineers FC's
Bruce Russell. |
records: |
For the first time, England have started
with only one debutant, having not done so with less than two so
far, thus making this the most experienced England
team so far. Albemarle Swepstone becomes the
second goalkeeper
to earn a second appearance. |
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2-2-6 |
Swepstone -
Greenwood, Jones -
Bailey, Hunter -
Cursham, Parry, Vaughton, Brown, Bambridge, Mosforth. |
Averages: |
Age |
23 years 300-311 days |
Appearances/Goals |
3.5 |
1.6 |
most experienced so far |
"In the evening the teams were entertained to dinner in Robertson's
Bath Hotel, Bath Street, by the Scottish Football Association. About eighty
were present." - The Scotsman, Monday, 13 March 1882 |
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England previous teams
vs. Scotland: |
1881: |
Hawtrey |
Wilson |
Field |
Hunter |
Bailey |
Holden |
Rostron |
Macauley |
Mitchell |
Bambridge |
Hargreaves |
1882: |
Swepstone |
Greenwood |
Jones |
Bailey |
Hunter |
Cursham |
Parry |
Vaughton |
Brown |
Mosforth |
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Match Report
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Morning Post, Monday, 13 March 1882 |
In Other News..... |
The
annual match
under
Association rules between
England and Scotland was played on Saturday afternoon at Hampden Park,
Glasgow, in the presence of about 12,000 spectators. The weather was
fine, and the ground in good condition. Scotland were successful in
the toss, and at first elected to play with the wind in their favour.
The home team speedily invaded their rivals' territory, and made
repeated attacks on their goal, which for some time was saved by the
dexterity of Swepstone. Good runs were then made by Parry and Cursham,
by they were stopped by the Scottish backs. Bailey also ran the ball
well down the ground, but took his kick too hurriedly, and it went
over the cross-bar. Once more the home forwards acted on the
aggressive, and a corner-kick seemed to imperil their fortress, but
Swepstone proved equal to the occasion. At length, however, there are
some determined play in front of the English posts, and out of a loose
scrimmage the ball was shot through by Harrower. Very clever runs were
made by Cursham and Bambridge down the centre of the ground, the ball
being well passed from one to the other with great skill. Mosforth
also made a fine attempt to score, and shot the ball into the hands of
the goalkeeper, who threw it well away. He returned to the charge, and
this time succeeded in sending the ball between the posts. The score
having thus been brought level, the play became even more determined.
A little before the time arrived for changing ends Kerr placed a
second goal to the credit of Scotland. The sides having crossed over,
the home team had the wind against them, but this did not prevent
Harrower from immediately kicking a third goal, and the game had not
proceeded much further before Ker added a fourth, and within five
minutes of the cessation of hostilities Kaye sent the ball through.
This was the last score, and thus, when time was called, victory
rested with the Scotch by five goals to one.
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It was on 10 March 1882 that Roderick
Maclean was charged with high treason in attempting to assassinate Queen
Victoria by shooting at her carriage the previous week. He was found
'not guilty, but insane' and sent to Broadmoor Asylum for the rest of
his life.
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The international football match between
England and Scotland, under Association rules, was played at Glasgow
on Saturday before 15,000 spectators. Both countries were well
represented, but the Scotchmen were the favourites. A stiff breeze
prevailed during the progress of the game, but even with this
advantage in their favour the Scotchmen did not make much of it,
half-time being called with the score at - Scotland, two goals;
England, one. The second half, however, proved disastrous to the
Englishmen, who seemed to have shot their bolt in defending their goal
in the first half, because they did not play so well and could not
retain the ball when they did get possession. The consequence was that
a third goal was soon added, and in a short time a fourth fell to the
Scotchmen, who, hemming in their opponents, surrounded their goal
continually. Five minutes before the call of time a fifth goal fell to
Scotland, and the match was brought to a close before the Englishmen
could increase their score of one goal.
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The Times, Monday, 13 March 1882 |
There can be
little doubt, if the contest had been played under Scottish rules, it
certainly would have been a much prettier game to look at... -
North British Daily Mail
- Monday, 13 March 1882
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Andrew Watson...
Watson
was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, to a 51-year-old plantation
manager and former slave owner called Peter Miller Watson, originally
from Orkney, and Anna (or Hannah) Rose. He was almost certainly
illegitimate and even his date of birth is open to question
[ed. 26
May 1856]. Generally
quoted as 18 May 1857, this does not tally with his age on later
documentation such as census returns and marriage certificates, which
all make him a year older. As an infant, he left the colony with his
father and older sister Annetta for a life in England, apparently
abandoning the mother.
When Peter Watson died in 1869, he left his
children a vast fortune of £35,000, the equivalent of many millions
today. It gave his son financial security for life, but it must have
been a lonely childhood for the boy, who was educated at a succession
of boarding schools in England. Being of mixed race would have made it
even harder, but he came through the experience and, in 1875, enrolled
at Glasgow University to study Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and
Civil Engineering. However, he left after just one year to start an
engineering apprenticeship and, in 1877, married 17-year-old Jessie
Armour; they soon had two children, Rupert and Agnes.
Meanwhile, he came to national prominence as a
superb footballer. With his first senior club, Parkgrove, he showed
enough promise to be chosen to represent Glasgow, and was invited to
join the country's premier side, Queen's Park. He won his first medal
almost immediately in the Glasgow Charity Cup final of 1880 and
quickly established himself as an outstanding full back, being
selected as the captain of Scotland against England and winning the
Scottish Cup in his first season with Queen's Park. He played in two
further emphatic victories over England and Wales, both games ending
5-1, and would certainly have won more caps but, in the summer of 1882
having won the Scottish Cup for a second time and at the height of his
footballing powers, he moved to London for work at a time when only
home-based Scots were selected.
Tragedy struck that autumn as his wife Jessie
died. Their two children were sent back to Glasgow to live with their
grandparents, leaving Watson to continue not just with his engineering
career but also as a footballer. For the next three seasons he played
in the FA Cup for London side Swifts, getting as far as the
quarter-finals, and turning out on occasion for other clubs, including
Brentwood and Pilgrims. More significantly in terms of his social
status, he was sufficiently well regarded not just as a player but as
a gentleman amateur to be invited in to join the exclusive Corinthians
club. He toured with them twice, the highlight being an 8-1 crushing
of FA Cup holders Blackburn Rovers in 1884.
As a man of independent means, Watson could
afford to travel regularly to Glasgow to turn out for Queen's Park,
mostly for charity cup ties but also for the opening of the second
Hampden Park. He came back for a year to take part in the club's
successful campaign which brought him his third Scottish Cup winner's
medal in 1886 and, in February 1887, married second wife Eliza Kate
Tyler.
That summer they moved from Glasgow to
Liverpool, where he found not just work as a maritime engineer, but
also enjoyed a football swansong. He was recruited by Bootle FC, an
ambitious club who were Everton's main rivals and reached the FA Cup
fifth round.
They offered wages and signing-on fees to a
number of prominent players, with Watson the star attraction, and an
interesting question about his involvement with Bootle is whether he
was paid, having previously been an amateur. If he was, Watson would
be the first black man to play football professionally, a distinction
usually accorded to Englishman Arthur Wharton, who turned professional
in 1889.
From his Merseyside base, Watson spent the
next 20 years working on ships and sat Board of Trade exams to qualify
as an engineer.
He and Eliza had two children, Henry and
Phyllis but, although he was often away, there is some evidence he was
not a completely absent father, as in the autumn of 1901 they all
travelled from Liverpool to the USA. Meanwhile, Watson's son and
daughter from his first marriage remained in Glasgow with their
grandparents and never joined his new family. It seems a sad
arrangement, but it was perhaps because he was at sea for long periods
of time, and did not think he could have been much of a father to
them.
After Watson retired, he and the family moved
to the west London suburbs at Kew, where he died of pneumonia at 88
Forest Road on 8 March 1921, aged 64. Unnoticed by the media and the
football establishment, he was buried in Richmond Cemetery (as his
wife and daughter also would be in later years). Andrew Watson
pre-dates two other prominent black football pioneers, Arthur Wharton
and Walter Tull, who have memorials to mark their lives. Now that his
last resting place is finally known, it opens the door for a similar
commemoration of the achievements of this gentleman Scot. -
Andy
Mitchell and his excellent research, March 2013
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Source Notes |
TheFA Scottish FA
Cris Freddi's England Football Factbook Andy Mitchell's extensive research
The Story of Association Football.: J.A.H. Catton
100 Great Black Britons |
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Professional Footballer's Association
LondonHearts.com The Football Association Yearbook
James Corbett's England Expects Original Newspaper Reports
Anton Gorovik |
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