(Match 42) 21st March 1891 (8th Home International Championship)
WALES - SCOTLAND 3-4 (2-1)
Referee: Charles Crump (England)
Crowd: 4.000, The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Goals: 0-1 Logan (5), 1-1 Bowdler (12), 2-1 Owen (45), 2-2 Buchanan (51),
2-3 Boyd (59), 3-3 Turner (nk), 3-4 Boyd (80)
WALES:
James Trainer - Seth Powell, David Jones - Arthur Lea, Humphrey Percy Jones [c],
Charles Frederick Parry - Joseph Davies, William Owen, William Haighton Turner,
John Charles Henry Bowdler, William Lewis.
SCOTLAND:
John McCorkindale (1/Partick Thistle) -
Archibald Ritchie (1/East Stirlingshire)
James "Jock" Hepburn (1/Alloa Athletic) -
Matthew McQueen (2/Leith Athletic)
Andrew Campbell Brown (2/St.Mirren)
Thomas Robertson (1) [c] (3/Queen's Park) -
William Gulliland (1/Queen's Park)
Robert Blackburn Buchanan (1/Abercorn)
James Logan (1/Ayr)
Robert Boyd (2/Mossend Swifts)
Alexander Keiller (1/Montrose)
Notes: Despite exhaustive research it has proved impossible to find the time
of the third Welsh goal scored by Turner. The newspaper reports suggest
it came not long after Boyd had put Scotland in the lead in the 59th
minute. For example, on 23rd March 1891 The Daily Express (Dublin) writes:
"Turner quickly managed again to equalise matters by a brilliant shot."
(Match 43) 28th March 1891 (8th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - IRELAND 2-1 (1-0)
Referee: William Heaton Stacey (England)
Crowd: 8.000, Celtic Park, Glasgow
Goals: 1-0 Low (6), 2-0 Waddell (60), 2-1 Crawford (70)
SCOTLAND:
George Gillespie [c] (7/Queen's Park) -
Donald Currie Sillars (1/Queen's Park)
William Paul (2) (1/Dykebar) -
Thomas Hamilton (1/Hurlford)
John White Clelland (1/Royal Albert)
James Paterson Campbell (1/Kilmarnock) -
James Low (1/Cambuslang)
Robert Clements (1/Leith Athletic)
William Bowie (1/Linthouse)
Thomas Smith Waddell (1/Queen's Park)
James Fraser (1/Moffat)
IRELAND:
Joseph Loyal - William Gordon, George Forbes - Alexander Crawford [c], John Reynolds,
Richard Moore - William Boyd Dalton, George John Gaffikin, Olphert Martin Stanfield,
David Brisby, Samuel Torrans.
Notes: William Paul (2) - (Dykebar, one cap: 28th March 1891).
(Match 44) 4th April 1891 (8th Home International Championship)
ENGLAND - SCOTLAND 2-1 (2-0)
Referee: William James Morrow (Ireland)
Crowd: 12.000, Ewood Park, Blackburn
Goals: 1-0 Goodall (22), 2-0 Chadwick (35), 2-1 Watt (78)
ENGLAND:
William Robert Moon [c] - Robert Henry Howarth, Robert Holmes - Albert Smith,
John Holt, Alfred Shelton - William Isaiah Bassett, John Goodall, Frederick Geary,
Edgar Wallace Chadwick, Alfred Milward.
SCOTLAND:
James Wilson (4/Vale of Leven) -
Walter Arnott [c] (12/Queen's Park)
Robert Smellie (4/Queen's Park) -
Isaac Begbie (2/Heart of Midlothian)
John McPherson (2) (1/Heart of Midlothian)
John Jack Hill (1/Heart of Midlothian) -
Gilbert Rankin (2/Vale of Leven)
Francis Watt (4/Kilbirnie)
William Sellar (6/Queen's Park)
William Hall Berry (4/Queen's Park)
David Baird (2/Heart of Midlothian)
Notes: John McPherson (2) – (Heart of Midlothian, one cap: 4th April 1891).
Scotland were runners-up. England won the home title.
(Match 45) 19th March 1892 (9th Home International Championship)
IRELAND - SCOTLAND 2-3 (1-2)
Referee: John Taylor (Wales)
Crowd: 10.500, Solitude, Belfast
Goals: 0-1 Keiller (17), 0-2 Lambie (28), 1-2 Williamson (42), 1-3 Ellis (70),
2-3 Gaffikin (86)
IRELAND:
John Clugston - William Gordon [c], Robert Kennedy Stewart - Nathaniel McKeown,
Samuel Spencer, William Cunningham - William Boyd Dalton, George John Gaffikin,
James Williamson, Olphert Martin Stanfield, Samuel Torrans.
SCOTLAND:
Andrew Baird (1/Queen's Park) -
George Alexander Bowman (1/Montrose)
John Drummond (1/Falkirk) -
Robert William Marshall (1/Rangers)
Thomas Robertson (1) [c] (4/Queen's Park)
Peter Dowds* (1/Celtic) -
William Gulliland (2/Queen's Park)
David Murray McPherson (1/Kilmarnock)
David Thomson Ellis (1/Mossend Swifts)
William Allan Lambie (1/Queen's Park)
Alexander Keiller (2/Montrose)
(Match 46) 26th March 1892 (9th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - WALES 6-1 (4-0)
Referee: John Reid (Ireland)
Crowd: 1.200, Tynecastle Park, Edinburgh
Goals: 1-0 Thomson (1), 2-0 Hamilton (8), 3-0 McPherson (15), 4-0 McPherson (44),
5-0 Baird (55), 6-0 Hamilton (65), 6-1 B.Lewis (87)
SCOTLAND:
Robert Downie (1/3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers) -
James Adams (2/Heart of Midlothian)
James Orr (1/Kilmarnock) -
Isaac Begbie (3/Heart of Midlothian)
James Paterson Campbell (2/Kilmarnock)
John Jack Hill [c] (2/Heart of Midlothian) -
John Daniel Taylor (1/Dumbarton)
William Thomson (1) (1/Dumbarton)
James Hamilton (1/Queen's Park)
John McPherson (1) (5/Rangers)
David Baird (3/Heart of Midlothian)
WALES:
James Trainer [c] - Smart Atkinson Arridge, Seth Powell - William Hughes, Caesar Augustus Llewelyn Jenkyns,
Robert Roberts - Job Wilding, William Owen, William Lewis, Thomas William Egan, Benjamin Lewis.
Notes: William Thomson (1) - (Dumbarton, four caps: from 26th March 1892 to 26th March 1898).
(Match 47) 2nd April 1892 (9th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - ENGLAND 1-4 (0-4)
Referee: Dr.John Smith (Scotland)
Crowd: 20.000, Ibrox Park, Govan (the autonomous burgh became part of the city of Glasgow in 1912)
Goals: 0-1 Chadwick (1), 0-2 Goodall (14), 0-3 Southworth (16), 0-4 Goodall (26),
1-4 Bell (80)
SCOTLAND:
John McLeod (4/Dumbarton) -
Daniel Doyle (1/Celtic)
Walter Arnott (13/Queen's Park) -
James Kelly (5/Celtic)
William Sellar [c] (7/Queen's Park)
David Mitchell (2/Rangers) -
Donald Currie Sillars (2/Queen's Park)
William Kay Taylor (1/Heart of Midlothian)
Thomas Smith Waddell (2/Queen's Park)
Alexander McMahon (1/Celtic)
John Watson Bell (2/Dumbarton)
ENGLAND:
George Toone - Arthur Tempest Blakiston Dunn [c], Robert Holmes - John Reynolds,
John Holt, Alfred Shelton - William Isaiah Bassett, John Goodall, John Southworth,
Edgar Wallace Chadwick, Dennis Hodgetts.
Notes: The referee John Smith was the ex-Scotland international player.
Scotland were runners-up. England won the home title.
(Match 48) 18th March 1893 (10th Home International Championship)
WALES - SCOTLAND 0-8 (0-5)
Referee: William Heaton Stacey (England)
Crowd: 4.500, The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Goals: 0-1 Madden (4), 0-2 Madden (14), 0-3 Barker (19), 0-4 Barker (35),
0-5 Barker (40), 0-6 Madden (47), 0-7 Lambie (62), 0-8 Madden (89)
WALES:
Samuel Jones - Oliver David Shepston Taylor, Frederick William Jones - George Williams,
Edwin Hugh Williams, Edward Morris - William Owen [c], James Vaughan, John Butler,
Benjamin Lewis, Harold Ernest Bowdler.
SCOTLAND:
John McLeod (5/Dumbarton) -
Daniel Doyle (2/Celtic)
Robert Foyer (1/St.Bernard's) -
Donald Currie Sillars [c] (3/Queen's Park)
Andrew McCreadie (1/Rangers)
David McGregor Stewart (1/Queen's Park) -
John Daniel Taylor (2/Dumbarton)
William Thomson (1) (2/Dumbarton)
John Madden (1/Celtic)
John Bell Barker (1/Rangers)
William Allan Lambie (2/Queen's Park)
Notes: Foyer was frequently recorded as Foyers though the former is correct.
(Match 49) 25th March 1893 (10th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - IRELAND 6-1 (4-1)
Referee: John Taylor (Wales)
Crowd: 12.000, Celtic Park, Glasgow
Goals: 1-0 Sellar (7), 2-0 S.Torrans (15) own goal, 3-0 Sellar (18), 4-0 McMahon (28),
4-1 Gaffikin (38), 5-1 Kelly (60), 6-1 Hamilton (70)
SCOTLAND:
John Lindsay (2/Renton) -
James Adams (3/Heart of Midlothian)
Robert Smellie (5/Queen's Park) -
William Patrick Maley (1/Celtic)
James Kelly [c] (6/Celtic)
David Mitchell (3/Rangers) -
William Sellar (8/Queen's Park)
Thomas Smith Waddell (3/Queen's Park)
James Hamilton (2/Queen's Park)
Alexander McMahon (2/Celtic)
John Campbell (2) (1/Celtic)
IRELAND:
John Clugston - William Gordon, Samuel Torrans - Nathaniel McKeown, Samuel Johnston,
Robert Torrans - James Mark Small [c], George John Gaffikin, James McElmunn Wilton,
James Williamson, John Peden.
Notes: John Campbell (2) - (Celtic, twelve caps: from 25th March 1893 to 9th March 1903).
Samuel Johnston (Ireland - Match 49, 25th March 1893) and Samuel Johnston
(Ireland - Match 27, 20th March 1886) were two different players.
(Match 50) 1st April 1893 (10th Home International Championship)
ENGLAND - SCOTLAND 5-2 (1-1)
Referee: John Charles Clegg (England)
Crowd: 16.000, Richmond Athletic Ground, Richmond (Richmond was not part of London until 1965)
Goals: 1-0 Gosling (13), 1-1 Waddell (25), 1-2 Sellar (48), 2-2 Cotterill (58),
3-2 Spiksley (78), 4-2 Spiksley (80), 5-2 Reynolds (84)
ENGLAND:
Leslie Hewitt Gay - Alban Hugh Harrison, Robert Holmes - John Reynolds, John Holt,
George Kinsey - William Isaiah Bassett, Robert Cunliffe Gosling, George Hugh Cotterill [c],
Edgar Wallace Chadwick, Frederick Spiksley.
SCOTLAND:
John Lindsay (3/Renton) -
Walter Arnott (14/Queen's Park)
Robert Smellie (6/Queen's Park) -
William Patrick Maley (2/Celtic)
James Kelly [c] (7/Celtic)
David Mitchell (4/Rangers) -
William Sellar (9/Queen's Park)
Thomas Smith Waddell (4/Queen's Park)
James Hamilton (3/Queen's Park)
Alexander McMahon (3/Celtic)
John Campbell (2) (2/Celtic)
Notes: Scotland were runners-up. England won the home title.
(Match 51) 24th March 1894 (11th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - WALES 5-2 (2-2)
Referee: Joseph Macbride (Ireland)
Crowd: 10.000, Rugby Park, Kilmarnock
Goals: 0-1 Morris (21), 0-2 Morris (34), 1-2 Berry (37), 2-2 Barker (44),
3-2 Chambers (70), 4-2 Alexander (75), 5-2 Johnstone (85)
SCOTLAND:
Andrew Baird (2/Queen's Park) -
David Crawford (1/St.Mirren)
Robert Foyer (2/St.Bernard's) -
Edward Cunningham McBain (1/St.Mirren)
James Kelly [c] (8/Celtic)
John Johnstone (1/Kilmarnock) -
Andrew Stewart (1/3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers)
Thomas Chambers (1/Heart of Midlothian)
David Alexander (1/East Stirlingshire)
Davidson Berry (1/Queen's Park)
John Bell Barker (2/Rangers)
WALES:
Samuel Gladstone Gillam - Oliver David Shepston Taylor [c], Abel Hughes - George Williams,
Thomas Chapman, Thomas Worthington - Hugh Morris, Benjamin Lewis, William Lewis, John Charles Rea,
Edwin James.
(Match 52) 31st March 1894 (11th Home International Championship)
IRELAND - SCOTLAND 1-2 (0-2)
Referee: Edward Phennah (Wales)
Crowd: 6.000, Solitude, Belfast
Goals: 0-1 Torrans (25) own goal, 0-2 Taylor (28), 1-2 Stanfield (65)
IRELAND:
Thomas McComb Scott - Robert Kennedy Stewart, Samuel Torrans [c] - Nathaniel McKeown,
John Burnett, Robert George Milne - William Boyd Dalton, George John Gaffikin,
Olphert Martin Stanfield, William Kennedy Gibson, James Humphrey Barron.
SCOTLAND:
Francis Barrett (1/Dundee) -
David Crawford (2/St.Mirren)
John Drummond (2/Rangers) -
Robert William Marshall [c] (2/Rangers)
William Longair (1/Dundee)
David McGregor Stewart (2/Queen's Park) -
John Daniel Taylor (3/Dumbarton)
James Blessington (1/Celtic)
David Alexander (2/East Stirlingshire)
Robert Scott (1/Airdrieonians)
Alexander Keiller (3/Dundee)
(Match 53) 7th April 1894 (11th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - ENGLAND 2-2 (1-1)
Referee: John Reid (Ireland)
Crowd: 45.017, Celtic Park, Glasgow
Goals: 1-0 Lambie (7), 1-1 Goodall (12), 2-1 McMahon (75), 2-2 Reynolds (85)
SCOTLAND:
David Haddow (1/Rangers) -
Donald Currie Sillars (4/Queen's Park)
Daniel Doyle [c] (3/Celtic) -
Isaac Begbie (4/Heart of Midlothian)
Andrew McCreadie (2/Rangers)
David Mitchell (5/Rangers) -
William Gulliland (3/Queen's Park)
James Blessington (2/Celtic)
Alexander McMahon (4/Celtic)
John McPherson (1) (6/Rangers)
William Allan Lambie (3/Queen's Park)
ENGLAND:
Leslie Hewitt Gay - Thomas Clare, Frederick Raymond Pelly - John Reynolds, John Holt,
Ernest Needham - William Isaiah Bassett, John Goodall [c], Gilbert Oswald Smith,
Edgar Wallace Chadwick, Frederick Spiksley.
Notes: Scotland won the home title for the fifth time outright - plus two shared with England.
New World Record attendance for a full international match.
(Match 54) 23rd March 1895 (12th Home International Championship)
WALES - SCOTLAND 2-2 (1-2)
Referee: William Henry Jope (England)
Crowd: 4.000, The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Goals: 1-0 W.Lewis (10), 1-1 Madden (30), 1-2 Divers (39), 2-2 Chapman (60)
WALES:
Samuel Jones - Robert Arthur Lloyd, Charles Frederick Parry [c] - George Williams,
Thomas Chapman, John Leonard Jones - Joseph Davies, Benjamin Lewis, Harry Trainer,
William Lewis, John Charles Rea.
SCOTLAND:
Francis Barrett (2/Dundee) -
Donald Currie Sillars [c] (5/Queen's Park)
Robert Glen (1/Renton) -
James Simpson (1/3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers)
William McColl (1/Renton)
Alexander Keiller (4/Dundee) -
John Herbert Fyfe (1/3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers)
John Murray (1/Renton)
John Madden (2/Celtic)
William Sawers (1/Dundee)
John Divers (1/Celtic)
(Match 55) 30th March 1895 (12th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - IRELAND 3-1 (1-1)
Referee: Thomas Brown Mitchell (England)
Crowd: 15.000, Celtic Park, Glasgow
Goals: 1-0 Lambie (1), 1-1 Morrison (35), 2-1 Walker (60), 3-1 Walker (70)
SCOTLAND:
Daniel McArthur (1/Celtic) -
John Drummond [c] (3/Rangers)
Daniel Doyle (4/Celtic) -
James Simpson (2/3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers)
David Russell (1/Heart of Midlothian)
Neil Gibson (1/Rangers) -
John Daniel Taylor (4/St.Mirren)
Thomas Smith Waddell (5/Queen's Park)
John McPherson (1) (7/Rangers)
John Walker (1) (1/Heart of Midlothian)
William Allan Lambie (4/Queen's Park)
IRELAND:
Thomas McComb Scott - John Ponsonby, Lewis Irwin Scott - Hymie McKee, Thomas Erskine Alexander,
Thomas McClatchey - Thomas Morrison, William Sherrard, Olphert Martin Stanfield [c],
William Kennedy Gibson, James Humphrey Barron.
Notes: John Walker (1) - (Heart of Midlothian and Rangers, five caps: from 30th March 1895
to 26th March 1904).
(Match 56) 6th April 1895 (12th Home International Championship)
ENGLAND - SCOTLAND 3-0 (3-0)
Referee: John Reid (Ireland)
Crowd: 42.500, Goodison Park, Liverpool
Goals: 1-0 Bloomer (30), 2-0 Gibson (35) own goal, 3-0 Smith (44)
ENGLAND:
John William Sutcliffe - Lewis Vaughan Lodge, James William Crabtree - John Reynolds,
John Holt, Ernest Needham - William Isaiah Bassett, Stephen Bloomer, John Goodall [c],
Robert Cunliffe Gosling, Stephen Smith.
SCOTLAND:
Daniel McArthur (2/Celtic) -
John Drummond (4/Rangers)
Daniel Doyle (5/Celtic) -
David Russell (2/Heart of Midlothian)
James Simpson (3/3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers)
Neil Gibson (2/Rangers) -
William Allan Lambie (5/Queen's Park)
John McPherson (1) (8/Rangers)
James Oswald [c] (2/St.Bernard's)
Thomas Smith Waddell (6/Queen's Park)
William Gulliland (4/Queen's Park)
Notes: Scotland and Wales were both runners-up. England won the home title.
(Match 57) 21st March 1896 (13th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - WALES 4-0 (2-0)
Referee: Joseph Macbride (Ireland)
Crowd: 11.700, Carolina Port, Dundee
Goals: 1-0 Neill (19), 2-0 Keiller (30), 3-0 Paton (59), 4-0 Neill (71)
SCOTLAND:
Robert Macfarlane (1/Morton) -
Duncan McLean (1/St.Bernard's)
Robert Glen (2/Renton) -
John Gillespie [c] (1/Queen's Park)
Robert Scott Gibson Neill (1/Hibernian)
William Blair (1/3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers) -
William Thomson (2) (1/Dundee)
Daniel John Ferguson Paton (1/St.Bernard's)
Robert Smyth McColl (1/Queen's Park)
Alexander King (1/Heart of Midlothian)
Alexander Keiller (5/Dundee)
WALES:
James Trainer [c] - Charles Frederick Parry, John Samuel Matthias - Joseph Rogers,
Caesar Augustus Llewelyn Jenkyns, John Leonard Jones - David Henry Pugh, John Garner,
Arthur Grenville Morris, John Charles Rea, William Lewis.
Notes: William Thomson (2) - (Dundee, one cap: 21st March 1896).
Robert Smyth McColl started the newsagents chain R.S.McColl in 1901. It still exists
to this day.
(Match 58) 28th March 1896 (13th Home International Championship)
IRELAND - SCOTLAND 3-3 (3-2)
Referee: James Cooper (England)
Crowd: 8.000, Solitude, Belfast
Goals: 0-1 McColl (7), 1-1 Barron (20), 1-2 McColl (25), 2-2 Barron (32), 3-2 Milne (43) penalty,
3-3 Murray (78)
IRELAND:
Thomas McComb Scott - John Ponsonby, Samuel Torrans - Hugh Gordon [c], Robert George Milne,
James Christopher Fitzpatrick - Gideon Baird, Denis Joseph Morrogh, Olphert Martin Stanfield,
James Humphrey Barron, John Peden.
SCOTLAND:
Kenneth Anderson (1/Queen's Park) -
Peter Meehan (1/Celtic)
John Drummond (5/Rangers) -
Neil Gibson (3/Rangers)
James Kelly [c] (9/Celtic)
George Hogg (1/Heart of Midlothian) -
Patrick Murray (1/Hibernian)
James Blessington (3/Celtic)
Robert Smyth McColl (2/Queen's Park)
John Cameron (2) (1/Queen's Park)
William Allan Lambie (6/Queen's Park)
Notes: John Cameron (2) - (Queen's Park, one cap: 28th March 1896).
The Irish player Denis Joseph Morrogh was registered as James Denis Francis Morrogh.
(Match 59) 4th April 1896 (13th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - ENGLAND 2-1 (2-0)
Referee: Humphrey Percy Jones (Wales)
Crowd: 51.345, Celtic Park, Glasgow
Goals: 1-0 Lambie (22), 2-0 Bell (33), 2-1 Bassett (80)
SCOTLAND:
John [Edward] Doig (3/Sunderland) -
John Drummond [c] (6/Rangers)
William [Thomas] Brandon (1/Blackburn Rovers) -
George Hogg (2/Heart of Midlothian)
James Cowan (1/Aston Villa)
Neil Gibson (4/Rangers) -
Alexander King (2/Heart of Midlothian)
William Allan Lambie (7/Queen's Park)
Thomas Hyslop* (1/Stoke)
James Blessington (4/Celtic)
John Watson Bell (3/Everton)
ENGLAND:
George Barkeley Raikes - Lewis Vaughan Lodge, William John Oakley - Arthur George Henfrey,
Thomas Henry Crawshaw, James William Crabtree - William Isaiah Bassett, John Goodall,
Gilbert Oswald Smith [c], Harry Wood, Cuthbert James Burnup.
Notes: Scotland won the home title for the sixth time outright - plus two shared with England.
New World Record attendance for a full international match.
(Match 60) 20th March 1897 (14th Home International Championship)
WALES - SCOTLAND 2-2 (1-1)
Referee: Thomas Armitt (England)
Crowd: 5.000, The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Goals: 0-1 Ritchie (11) penalty, 1-1 Morgan-Owen (40), 1-2 Walker (60), 2-2 Pugh (75)
WALES:
James Trainer [c] - William Roberts Jones, John Samuel Matthias - Sydney Darvell,
John Mates, John Leonard Jones - William Henry Meredith, David Henry Pugh,
Morgan Maddox Morgan-Owen, John Charles Rea, William Lewis.
SCOTLAND:
John Patrick (1/St.Mirren) -
John Lindsay Ritchie [c] (1/Queen's Park)
David Richmond Gardner (1/3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers) -
Bernard Breslin (1/Hibernian)
David Russell (3/Celtic)
Alexander Keiller (6/Dundee) -
John Kennedy (1/Hibernian)
Patrick Murray (2/Hibernian)
James Oswald (3/Rangers)
James Andrew McMillan (1/St.Bernard's)
John Walker (1) (2/Heart of Midlothian)
(Match 61) 27th March 1897 (14th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - IRELAND 5-1 (4-0)
Referee: James Cooper (England)
Crowd: 15.000, Ibrox Park, Govan (the autonomous burgh became part of the city of Glasgow in 1912)
Goals: 1-0 McPherson (12), 2-0 Gibson (25), 3-0 McColl (35), 4-0 King (44),
4-1 James Pyper (62), 5-1 McPherson (70)
SCOTLAND:
Matthew Dickie (1/Rangers) -
Duncan McLean (2/St.Bernard's)
John Drummond [c] (7/Rangers) -
Neil Gibson (5/Rangers)
William Urquhart Baird (1/St.Bernard's)
David McGregor Stewart (3/Queen's Park) -
Thomas Pollock Low (1/Rangers)
John McPherson (1) (9/Rangers)
Robert Smyth McColl (3/Queen's Park)
Alexander King (3/Celtic)
William Allan Lambie (8/Queen's Park)
IRELAND:
James Thompson - John Ponsonby, Samuel Torrans - John Stanley Pyper, Robert George Milne,
George McMaster [c] - James Campbell, Olphert Martin Stanfield, James Pyper, John Darling,
John Peden.
(Match 62) 3rd April 1897 (14th Home International Championship)
ENGLAND - SCOTLAND 1-2 (1-1)
Referee: Richard Thomas Gough (Wales)
Crowd: 33.715, Crystal Palace, London
Goals: 1-0 Bloomer (19), 1-1 Hyslop (27), 1-2 Miller (83)
ENGLAND:
John William Robinson - Howard Spencer, William John Oakley - John Reynolds,
Thomas Henry Crawshaw, Ernest Needham - Charles Athersmith, Stephen Bloomer,
Gilbert Oswald Smith [c], Edgar Wallace Chadwick, Alfred Milward.
SCOTLAND:
John Patrick (2/St.Mirren) -
Nicol Smith (1/Rangers)
Daniel Doyle (6/Celtic) -
Neil Gibson (6/Rangers)
James Cowan (2/Aston Villa)
Hugh Wilson (2) (2/Sunderland) -
John Watson Bell (4/Everton)
James Miller (1/Rangers)
George Horsburgh Allan (1/Liverpool)
Thomas Hyslop* (2/Rangers)
William Allan Lambie [c] (9/Queen's Park)
Notes: Scotland won the home title for the seventh time outright - plus two shared with England.
The English player Charles Athersmith was registered as William Charles Athersmith Harper.
(Match 63) 19th March 1898 (15th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - WALES 5-2 (4-1)
Referee: William Heaton Stacey (England)
Crowd: 3.500, Fir Park, Motherwell
Goals: 1-0 Gillespie (12), 2-0 Gillespie (20), 3-0 McKee (29), 4-0 McKee (40),
4-1 Thomas (44), 5-1 Gillespie (61), 5-2 Morgan-Owen (89)
SCOTLAND:
William Watson (1/Falkirk) -
Nicol Smith (2/Rangers)
Matthew McLintock Scott [c] (1/Airdrieonians) -
William Thomson (1) (3/Dumbarton)
Alexander Jack Christie (1/Queen's Park)
Peter Campbell (1/Morton) -
James Gillespie (1/3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers)
James Miller (2/Rangers)
James McKee (1/East Stirlingshire)
Hugh Morgan (1/St.Mirren)
Robert Findlay (1/Kilmarnock)
WALES:
James Trainer [c] - Charles Frederick Parry, David Jones - Richard Jones, Caesar Augustus Llewelyn Jenkyns,
John Leonard Jones - Edwin James, Thomas John Thomas, Morgan Maddox Morgan-Owen, Arthur Grenville Morris,
Alfred Ernest Watkins.
(Match 64) 26th March 1898 (15th Home International Championship)
IRELAND - SCOTLAND 0-3 (0-2)
Referee: John Lewis (England)
Crowd: 5.000, Solitude, Belfast
Goals: 0-1 Robertson (30), 0-2 McColl (42), 0-3 Stewart (70)
IRELAND:
Thomas McComb Scott - William Kennedy Gibson, Samuel Torrans - William John Stewart Anderson,
Robert George Milne, Michael Cochrane [c] - James Campbell, John Thompson Mercer, James Pyper,
James Wilson McCashin, John Peden.
SCOTLAND:
Kenneth Anderson (2/Queen's Park) -
Robert Robison Kelso [c] (7/Dundee)
Daniel Doyle (7/Celtic) -
William Thomson (1) (4/Dumbarton)
David Russell (4/Celtic)
Alexander King (4/Celtic) -
William Garven Stewart (1/Queen's Park)
John Campbell (2) (3/Celtic)
Robert Smyth McColl (4/Queen's Park)
John Walker (1) (3/Heart of Midlothian)
Thomas Robertson (2) (1/Heart of Midlothian)
Notes: Thomas Robertson (2) - (Heart of Midlothian, one cap: 26th March 1898).
(Match 65) 2nd April 1898 (15th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - ENGLAND 1-3 (0-2)
Referee: Thomas Robertson (Scotland)
Crowd: 40.000, Celtic Park, Glasgow
Goals: 0-1 Wheldon (3), 0-2 Bloomer (23), 1-2 Miller (48), 1-3 Bloomer (72)
SCOTLAND:
Kenneth Anderson (3/Queen's Park) -
John Drummond (8/Rangers)
Daniel Doyle (8/Celtic) -
Neil Gibson (7/Rangers)
James Cowan [c] (3/Aston Villa)
John Tait Robertson (1/Everton) -
John Watson Bell (5/Everton)
John Campbell (2) (4/Celtic)
William Sturrock Maxwell (1/Stoke)
James Miller (3/Rangers)
Alexander Smith (1/Rangers)
ENGLAND:
John William Robinson - William John Oakley, William Williams - Frank Forman,
Charles Wreford-Brown, Ernest Needham - Charles Athersmith, Stephen Bloomer,
Gilbert Oswald Smith [c], George Frederick Wheldon, Frederick Spiksley.
Notes: Scotland were runners-up. England won the home title.
(Match 66) 18th March 1899 (16th Home International Championship)
WALES - SCOTLAND 0-6 (0-1)
Referee: Charles Edward Sutcliffe (England)
Crowd: 12.000, The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
Goals: 0-1 Campbell (22), 0-2 McColl (50), 0-3 Campbell (53), 0-4 Marshall (70),
0-5 McColl (75), 0-6 McColl (85)
WALES:
James Trainer - John Samuel Matthias, Horace Elford Blew - George Richards,
John Leonard Jones [c], Edward Hughes - Frederick Charles Kelly, Trevor Owen,
Morgan Maddox Morgan-Owen, Ralph Stanley Jones, Arthur Grenville Morris.
SCOTLAND:
Daniel McArthur (3/Celtic) -
Nicol Smith [c] (3/Rangers)
David Storrier (1/Celtic) -
Neil Gibson (8/Rangers)
Henry James Hall Marshall (1/Celtic)
Alexander King (5/Celtic) -
John William Campbell (1/Rangers)
Robert Cumming Hamilton (1/Rangers)
Robert Smyth McColl (5/Queen's Park)
John Watson Bell (6/Celtic)
Davidson Berry (2/Queen's Park)
(Match 67) 25th March 1899 (16th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - IRELAND 9-1 (5-0)
Referee: Charles Edward Sutcliffe (England)
Crowd: 12.000, Celtic Park, Glasgow
Goals: 1-0 McColl (5), 2-0 Christie (7), 3-0 Hamilton (20), 4-0 McColl (22),
5-0 Bell (35), 6-0 McColl (47), 6-1 Goodall (52), 7-1 Hamilton (65),
8-1 Campbell (70), 9-1 Campbell (80)
SCOTLAND:
Matthew Dickie (2/Rangers) -
Nicol Smith (4/Rangers)
David Storrier [c] (2/Celtic) -
Neil Gibson (9/Rangers)
Alexander Jack Christie (2/Queen's Park)
Alexander King (6/Celtic) -
John William Campbell (2/Rangers)
Robert Cumming Hamilton (2/Rangers)
Robert Smyth McColl (6/Queen's Park)
Davidson Berry (3/Queen's Park)
John Watson Bell (7/Celtic)
IRELAND:
James Lewis [c] - Samuel Swan, Thomas Agnew Foreman - William John Stewart Anderson,
Archibald Lee Goodall, John McShane - George Faber Sheehan, James Meldon, James Pyper,
James Wilson McCashin, Joseph Croft McAllen.
(Match 68) 8th April 1899 (16th Home International Championship)
ENGLAND - SCOTLAND 2-1 (2-0)
Referee: James Torrans (Ireland)
Crowd: 25.590, Villa Park, Aston (Aston became part of the city of Birmingham in 1911)
Goals: 1-0 Smith (25), 2-0 Settle (40), 2-1 Hamilton (52)
ENGLAND:
John William Robinson - Henry Thickitt, James William Crabtree - Raby Howell, Frank Forman,
Ernest Needham - Charles Athersmith, Stephen Bloomer, Gilbert Oswald Smith [c], James Settle,
Frederick Ralph Forman.
SCOTLAND:
John [Edward] Doig (4/Sunderland) -
Nicol Smith [c] (5/Rangers)
David Storrier (3/Celtic) -
Neil Gibson (10/Rangers)
Alexander Jack Christie (3/Queen's Park)
John Tait Robertson (2/Southampton) -
John William Campbell (3/Rangers)
Robert Cumming Hamilton (3/Rangers)
Robert Smyth McColl (7/Queen's Park)
Hugh Morgan (2/Liverpool)
John Watson Bell (8/Celtic)
Notes: Scotland were runners-up. England won the home title.
(Match 69) 3rd February 1900 (17th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - WALES 5-2 (4-1)
Referee: Charles Edward Sutcliffe (England)
Crowd: 12.500, Pittodrie Park, Aberdeen
Goals: 1-0 Bell (2), 2-0 Wilson (7), 3-0 Wilson (35), 4-0 Hamilton (37),
4-1 Parry (45), 4-2 Butler (60), 5-2 A.Smith (61)
SCOTLAND:
Matthew Dickie (3/Rangers) -
Nicol Smith (6/Rangers)
David Crawford (3/Rangers) -
James Hay Irons (1/Queen's Park)
Robert Scott Gibson Neill (2/Rangers)
John Tait Robertson (3/Rangers) -
John Watson Bell (9/Celtic)
David Wilson (1) (1/Queen's Park)
Robert Smyth McColl (8/Queen's Park)
Robert Cumming Hamilton [c] (4/Rangers)
Alexander Smith (2/Rangers)
WALES:
Frederick John Griffiths - Charles Edward Thomas, Charles Richard Morris - Samuel Meredith,
John Leonard Jones [c], William Clare Harrison - David Henry Pugh, William Thomas Butler,
Richard Jones, Thomas David Parry, Alfred Ernest Watkins.
Notes: David Wilson (1) - (Queen's Park, one cap: 3rd February 1900).
(Match 70) 3rd March 1900 (17th Home International Championship)
IRELAND - SCOTLAND 0-3 (0-2)
Referee: Charles Edward Sutcliffe (England)
Crowd: 6.000, Solitude, Belfast
Goals: 0-1 Campbell (8), 0-2 A.Smith (23), 0-3 Campbell (83)
IRELAND:
James Lewis - John Stanley Pyper, Michael Cochrane - John McShane [c], John Barry,
Hugh Maginnis - James Campbell, John Darling, Patrick McAuley, Joseph Croft McAllen,
Alfred Kearns.
SCOTLAND:
Henry George Rennie (1/Heart of Midlothian) -
Nicol Smith (7/Rangers)
Robert Glen (3/Hibernian) -
Neil Gibson (11/Rangers)
Henry James Hall Marshall [c] (2/Celtic)
William Orr (1/Celtic) -
William Garven Stewart (2/Queen's Park)
Robert Staig Walker (1/Heart of Midlothian)
John Campbell (2) (5/Celtic)
Patrick Callaghan (1/Hibernian)
Alexander Smith (3/Rangers)
(Match 71) 7th April 1900 (17th Home International Championship)
SCOTLAND - ENGLAND 4-1 (4-1)
Referee: James Torrans (Ireland)
Crowd: 63.000, Celtic Park, Glasgow
Goals: 1-0 McColl (1), 2-0 Bell (6), 3-0 McColl (25), 3-1 Bloomer (35), 4-1 McColl (44)
SCOTLAND:
Henry George Rennie (2/Heart of Midlothian) -
Nicol Smith (8/Rangers)
John Drummond (9/Rangers) -
Neil Gibson (12/Rangers)
Alexander Galloway Raisbeck (1/Liverpool)
John Tait Robertson [c] (4/Rangers) -
John Watson Bell (10/Celtic)
Robert Staig Walker (2/Heart of Midlothian)
Robert Smyth McColl (9/Queen's Park)
John Campbell (2) (6/Celtic)
Alexander Smith (4/Rangers)
ENGLAND:
John William Robinson - William John Oakley, James William Crabtree - William Harrison Johnson,
Arthur Chadwick, Ernest Needham - Charles Athersmith, Stephen Bloomer, Gilbert Oswald Smith [c],
Geoffrey Plumpton Wilson, John Plant.
Notes: Scotland won the home title for the eighth time outright - plus two shared with England.
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