S C O T L A N D - Internationals 1876
(Match 5) 4th March 1876 (Friendly match)
SCOTLAND - ENGLAND 3-0 (3-0)
Referee: William C. Mitchell (Scotland)
Crowd: 15.000, West of Scotland Cricket Ground, Glasgow
Goals: 1-0 William Muir MacKinnon 8'
2-0 Henry McNiel 12'
3-0 Thomas Cochrane Highet 16'
SCOTLAND:
Alexander McGeoch (1/Dumbreck) -
Joseph Taylor (Captain) (5/Queen's Park)
John Hunter (3/3rd Lanark Rifle Volunteers) -
Alexander McLintock (2/Vale of Leven)
Alexander Kennedy (2/Glasgow Eastern) -
Henry McNiel (3/Queen's Park)
William Muir MacKinnon (5/Queen's Park)
Thomas Cochrane Highet (2/Queen's Park)
William Miller (1/3rd Lanark Rifle Volunteers)
John Ferguson (2/Vale of Leven)
John Campbell Baird (1/Vale of Leven)
ENGLAND:
Arthur Henry Patrick Savage - Edgar Field, Frederick Thomas Green - Beaumont Griffith
Jarrett, Ernest Henry Bambridge - Walter Scott Buchanan, George Hubert (Hugh) Heron,
Charles Eastlake Smith, William John Maynard, Charles Francis William Heron (Captain),
Arthur William Cursham.
(Match 6) 25th March 1876 (Friendly match)
SCOTLAND - WALES 4-0 (1-0)
Referee: Robert Gardner (Scotland)
Crowd: 17.000, West of Scotland Cricket Ground, Glasgow
Goals: 1-0 John Ferguson 40'
2-0 James J.Lang 48'
3-0 William Muir MacKinnon
4-0 Henry McNiel
SCOTLAND:
Alexander McGeoch (2/Dumbreck) -
Joseph Taylor (6/Queen's Park)
Robert W. Neill (1/Queen's Park) -
Alexander Kennedy (3/Glasgow Eastern)
Charles Campbell (Captain) (2/Queen's Park) -
Thomas Cochrane Highet (3/Queen's Park)
John Ferguson (3/Vale of Leven)
James J. Lang (1/Clydesdale)
William Muir MacKinnon (6/Queen's Park)
Moses McLay McNiel (1/Rangers)
Henry McNiel (4/Queen's Park)
WALES:
David Thomson - William Addams Williams Evans, Samuel Llewelyn Kenrick (Captain) - Edwin
Alfred Cross, William Williams - Dr.Daniel Grey, William Henry Davies, George Frederick
Thomson, John Hawley Edwards, John Jones, Alfred Davies.
Notes: Henry & Moses McNiel were the first Brothers to play for Scotland.
Some sources give their Surname as McNeil, but this is wrong according to the
Birth Certificate of Henry McNiel.