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.