S C O T L A N D - Internationals 1896

(Match 57)  21st March 1896  (British Championship)
SCOTLAND - WALES  4-0  (2-0)
Referee:   Joseph McBride (Ireland)
Crowd:     11.700, Carolina Port, Dundee
Goals:     1-0 	Robert G.Neil
	   2-0 	Alexander Lowson Keillor
	   3-0 	Daniel John Ferguson Paton
	   4-0 	Robert G.Neil
SCOTLAND:
Robert McFarlane		(1/Greenock Morton) -
Duncan McLean			(1/St Bernard's)
Robert Glen			(2/Renton) -
John Gillespie (Captain)	(1/Queen's Park)
Robert G. Neil			(1/Hibernian)
William Blair			(1/Third Lanark) -
William Thomson			(1/Dundee)
Daniel John Ferguson Paton	(1/St Bernard's)
Robert Smyth McColl		(1/Queen's Park)
Alexander King			(1/Heart of Midlothian)
Alexander Lowson Keillor	(5/Dundee)

WALES:
James Trainer (Captain) -Charles Frederick Parry, John Samuel Matthias - Joseph 
P.Rogers, Caesar August Llewelyn Jenkyns, John Leonard Jones - David Henry Pugh, 
John Garner, Arthur Grenville Morris, John Charles Rea, William Lewis.

NOTES:	
	Robert Smyth McColl started the Newsagent chain R.S.McColl in 1910, and it still
	exists to this day.



(Match 58)  28th March 1896  (British Championship)
IRELAND - SCOTLAND  3-3  (3-2)
Referee:   James Cooper (England)
Crowd:     8.000, Solitude Ground, Belfast
Goals:     0-1 	Robert Smyth McColl 		 7'
	   1-1 	James H.Barron
	   1-2 	Robert Smyth McColl
	   2-2 	James H.Barron 
	   3-2 	Robert G.Milne 			 Penalty 
	   3-3 	Patrick Murray
IRELAND:
Thomas Scott - John Ponsonby, Samuel Torrans - Hugh Gordon (Captain), Robert G.Milne, 
James C. Fitzpatrick - Giddy Baird, E.Morrogh, Olphert M.Stanfield, James H.Barron, 
John Peden.

SCOTLAND:
Kenneth Anderson		(1/Queen's Park) -
Peter Meechan			(1/Celtic)
John Drummond			(5/Rangers) -
Neil Gibson			(3/Rangers)
James Kelly (Captain)		(8/Celtic)
George Hogg			(1/Heart of Midlothian) -
Patrick Murray			(1/Hibernian)
James Blessington		(3/Celtic)
Robert Smyth McColl		(2/Queen's Park)
John Cameron			(1/Queen's Park)
William Allan Lambie		(6/Queen's Park)



(Match 59)  4th April 1896  (British Championship)
SCOTLAND - ENGLAND  2-1  (2-0)
Referee:   Humphrey Percy Jones (Wales)
Crowd:     56.500, Celtic Park (Parkhead), Glasgow
Goals:     1-0 	William Allan Lambie 		22' 
	   2-0 	John Bell 			33'
	   2-1 	William Isaiah Bassett 		80'
SCOTLAND:
John Edward Doig		(3/Sunderland) -
John Drummond (Captain)		(6/Rangers)
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 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 (Captain), Harry Wood, Cuthbert James Burnup.
			
NOTES:	
	New World record attendance for a full International match.
	Scotland won the British Home Championship for the 6th time outright - plus two
	shared with England.