S C O T L A N D - Internationals 1897

(Match 60)  20th March 1897  (British Championship)
WALES - SCOTLAND  2-2  (1-1)
Referee:   Thomas Armitt (England)
Crowd:     5.000, The Racecourse, Wrexham
Goals:     0-1 	John L.Ritchie  (Penalty)	 
	   1-1 	Morgan Maddox Morgan-Owen
	   1-2 	John Walker 
	   2-2 	David Henry Pugh
WALES:
James Trainer (Captain) - 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 L. Ritchie (Captain)	(1/Queen's Park)
David Richmond Gardner		(1/Third Lanark) -
Bernard Breslin			(1/Hibernian)
David Kennedy Russell		(3/Celtic)
Alexander Lowson Keillor	(6/Dundee) -
John Kennedy			(1/Hibernian)
Patrick Murray			(2/Hibernian)
James Oswald			(3/Rangers)
J. McMillan			(1/St Bernard's)
John Walker			(2/Heart of Midlothian)



(Match 61)  27th March 1897  (British Championship)
SCOTLAND - IRELAND  5-1  (4-0)
Referee:   James Cooper (Wales)
Crowd:     15.000, Ibrox Park, Glasgow
Goals:     1-0 	John McPherson 
	   2-0 	Neil Gibson 
	   3-0 	Robert Smyth McColl 
	   4-0 	Alexander King
	   4-1 	James Pyper 
	   5-1 	John McPherson
SCOTLAND:
Matthew Dickie			(1/Rangers) -
Duncan McLean			(2/St Bernard's)
John Drummond (Captain)		(7/Rangers) -
Neil Gibson			(5/Rangers)
William Urquhart Baird		(1/St Bernard's)
David Stewart			(3/Queen's Park) -
Thomas Pollock Low		(1/Queen's Park)
John McPherson			(9/Queen's Park)
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 S.Pyper, Robert G.Milne, 
George McMaster (Captain) - James Campbell, Olphert M.Stanfield, James Pyper, John 
Darling, John Peden.



(Match 62)  3rd April 1897  (British Championship)
ENGLAND - SCOTLAND  1-2  (1-1)
Referee:   Richard Thomas Gough (Wales)
Crowd:     35.000, Crystal Palace, London
Goals:     1-0 	Stephen Bloomer 		19' 
	   1-1 	Thomas Hyslop 			27'
	   1-2 	James Millar 			83'
ENGLAND:
John William Robinson - Howard Spencer, William John Oakley - John Reynolds, Thomas 
Henry Crawshaw, Ernest Needham - William Charles Athersmith, Stephen Bloomer, Gilbert 
Oswald Smith (Captain), Edgar Wallace Chadwick, Alfred Weatherell 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/Sunderland) -
John Bell			(4/Everton)
James Millar			(1/Rangers)
George Horsburgh Allan		(1/Liverpool)
Thomas Hyslop			(2/Rangers)
William Allan Lambie (Captain)	(9/Queen's Park)

NOTES:	
	Scotland won the British Home Championship for the 7th time outright - plus two
	shared with England.