S C O T L A N D - Internationals 1953
(Match 226) 18th April 1953 (British Championship)
ENGLAND - SCOTLAND 2-2 (1-0)
Referee: Thomas Mitchell (Northern Ireland)
Crowd: 97.000, Wembley Stadium, London
Goals: 1-0 Ivor Broadis 18'
1-1 Lawrence Reilly 55'
2-1 Ivor Broadis 69'
2-2 Lawrence Reilly 89'
ENGLAND: (Manager: Walter Winterbottom)
Gilbert Harold Merrick - Alfred Ernest Ramsey, Lionel Smith - William Ambrose Wright
(Captain), Malcolm Williamson Barrass, James William Dickinson - Thomas Finney,
Ivan Arthur (Ivor) Broadis, Nathaniel Lofthouse, Redfern Froggatt, Jack Froggatt.
SCOTLAND:
George Neil Farm (3/Blackpool) -
George Lewis Young (Captain) (36/Rangers)
Samuel Richmond Cox (21/Rangers) -
Thomas Henderson Docherty (2/Preston North End)
Frank Brennan (5/Newcastle United)
Douglas Cowie (1/Dundee) -
Thomas Wright (3/Sunderland)
Robert Johnstone (6/Hibernian)
Lawrence Reilly (22/Hibernian)
William Steel (29/Dundee)
William Beveridge Liddell (22/Liverpool)
NOTES:
Scotland & England shared the British Home Championship title.
(Match 227) 6th May 1953 (Friendly match)
SCOTLAND - SWEDEN 1-2 (1-1)
Referee: William Ling (England)
Crowd: 83.800, Hampden Park, Glasgow
Goals: 0-1 Gosta Lofgren 32'
1-1 Robert Johnstone 40'
1-2 Lars Eriksson 55'
SCOTLAND:
George Neil Farm (4/Blackpool) -
George Lewis Young (Captain) (37/Rangers)
R. John Little (1/Rangers) -
Robert Evans (12/Celtic)
Douglas Cowie (2/Dundee)
Thomas Henderson Docherty (3/Preston North End) -
John Gillespie Henderson (1/Portsmouth)
Robert Johnstone (7/Hibernian)
Lawrence Reilly (23/Hibernian)
William Steel (30/Dundee)
Thomas Ring (1/Clyde)
SWEDEN:
Karl Svensson - Orvar Bergmark, Lennart Samuelsson - Sven-Ove Svensson, Bengt
Gustavsson, Gosta Lindh - Gosta Sandberg, Hans Andersson, Gosta Lofgren, Lars
Eriksson, Sylve Bengtsson.
(Match 228) 3rd October 1953 (British Championship & World Cup Qualifying Group 3)
NORTHERN IRELAND - SCOTLAND 1-3 (0-0)
Referee: Arthur Edward Ellis (England)
Crowd: 58.248, Windsor Park, Belfast
Goals: 0-1 Charles Fleming 47'
0-2 Charles Fleming 69'
1-2 Norman Lockhart 72' Penalty
1-3 John Gillespie Henderson 89'
NORTHERN IRELAND:
William Smyth - William Edward Cunningham, Alfred McMichael - Robert Dennis (Danny)
Blanchflower, James Joseph McCabe, Wilbur Cush - William Laurence Bingham, James McIlroy,
William Simpson, Charles Tully, Norman Lockhart.
SCOTLAND:
George Neil Farm (5/Blackpool) -
George Lewis Young (Captain) (38/Rangers)
Samuel Richmond Cox (22/Rangers) -
Robert Evans (13/Celtic)
Frank Brennan (6/Newcastle United)
Douglas Cowie (3/Dundee) -
William Waddell (15/Rangers)
Charles Fleming (1/East Fife)
John McPhail (5/Celtic)
James Watson (2/Huddersfield Town)
John Gillespie Henderson (2/Portsmouth)
(Match 229) 4th November 1953 (British Championship & World Cup Qualifying Group 3)
SCOTLAND - WALES 3-3 (2-0)
Referee: Thomas Mitchell (Northern Ireland)
Crowd: 71.378, Hampden Park, Glasgow
Goals: 1-0 Allan Duncan Brown 19'
2-0 Robert Johnstone 42'
2-1 John Charles 49'
3-1 Lawrence Reilly 58'
3-2 Ivor John Allchurch 73'
3-3 John Charles 88'
SCOTLAND:
George Neil Farm (6/Blackpool) -
George Lewis Young (Captain) (39/Rangers)
Samuel Richmond Cox (23/Rangers) -
Robert Evans (14/Celtic)
William Douglas Telfer (1/St Mirren)
Douglas Cowie (4/Dundee) -
John Archie Mackenzie (1/Partick Thistle)
Robert Johnstone (8/Hibernian)
Lawrence Reilly (24/Hibernian)
Allan Duncan Brown (8/Blackpool)
William Beveridge Liddell (23/Liverpool)
WALES:
Ronald Gilbert Howells - Walley Barnes, Alfred Thomas Sherwood - Royston Paul,
William Raymond Daniel, William Arthur (Ronald) Burgess - William Isaiah Foulkes,
Ellis Reginald Davies, William (John) Charles, Ivor John Allchurch, Royston James Clarke.