First International Sports Game: What Was It?
Rodolfo Mann
2025-04-13 04:31:03
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By this time the popularity of the game was spreading, and in the same year the first ever international rugby game was played between England and Scotland. Just 48 years after that first game at a school in Rugby, Scotland were the first side to win an international match.
April Harris
2025-04-01 12:11:35
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Officially recognised by FIFA as the first international football match ever played, held on St Andrews Day 1872. This was the match that sparked international football. Disgruntled at previous attempts to stage an international match between Scotland and England with Scotland sides being comprised of players hailing mostly from the London area, Queens Park FC managed to pull together a team of players to rise to the occasion. It is estimated between 2,500 – 4,000 spectators turned out to watch the game at the West of Scotland Cricket Club ground, paying one shilling each to be part of such a momentous day in the history of football, and indeed the world. The game was a huge success, and the quality of football on display received high praise across the media of the time.
Lyda Considine
2025-04-01 11:25:17
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The first rugby international took place at Raeburn Place on 27 March 1871. Scotland took on England in front of a crowd of 4,000 and, to the home support’s delight, won the encounter by two tries and a goal to England’s single try.
The match came about as a result of a challenge made by the captains of the five senior Scottish clubs - West of Scotland FC, Edinburgh Academicals FC, Merchistonian FC, Glasgow Academicals FC and St Salvator FC (St Andrew’s) – to the footballers of England to play a match “twenty-a-side, Rugby rules, either in Edinburgh or Glasgow...” In the absence of a rugby football union in either country, and as a result of the game being played at Raeburn Place, EAFC was left to organise the event, with ad hoc national committees selecting the respective teams.
There were many differences between that match and the game as played today. As well as being 20-a-side, the match was played over two 50-minute halves and the methods of scoring were different from those used today.
Erica Ledner
2025-04-01 10:49:09
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This game took place on the 18th of November at Ravenscraig Stadium, Greenock. This is a Daily Record poster for “The First Ever Ladies International, Scotland v. England.” For our second Women’s Wednesday Football Focus Series Post, we will be looking at the 1972 Women’s Scotland v. England game, which was the first official international women’s match to be played in Great Britain. This is a programme from the “First Ever Ladies International Football Match.”
Antonetta Lang
2025-04-01 10:48:18
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The first international game of rugby was played here in Scotland 150 years ago. On 27 March 1871 Scotland faced England at Edinburgh’s Raeburn Place, laying the foundation for the Calcutta Cup: one of the most eagerly anticipated matches in the annual rugby calendar. Scotland and England had played two unofficial matches under FA rules in 1870. However, those representing Scotland were largely men living in London with some connection to the country they were representing. But London based team Blackheath had walked away from the FA in 1863. They rose to the occasion and began to assemble a team.
A crowd of 4,000 spectators watched the match which was played on the grounds at Raeburn Place in the Edinburgh suburb of Stockbridge. The game was won by Scotland who scored two tries and one goal (what we would call a conversion) to England’s one try. The match was a financial, sporting and social success. The following year the teams played again, this time in London, and they then continued to play each other annually.
Fabiola Legros
2025-04-01 08:10:39
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The world's first international football match was held at Hamilton Crescent, the home of the West of Scotland Cricket Club, in Partick. Kicking off at 2pm on November 30, Scotland played England faced off. While the game may have kickstarted much excitement, the clash itself was a bit less entertaining - with the teams drawing 0-0. All eleven of the Scottish players were members of Queen's Park, the leading Scottish club at the time.
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