| Description | This early big sheet is in two parts, one lists the players and the other includes a diagram of the players positions as well as information about the teams and match. It is accompanied by:
- Programme signed by Bill McLaren.
- Notes concerning the teams and players.
- Cuttings and pages from the Evening Herald, the Dublin Evening Mail and other unidentified newspapers.
- Letters from W. B. Sanderson of Sanderson Travel Service to Bill McLaren regarding his travel arrangements, dated 25 January - 17 February 1956, with a leaflet for the Glasgow - Belfast Burns Laird Line.
This match was part of the Five Nations Championship. The score was Ireland 14 - 10 Scotland. The big sheet records:
Ireland
Team: [Patrick] Berkery, [William] Hewitt, [Noel] Henderson, [Tony] O'Rielly [O'Reilly], [Cecil] Pedlow, [Jackie] Kyle, [John] O'Meara, [Cecil] Fagan, [Robin] Roe, [Gordon] Wood, [Brendan] Guerin, [Leo] Lynch, [Charles] Lydon, [James] Kavanagh and [Marney] Cunningham.
Scotland
Team: [Robin] Chisholm, [Arthur] Smith, [Thomas] McClung, [Keith] McDonald [Macdonald], [Ian] Swan, [Angus] Cameron, [Arthur] Dorward, [Hugh] McLeod, [Robert] McEwen [MacEwen], [Tom] Elliot, [Hamish] Kemp, [Ernest] Michie, [Ian] McGregor [MacGregor], [Jim] Greenwood and [Adam] Robson. |