Description | The big sheet is signed by Bill McLaren. It is accompanied by : - Programme. - Catalogued match report. - Typescript biographies of Ireland's players with notes on the reverse. - Memorandum from Archive Henry of O.B.P. Glasgow to Bill McLaren and others providing the match running order, dated 14 February 1961. - Letter from Bill [?] to Bill [?] describing the match, dated 27 February 1961. - Cutting from the Scottish Sunday Express.
This match was part of the Five Nations Championship. The score was Scotland 16 - 8 Ireland. The big sheet records:
Scotland Team: [Ken] Scotland, [Arthur] Smith, [George] Stevenson, [Edward] McKeating, [Ronald] Thomson, [Iain] Laughland, [Alex] Hastie, [Hugh] McLeod, [Norman] Bruce, [David] Rollo, [F. H. Frans] ten Bos, [Mike] Campbell-Lamerton, [Kenneth] Ross, [John] Douglas and [Ken] Smith.
Wales Team: [Tom] Kiernan, [Cecil] Pedlow (name and information pasted onto the big sheet over other players names), [Jerry] Walsh, [Dave] Hewitt, [Niall] Brophy, [Michael] English, [Jonathan] Moffat [Moffett], [Gordon] Wood, [Ronnie] Dawson, [Syd] Miller [Millar], [Bill] Mulcahy, [Michael] Culliton, [Noel] Murphy, [Patrick] O'Sullivan and [James] Kavanagh. |