Description | The big sheet is signed by Bill McLaren and has noted on the reverse 'Commentary on whole game for BBC2 "Rugby Special"'. It is accompanied by an annotated programme, a draft match report, notes, including a description of the score, and newspaper cuttings of a report by McLaren entitled 'Heriot's pack on top in narrow victory against Watsonians' and a photograph of the match showing the BBC team.
The score was Heriot's FP 8 - 3 Watsonians. The big sheet records:
Heriot's FP Team: Ronnie Scotland, Gil Borthwick, Bruce Welton, Jim Craig, Tony Hogarth, Derek Lee, George Goddard, John Ross, George Shand, Ian Lawrie, James 'Jimmy' Simpson, Charlie Bisset, Robin Smith, Eric Ferguson and David Clark.
Watsonians Team: Frank Tullo, Bob Keddie, Maxie McLaren [MacLaren?], Stuart Davidson, Alister Weir, Neil Patrick, Graham Young, George Thomson, David Paterson, Neil Lumsden, Shields Henderson, Douglas Hood, Peter Gallacher [Gallagher], Alan McNish and Michael Barrie. |