Description | The big sheet has a note on the reverse concerning 'Rugby Sp[ecia]l' and two sections cut from it comprising information about Stewarts-Melville players, which has been transferred to a big sheet covering a match between Hawick and Stewarts-Melville in 1980. It is accompanied by an annotated programme and notes describing the match and score. The bundle also contains a letter from Colin Gemill, press liaison for the West of Scotland Football Club, to Bill McLaren concerning his commentary on a match between the West of Scotland and Gosforth on 18 September [1976], dated 28 August 1976.
The score of this National League Division One match was West of Scotland 9 - 6 Stewarts-Melville. The big sheet records:
West of Scotland Team: Colin Mair, Tim Dunlop, Jim Gossman, Donnie Robertson, Matt Duncan, Duncan Drummond, Brian Gossman, Gerry McGuinness, Douglas Livingstone, Hamish Logan, David Gray, Ian Little, Tony Brogan, David Murray and Gordon Hamilton. President: John Cowie. Coach: Alan Quinn and Q. Dunlop.
Stewarts-Melville Team: Ian Morrison, Lindsay Duguid, Ian Duguid, David Lister, Andy Blackwood, Derek Calder, Douglas Morgan, Alastair Aitken, Dick Colledge, Gavin Calder, Hamish Clark, Finlay Calder, Jim Calder, John Calder and Alex Brewster. President: Gordon Ellis. Coach: Ian McLauchlan. Physiotherapist: Paul Caton.
Referee: Alan Hosie. Assistant referees / touch judges: Colin Gemmill and Bert Barclay. Groundsman: Mickie McCombe. Also listed: Colin Mair. |