Brechin won the toss, and the Victoria kicked off. From midfield the ground team made a splendid attack upon their opponents' goal, and about a minute from the start Annand, from a pass by Benzie, scored the first goal amid deafening cheers. When the ball was restarted the Brechin players, with considerable dash, drove the Vics, before them, and on two occasions Gray had difficulty in keeping his charge intact. Beyond a couple of behinds, however, nothing resulted, and the Aberdonians, by several judicious passes, made for the north goal. Benzie and Turner conducted a likely shot, but Hendry was equal to the occasion, and in a twinkling his compeers were swarming in the vicinity of the United charge. The defence of the backs remained unbroken despite all the visitors' efforts, and before long the Brechin were called upon to assume the defensive. With little difficulty Sutherland notched a second point, and in a few seconds Benzie had the hardest of hard lines in not adding to the total. Before the visitors had an opportunity of getting on the leather it was taken in charge by Milne, who was successful in putting on a third point. It was evident that the Vics were too much for their opponents. Although Brechin sometimes managed to get very near the home citadel, their forwards did not appear to be able by combined effort to send the ball home. Not very long after the third goal had been put on, a scrimmage took place in the strangers' territory, and a beautiful header by Sutherland was converted into goal number four. Henderson, of Brechin, subsequently made a splendid run, and it was only by playing all he knew that Gray saved his team from disaster. For a few minutes the home team were considerably harassed, but at length they cleared their ground. Ferries secured a fifth goal, and from a corner immediately thereafter Sutherland forced the loather through for the sixth time. A seventh was added by Benzie, and at half-time the score stood:- Victoria United, 7 ; Brechin, 0.

Sutherland opened the second half by registering an eighth goal, and in retaliation Brechin attacked the home Charge, a splendid shot striking the crossbar, and rebounding into play. Some time afterwards the Vics put the ball past Hendry, but offsides was claimed and allowed, and the strangers then had a run which might have been crowned with success, but it wasn't. Ferries scored a ninth goal for the United, From the turn the play had taken it did not seem very probable that the visitors would during the remainder of the play register an initial point, and it was thus a pleasant relief in the monotony when they, by a surprising effort, drove the Vics, before them and gained their first point. Ferrier did the needful. No further scoring took place, and the result at the call of time stood Victoria United 9, Brechin 1.

Source: Aberdeen Journal, 24th October 1892

Source: Bon-Accord, 29th October 1892