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Aberdeen 3 - 1 Royal Navy XI

HT Score: Aberdeen 2 - 0 Royal Navy XI

Friendly
Royal Navy team drawn from HMS Sappho
Aberdeen scorers: Unknown, Unknown, Unknown.

19/02/1916 | KO: 15:30

A few hundred spectators witnessed the game at Pittodrie, between teams representing the Aberdeen Reserves and one of H.M. ships. it cannot be said that the game was evenly contested. The Reserves were all over the Navymen, and could have put up a large score had they cared to do so, but they wisely refrained. At the interval the reserves lead by two goals to nil, and the game ended in a win for the reserves by three goals to one. The Navymen worked hard, but the lack of training for such an encounter told against them.

Source: Aberdeen Daily Journal, 21st February, 1916

Aberdeen Teamsheet
Greig, Younie, Moir, Grubb, Bannerman, Crichton, Taylor, Stalker, McLeod, Robertson, Duff.
Royal Navy XI Teamsheet
Linton, Thompson, Dearn, Carliss, Fisher, Wilde, Leannard, James, Whitmore, Green, Manship.
Venue: Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen