Stenhousemuir 2 - 1 Aberdeen

While we would have liked to have seen the Aberdeen A team win, we are by no means dispirited at their defeat by the Stenhousemuir. Rather do we see in it a sign that they are a capable eleven, for to travel to Stenhousemuir and then only to be defeated by 2-1 shows that there is some talent amongst them. We do not look for extraordinary things from the A team at all and, looking at the teams they will have to face, we can hardly expect it. But they will make a good show, and if they don't win every match, it will only he for this reason that they have struck a better team. There is plenty of interest being taken in their doings, and they are assured of a right good royal welcome when they show their faces for the first time this year a Pittodrie.

Source: Bon-Accord August 25, 1904

Aberdeen A travelled to Stenhousemuir to play off their first Northern League fixture. Teams:- Aberdeen A: Barrett; Murray, Brebner; R. Ritchie, Thomson, Robertson; Walker, Cruickshank, McIntyre, Shiach, G. Ritchie. Stenhousemuir: Queen; Hill, Fairley; Silcock, McBride, Weir; Buchanan, Pollock, McIntosh, McGuire, McCafferty. Referee - Mr. Hood, St Johnstone.

The community of Stenhousemuir and district did not favour the match to any extent with their patronage, as not more than 100 spectators lined the ropes.

Source Aberdeen Daily Journal, 22nd August 1904