These matches, with more players on the park, made it harder to score.

Both inter-city matches this season show just how difficult it was to score when the teams were 20-a-side.

[3] It was noted that the 1875 match was played in two halves lasting 50 minutes each.

[4] Glasgow District: William Davie Brown [captain], James Stewart Carrick (both Glasgow Academicals) Malcolm Cross (Glasgow Academicals), William Hamilton Kidston (West of Scotland) James Howe McClure, George Buchanan McClure (both West of Scotland), John Kennedy Tod (Glasgow Academicals) Gilbert Heron, Charles Chalmers Bryce, Allan Arthur, Henry William Allan, George Raphael Fleming (all Glasgow Academicals), Tom Paterson Neilson, John Alexander Neilson, J.S.

Tod, A. Arwell, S. Smith, H. Allen, J. H. Dunlop, F. McRae, W. S. Brown (all Glasgow Academicals), W. R. Russell, J. Cochrane (both West of Scotland), J. Hutchinson (Glasgow University) No other District matches played.