During the match Glasgow District's Malcolm Cross was seriously injured and had to be stretchered from the ground.

The smaller teams provided – as The Glasgow Herald reported – the best Inter-City match ever played; and the attendance, having dropped with the nil-nils previously with the 20-a-side format, was also boosted to 5,000 spectators.

[2] Directly after the second inter-city match, the SRU met to discuss a fixture between East and West districts.

The East and West fixture thus became the main trial match for the Scotland international team.

The Scotland international team was due to play its English counterparts on 8 March 1876; hence the East v West district match was to be held on Saturday 26 February 1876.