However, in practice it was used to showcase Scottish talent, and the side was formed primarily to play against international opposition.
[1] The first international match of the Combined Scottish Districts side can be taken as on 27 November 1912 to play against South Africa at New Anniesland in Glasgow.
Only the Glasgow Herald reported the resulting team as a 'Glasgow and Districts' side.
EASY VICTORY FOR THE COLONIALS What was officially designated a Glasgow and Districts fifteen, was really a Scottish one, containing as it did men from all parts of the country, north, south, east, and west, proved no match yesterday for the South Africans who then played their second and concluding engagement in Scotland.
Brown (Melrose), J. Moffat (Langholm), M. Jardine (Gala) From Midlands District: J. R. Philip (Panmure), J.