Alexander Rhind played in the first international football match between Scotland and England 150 years ago.
On a late autumn day in 1872, a crowd of a few thousand gathered at the West of Scotland Cricket Ground to witness sporting history.
In his book First Elevens, The Birth of International Football, football historian Andy Mitchell notes: "Rhind was in the right place at the right time, as until that summer he had played for the Queen's Park second eleven."Artists drawings of scenes from the first international football match. ublished in The Graphic in 1872
In 1872 the league championships in Scotland and England were more than a decade away from being formed and the first FA Cup tournament had just completed in England, with the Scottish competition about to start the following year.
Alexander and his family lived at various houses west of the River Ness, addresses befitting a businessman, and also in close proximity to the Telford Street home of Caledonian Football Club.
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