Date	Saturday, 14 September 1946
Competition	Highland League
Fixture/Score	Ross County 2:0 Fraserburgh
Venue	Victoria Park
Referee	Mr D. G. Mackintosh
Ross County
Manager	The Management Committee
Starting 11	1: Fred Newton, 2: Willie (Wicky) Spence, 3: Adam Forsyth 1, 4: James MacDonald, 5: John Patience, 6: DD Forsyth, 7: Frankie MacBeath 1, 8: Charles (Chic) Ogilvie, 9: Jocky (SNR) Clark, 10: Alick Ferguson, 11: Alistair MacDonald
Bench
Attendance	1,000
Match Report	Report from the Ross-shire Journal. Ross County 2 Fraserburgh 0 This game, which took place at Dingwall, was witnessed by 1000 spectators. The weather was fair, but a strong wind blew from the County Buildings goal. Otherwise the conditions were favourable. The goalkeeper and the outside-left were both Poles. Winning the toss, Fraserburgh took advantage of the wind. It was of little good to them. Piec had a good run down the wing, but his parting shot was weak. Later, Cardno sent in a good shot which Newton was glad to tip over the bar at the expense of a corner. It proved fruitless. Meantime the County had been weighing up their opponents. The forwards realising that the men behind them were quite able to hold their own, developed a sustained attack. Time after time they swept down the field, passing and re-passing—sometimes unnecessarily endangering their opponent's goal. But score they could not. A long shot from Spence was trapped by Clark, who just failed, the ball going past the wrong side of an upright. Macbeth also got away on his own, but his parting shot was futile. It took Adam Forsyth to show the way to goal. A free kick was given 35 yards out. Adam walked to the ball and let drive. It was a powerful, low shot, which left the Polish goalkeeper wondering what had happened. The lead was more than deserved. From this point up to half-time, the homesters were the masters, although they could not add to their score. This was due to two factors, the brilliance of the visiting goalkeeper and the rather slack methods of the County forwards in front of goal. They had several obvious scoring chances of which they could not avail themselves. Both Clark and Ogilvie must have wondered how they missed, but there always seemed to be a post, a foot and on occasions, an unsuspecting goalkeeper, in the way of the ball. But into the net it would not go. What astonished the spectators most was that Fraserburgh failed to benefit by the strong wind. All the forwards tried shots at the County goal, but Newton was never perilously troubled. Either the shooting was far too far out or too strong, often misdirected. Half-time arrived with Ross County leading by Adam Forsyth's single goal. The second half was a repetition of the first. Only one goal was scored, which enabled Ross County to retire two goals up. Again the home lot had by far the better of the exchanges, but it was late in the game before they made the result safe. Meantime they kept their supporters in tenterhooks. A mistake on the part of the defence might be disastrous. Fortunately the mistakes that were made were not of a serious nature. Fraserburgh did a good deal of strong kicking and rushing, but there was no method in it, and Patience first, then Adam Forsyth and Newton in the rear, covered up so well that all attempts to score were made to look weak and purposeless. The second goal came through Macbeth. Getting away on his own he crashed home a low ball, which went underneath the goalkeeper's hand at the foot of the post. The County was best served by its defenders. Patience was a great success at centre-half. Not only was he a stumbling block to the visiting attack, but he fed his forwards well, and on occasions had a shot at goal. Ogilvie was the best of the forwards. He was ever up in the vanguard and only clever goalkeeping kept him from counting. Neither wing men shone, Macbeth being more easily held than usual. Apart from their custodian, Fraserburgh was best served by Cardno and Nicol.