Date	Saturday, 05 September 1931
Competition	Highland League
Fixture/Score	Ross County 1:2 Huntly
Venue	Victoria Park
Referee	Tom Muir
Ross County
Manager	John (Jock) Ramage
Starting 11	1: ? Scott, 2: Roddie Munro, 3: Sonny MacKenzie, 4: Dick Traill 1, 5: John Ramage, 6: Ackie Urquhart, 7: Ackie MacKay, 8: Dave Cowie, 9: Robert MacLeod, 10: ??? Broadford, 11: Charlie Cameron
Bench
Attendance
Match Report	Report from the Ross-shire Journal. Ross County 1 Huntly 2 Until the last ten minutes—perhaps it was less, for the referee was scanning the face of his watch—there were no thrills in the Ross County v. Huntly match. Huntly won and shouldn’t have. They won because right through the game there was no cohesion in the Ross County forward line. This does happen when experiments have to be made. With the wind behind them, the County team imprisoned Huntly at the jail end and rained shots goalwards. The goalkeeper was sound, and otherwise, the goalposts were neither too high nor too wide apart! Ramage, taking a penalty kick, planted it dead into the goalkeeper, who diverted it promptly. Meantime, Huntly raided at intervals; raided a defence which was less watchful because it had little to do, and the ball, when biffed, ballooned downfield. Result: Huntly scored while the County could not. County supporters like goals: goals scored by County players. When they don’t get them, they lapse into boredom or become loud ringside critics. At half-time, the forward line was reorganised. It did not work any better. The wind was baffling, even if it had moderated. Two down, ten minutes to go, glum County faces; players looking dog-tired; Huntly with glad eyes. And then the final thrill. Trail, who was labouring with a crocked leg, stepped up inside to Charlie Cameron; Mackay had taken the pivot place vice Broadfoot to wing-half. Punch came into the whole attack. A goal resulted. The team went all out and the game ended, the thrill broken and the score closed, 2-1 by the sound of the referee’s whistle! When Aird resumes, the County forwards will knit better together. Still, some people would like to see a player as dogged and as thrustful as Trail backing Charlie Cameron; and what about R. Garrow in the half-line? The game opened briskly with the County making inroads on the Huntly defence. Loney, whose first game this season it was, scintillated on the right wing and more use should have been made of his lovely passes, but there was ineptness in front of goal and Aird’s opportunism was sorely missed. Macleod was no success as a centre-forward, while both Broadfoot and Cowie shot poorly. The game had the aspect of a comfortable win for the County, and Urquhart, Ramage, and Cameron came near to finding the net. Huntly took heart from the numerous Ross County misses and from one of their occasional break-aways, Nicol scored much against the run of play. County kept pegging away, and when a penalty was awarded them, it was ill-luck on them when Paul blocked Ramage's shot. Crossing over with a lead of one goal and the wind decidedly in their favour, Huntly assumed a more aggressive attitude. But the football was very poor on both sides, and it was hard to believe that it was a senior match one was witnessing. Huntly increased their lead through Grant. With a reconstructed County eleven, the game awakened up somewhat and when they reduced the score, a desperate rally took place on the homesters' part but to no advantage, Huntly snatching the two points, if somewhat luckily on the run of play. Scott, in the County goal, and Mackay were the only two players to come out of the game with any credit. The rest seemed to settle down, and it looked as if they expected the points to be coming in easy fashion, and when they realised they had to be fought for, their effort was too late. Huntly had a smart pair of backs with a never-say-die half-line, who stuck pluckily to their job, and although not playing the standard of football expected of them, got there nevertheless. The less said about the game the better; it was one of the worst exhibitions of senior football yet seen in Dingwall. I sincerely hope that this was the County's off-day, and they have got it over for at least this season. Mr. Tom Muir, Inverness, was an excellent referee and handled the game very satisfactorily.