Date	Saturday, 04 December 1948
Competition	Highland League
Fixture/Score	Nairn County 0:4 Ross County
Venue	Station Park
Referee
Ross County
Manager	The Management Committee
Starting 11	1: Fred Newton, 2: Jimmy Farmer, 3: Fred Nimmo, 4: Finlay Browning, 5: John Patience, 6: George Sutherland, 7: Tommy Urquhart, 8: Jocky (SNR) Clark 1, 9: Charles (Chic) Ogilvie 2, 10: Alick Ferguson 1, 11: John (Johnny) Bremner
Bench
Attendance
Match Report	Report from the Ross-shire Journal. Nairn County 0 Ross County 4 By repeating their victory over Nairn, at Station Park, Ross County kept their slate clean for the second successive week and gained two more valuable points. Ogilvie set the game in motion, but it was the home side which took up the offensive with an abortive attack on the right, broken up by Nimmo. The County right wing then started a series of probing thrusts, and in one of these Clark lobbed the ball over Follon's head, ran round him to hit it as it fell, but drove inches wide of the post. After five minutes, Clark shoved a beautiful through pass to Ogilvie, and the centre, evading several attempts to bundle him off, hung on for fully twenty yards before rolling the ball past the advancing 'keeper. Again County took up the attack, and Urquhart slipped the ball to Clark, for Gardner to dive at the inside man's feet to save a certain score. The visiting team began to get confident — too confident, as it proved, for their close work was playing right into the Nairn side's hands. Their tip-tapping methods were instrumental in leading to the series of attacks which Nairn launched on the County goal. Stewart had a grand attempt which was only saved by Newton at the expense of a corner, and from the resultant clearance Ogilvie broke away only to be upended in the penalty box. However referee MacNiven waved play on, despite claims for a penalty. At the other end, Stewart put across a centre, which just missed the goal, with Newton beaten. Three successive miskicks in the County defence let in Macdonald, but with a grand scoring chance, the inside man blazed over the bar. Newton was being called on too often for comfort at this stage, but he came through with flying colours, having to dive at opponents' feet three times in as many minutes to protect his charge. Half time came with the County slightly fortunate to be holding on to their one goal lead, for their play had not been very convincing. Two quick goals in the in the second half put them well on top and they commenced to play a more open brand of football. After six minutes after the restart Browning tried one of his and Gardner coming out, failed to hold it with the result that Ferguson had the easiest of tasks to net. Three minutes later, County increased their lead. After Urquhart had missed by inches, he tried another rocket, which Follon, standing on the goal-line, cleared for a corner, and from this Ogilvie flicked it in to the keeper who again dropped it, this time at Clark's foot, and the inside man picked his spot in the net. Urquhart, the most dangerous raider, was packing dynamite in his right foot, and after working his way through, he unleashed his parting shot, only to have it diverted again. Nairn forwards lacked cohesion, and Fraser, in the centre, was ploughing a lone furrow but to no avail. The home side's approach work was quite good but once they got near the 18 yard line they lost confidence and Newton had very little to do. Again Urquhart saw Gardner save from him at the expense of a corner, and Bremner, taking the kick, lobbed it right under the bar, where Sutherland's head rose higher than the goalkeeper's hands to nod into the net. This was after 33 minutes. This was the end of the scoring, and although the "Wee County" tried hard to reduce the deficit, the Ross defence did not seem unduly worried and cleared their lines effectively. Nairn had only two star men on their side, Tulloch, who never left Ogilvie throughout the game, and Fraser, in the centre, who had some exciting tussles with Patience for the ball and was successful on fifty per cent of the occasions. County's best were Urquhart, who was rather unlucky not to score on a number of occasions, and the half-back line, which stood up to the raids of the Nairn forwards when they did get going. Not Ross County at their best, but nevertheless, good enough to win by this decisive margin.