Date	Saturday, 19 February 1949
Competition	North of Scotland Cup
Fixture/Score	Lossiemouth 0:0 Ross County
Venue	Grant Park
Referee
Ross County
Manager	The Management Committee
Starting 11	1: Fred Newton, 2: Jimmy Farmer, 3: Fred Nimmo, 4: James MacDonald, 5: Finlay Browning, 6: George Sutherland, 7: Tommy Urquhart, 8: Jocky (SNR) Clark, 9: George Lyall, 10: Charles (Chic) Ogilvie, 11: John (Johnny) Bremner
Bench
Attendance
Match Report	Report from the Ross-shire Journal. Lossiemouth 0 Ross County 0 Playing before a poor crowd, at Grant Park, Lossiemouth, Ross County earned the right to replay this cup-tie and, indeed, with a little steadiness in front of goal would have advanced to the semi-final at the first time of asking. Kellas won the toss and County were set to face a stiffish breeze. First excitement was at the Ross goalmouth, when Nimmo misjudged a swerving ball which glanced from his head for Newton to run out and clear, from Campbell. Lossie's naval winger, Alexander, showed a great turn of speed to outstrip the visiting defence, but lifted the ball over the bar when right through. After this initial spell of pressure, Lossiemouth were forced on the defensive, and Bremner crossed into the centre, where Lowden dropped the ball but recovered sufficiently to effect a clearance. A combined movement on the right wing let Clark through, but his parting shot over the advancing goalkeeper's head also cleared the cross-bar. Urquhart, on his return to the side, was leading Mackenzie a merry dance, and he easily beat three men and bore down on the goal, but out came Kellas's leg and Tommy went over. The subsequent claim for a penalty - as it should have been - was over-ruled by the referee. County were definitely forcing the pace and the halves were getting a grip on the game. In tackling Sutherland, Campbell fell awkwardly and was carried off, apparently in great pain, but resumed ten minutes later. Ogilvie was putting in a tremendous amount of work at inside left, and from one of his passes Bremner ran through to be unceremoniously bundled off the ball by Kellas again in the penalty-box, but again referee Harvey waved play on. A long clearance from Farmer and a neat back-header by Lyall had Lossie worried, but the ball dropped over and a minute later the centre had the chance of the match to-date, when he only half-headed a perfect Urquhart cross harmlessly over the bar when well-placed. Another sparkling run by Urquhart and a centre which Lowden misjudged, to allow Bremner to collect at the post. The left winger was so surprised that he tamely kicked over the bye-line. With wind advantage in the second spell, County were soon on the attack and a rocket shot from Sutherland skimmed the upright. The Lossiemouth defence, with Kellas outstanding, were sticking to their task magnificently and preventing Lowden from being seriously troubled. Gordon ran the whole length of the field to force a corner, then was back in his goal area to take the ball from Bremner from the clearance. Another chance fell to the County and again from the right, where Urquhart crossed to Lyall's head, but the centre's effort went over. A quick move up the centre and Lyall placed wide of Lowden's right hand into the net, but the verdict was offside. It looked as if the first goal would settle the issue, and although County were doing the bulk of the attacking, it was Lossie who nearly scored. A break-away down the middle and Paterson seized the ball to fire in a hard ground shot, which appeared to catch Newton in two minds, for he first went to pick it up then finally pushed out his foot and the ball spooned away narrowly over the oncoming centre-forward's| head. In the last ten minutes it was one-way traffic, but despite this, Lowden only had to make one outstanding save and that from Sutherland. In a much improved County side, Browning was outstanding in a resolute defence, whilst of the forwards, Ogilvie and Urquhart took the eye. Lossiemouth can thank their defence for saving the to game, especially centre-half Kellas, whose anticipation and clearances with head and foot were a feature of a good fast game.