Ross County Database

DateSaturday, 13 March 1948
CompetitionHighland League
Fixture/ScoreHuntly 3:2 Ross County
VenueChristie Park
Referee
Ross County
ManagerThe Management Committee
Starting 111: Fred Newton, 2: K Chisholm, 3: Polson Morrison, 4: James MacDonald, 5: George Ross, 6: George Sutherland, 7: D Jack, 8: ? Munro, 9: Charles (Chic) Ogilvie 2, 10: Alick Ferguson, 11: Tommy Urquhart
Bench
Attendance
Match ReportReport from the Ross-shire Journal.

Huntly 3 Ross County 2

Cameron, Findlay and Miller could not turn out for the County on Saturday, and it was a strange team that travelled to Huntly. Here it is:—Newton; Chisholm and P. Morrison; J. Macdonald, Ross and Sutherland; D. Jack, Munro, Ogilvie, Ferguson and Urquhart. Yet they gave a good account of themselves. They fully deserved to share the points, but a goal by Park—the best of the day—gave Huntly victory in the last moments of the game.
Success with the coin enabled Ross County to utilise the services of the wind, and within a couple of minutes they had opened the scoring, Ogilvie with his head placing the ball where the Huntly custodian could not reach it. Huntly replied strongly, and in an attack in the goalmouth, made an appeal for a penalty. The referee ruled otherwise. Ferguson was a great inspiration to the County forwards and Ogilvie was ever on the alert. The homesters, however, drew level through Robertson, who beat Newton with a good shot. Huntly continued to press, and only poor shooting in the goal area kept them from going ahead. Meantime Ross struggled hard to rally the County, who had unaccountably fallen away. Eventually he succeeded in enabling his men to regain confidence and they let Huntly know it. Ogilvie, Munro and Jack had good tries at goal, but half-time arrived with the score all even.
As in the opening stages, the game had scarcely been resumed, when Ogilvie put his team ahead by neatly flicking a ball past Crawford. Again Robertson did the needful and equalised matters. For a long time the exchanges were fairly even, and everything pointed to a draw, when Park registered the winning goal in the last minute.
Huntly are the visitors at Dingwall tomorrow (Saturday), when it is anticipated that the County will return the compliment to the Aberdeenshire team.