Date	Saturday, 18 September 1937
Competition	Highland League
Fixture/Score	Ross County 6:2 Huntly
Venue	Victoria Park
Referee	Mr Tom Maclean
Ross County
Manager	The Management Committee
Starting 11	1: R MacNeil, 2: Roddie Munro, 3: A Burnett, 4: J.G MacKay, 5: Ackie Urquhart, 6: Roddie Garrow, 7: J.A MacKay, 8: James (Mollie) Ross, 9: Ernest Gowl 5, 10: L Calder, 11: W Patterson 1
Bench
Attendance
Match Report	Report from the Ross-shire Journal. Ross County 6 Huntly 2 For the first twenty minutes this was an excellent game. Huntly opened out the play cleverly, the forwards and backs showing fine combination. For a time they stormed the County halves and backs, who, however, fought back pluckily. It was Paterson, however, who got the first scoring chance, when Jas. Ross gave him a perfect pass. His parting effort was bad. Cruickshanks was the outstanding man in the Huntly front rank. He had many a tussle with Munro. He did not always come off best but when he did his crosses were always dangerous. It was from one of these, after 15 minutes play, that resulted in Huntly opening their account, Grant connecting with his head and beating Macneil. This reverse appeared to stimulate Ross County. They gradually improved. Urquhart had a great shot from the centre of the field, which Gordon was lucky to tip over the bar. At the other end Macneil brought off a great save when he stopped what looked almost a certain counter from Grant. Immediately after Paterson brought out Gordon’s ability. It was a great shot which the goalkeeper got his fingers to, turning the ball round the post. Both teams were now on their mettle. There was a purposefulness about their play which was inspiring. Ross County were doing wonders on the right wing. It was from this wing that the equaliser came. J. A. Mackay chased the ball to the line and crossed to the goalmouth. With a first time drive, while the ball was in the air, Gowl banged it home—a great goal. Huntly were still superior in the open but the homesters were much more dangerous in front of goal. This was abundantly proved after 35 minutes’ when the County scored three within two minutes. They were both picture goals and they were scored in exactly the same way—a run up by J. A. Mackay, a cross shot to Gowl, and the ball was in the net. Gordon tipped the first one, but could not stop its progress. The second he never saw. Paterson had several glaring misses, which, however, were all forgotten when he shot a beautiful goal from 25 yards through a crowd of players. The second half was not nearly so interesting. Huntly fell away; they did not seem to put their heart in their work and rather appeared to accept the inevitable. On the other hand the County forwards ran rampant. They simply overwhelmed the Huntly defenders, who got too much to do. At one point the Huntly goal underwent a fierce bombardment. How it survived is a miracle. The side posts, the crossbar, an unintentional leg, all came into the defence. Ultimately the siege was raised, but not for long. Just as the final whistle blew, Grant beat Macneil when he simultaneously trapped and shot a cross from Anton. On their first half display, Huntly scarcely deserved such a severe defeat. There was little to criticise in the play of the County. On their display few teams in the League could have held them on Saturday. Ross and Mackay had a great time in the second half, and if the left wing was not so showy, it was nevertheless effective. Gowl has a great gift of knowing the exact place to be to receive balls in the goalmouth. Urquhart had not too much to do, but he was calm and collected throughout. He gave centre-forward Grant very little rope. Both backs did well under pressure and Macneil was very safe. Huntly are a clever team. The defence stood up to fierce attacks manfully, but they could not do the impossible. Gordon had no chance with any of the goals. The halves were overworked. Cruickshanks was the best of a clever set of forwards, who had little or no lunk.