And when you are done looking at this site for the Scots input on football world-wide, here are two more. 

For those who literally want to trace on the ground the local development of Scots and Scottish football in our own and other countries there is the newly available and ever-expanding site of:

The Scots Football Historians' Group


And on Scottish sports history in general but inevitably including fitba', see Andy Mitchell's inestimable:

Scottish Sport History   





Johnston, White & Baird

On 15th September 1899 a football game took place on La Sabana, still today the main park in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica between a team of Costa Rican-born players, including a Cox and a Chamberlain and a squad of "foreigners", who clearly, from the flag in the back-ground, identified as British, although there was a Swiss amongst them. In fact we have two "foreign" elevens. The first was comprised of the captain, R. Johnston, C. White, G. Riotte, the Swiss, J. Fenton, Harbottle, R. Baird, E. Jenkins, J. Philips, T. Richards, perhaps three Welshman, B. Balrein and D.White, with the reserves Dr. H. Farmer and W. Desborough and the referee, Dr. H. Pirie.

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