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Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches

by David Drummond Bone

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Downie (3rd L.R.V.)

Mr. Downie deserves credit for the manner in which he has kept goal for the “warriors” during the past two seasons, when his club played and defeated some of the best in Scotland and England. In this event he had terrible work to perform, and got through it with much credit. So far as I can remember—and it is, indeed, no stretch of imagination—the goal got by Mr. M’Callum could not have been saved by any keeper, as it came out of a scrimmage from the Celtic man’s foot like a rocket. Mr. Downie is a very neat kicker-out in front, and shows fine judgment with his hands in clearing the ball away from a crowd of opposing forwards.

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