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Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches

by David Drummond Bone

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G. Somerville

Mr. Somerville was a very fine all round forward, with a good deal of ability in backing up and middling the ball in front of goal. Mr. Hamilton and he used to make the spectators laugh at the way in which they annoyed the opposing backs by passing the leather to one another in a tantalising way, right in front of the uprights. He was a sturdy player, something of the same make as Mr. David Davidson, of 3rd L.R.V. and latterly Queen’s Park fame, with a nerve of iron and, shall I say, a frame of steel. He played against England in 1886.

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