The Sheffield amateur Charles Clegg (later Sir Charles Clegg, President of the Football Association), who played alongside him in the first England-Scotland international, remarked in later years that none of the southern amateurs in the side would speak to him.
Charles Clegg, an amateur from Sheffield and future President of the Football Association, who had played with him in the inaugural England-Scotland international, claimed in his later years that no other southern amateurs conversed with him during the match.