 Angus Buchanan scored the try (the first in international rugby), and William Cross converted it.In a return match at the Kennington Oval, London, in 1872, England were the winners.In December 1870, following a series of England v. Scotland eleven-a-side football matches played in London (all of which were won by England), a group of Scots players issued a letter of challenge in The Scotsman and in Bell's Life in London, to play an England XX at the carrying game.