 The club would form the backbone of the Scotland national team throughout the 1870s and well into the 1880s.The tactic of combination was certainly successful in combating the superior weight and strength of the opposing players.In the game against Wanderers, the "Field" magazine wrote of Queen's Park,

The "Herald", in the same game noted that,

In the first official international match, the first specific reference to a collective passing culture is recorded within the history of Association football.