Hibernian v Services Select XI 2-2 (Charity match: May 5, 1945)

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May 5, 1945
Match: Charity match for the Sailors’, Soldiers and Airmen’s Family Association, at Easter Road.
Hibernian – Services Select XI 2-2 (0-1).
Attendance: 18,165; gate receipts: £1,500.
Referee: Mr. A.A. Baker (RAF).
Hibernian (2-3-5): Mitchell Downie, Jock Govan, Alex Hall, Willie Finnigan, Robert Baxter, Samuel Kean, Gordon Smith, Charles McMullan, Archie Kelly (Heart of Midlothian), Alex McCrae (Heart of Midlothian), Jimmy Caskie.
Scottish Services (2-3-5): Robert Brown (Queen’s Park), Robert Ancell (Dundee), Alex Dyer (Aberdeen), Matt Busby (Liverpool), Jack Snape (Coventry City), Archie Macaulay (West Ham United), John Oakes (Queen of the South), Thomas Kiernan (Albion Rovers), James Inglis (Falkirk), Andrew Black (Heart of Midlothian), Albert Juliussen (Huddersfield Town).
The goals: 0-1 Inglis (27 min.), 1-1 McCrae (48 min.), 1-2 Juliussen (61 min.), 2-2 Kelly (89 min.).

Matt Busby, Liverpool F.C.
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