Were gold medals ever handed out to Currie Cup final winners?

“I can only remember some of the players involved.

“Do you have the line-ups?”

With the expert help of DCT Archives’ Gary Thomas, match reports were found.

We couldn’t locate the team line-ups for the first game, but the replay line-ups were as follows:

Carnoustie – Kidd; Will,

Riddle; McLardy, Rollo, Stephen; McLelland, Edmonds, Martin, McDonald, Smith. Subs – Donnelly, Docherty.

Arbroath Vics –

Phillips; Kettles, B Reid; A Reid, Petrie, McCluskey; Munro, Suttie, Smith, Nicoll, Smythe.

As Brian said, he scored all Vics’ goals over the two games, with Graeme Smith and

Davie Martin netting for the Gowfers in the first game, and Martin and Davie Edmonds getting the goals in the winning replay.

Brian continued: “Our manager was Bob Wilson, who played for Aberdeen, Norwich and Accrington Stanley.

“I’m sure Bob lives in Broughty Ferry.

“If he reads this, and wants to get in touch, you can pass on my number.”

Records also show that Arbroath Vics won it the following season, while Carnoustie tasted more success in this competition that decade in 197576 and 1977-78.

The Currie Cup, first played for in 1910, was a Perthshire Junior FA cup competition only until reorganisation in 1968, when the association amalgamated with Dundee and Angus to form Tayside Junior FA.

It was last played for in 2009, when the winners were then, ironically, Carnoustie Panmure.

Dennis Docherty, who played in the game featured in this story, knocked the “gold medal’ story on its head.

He said: “I played in six Currie Cup finals, winning three. Certainly the medals I received were not made of gold.

“It may, however, have been the case when the competition first started many decades back.”

Can any reader shed any light on the “gold medal” query?