The meeting on the 2nd of February at the Wynnstay Arms in Wrexham was a quick affair arranged at short notice with (according to FAW Council member George Lerry writing in 1924) only four of the newly founded Cambrian Football Association committee members in attendance: Llewelyn Kenrick, Edward Evans, Richard Mills and Arthur Davies.
The name Cambrian Football Association had also seemingly been dropped, mere days after its introduction, possibly in an attempt to better match the only other two footballing associations in existence at the time, the Football Association, and the Scottish Football Association. Atop the minutes of this meeting Kenrick had written a new name, the Football Association of Wales, a name that would stand for over 150 years.
The reason for needing another meeting only a week after their first was that a communication had been received by Kenrick, a challenge by the Scottish Football Association to play them in a game of football on the 25th of March 1876. The only issue…they wanted it played in Glasgow! Only one item was therefore on the agenda on the 2nd February:
“We propose that the challenge sent by Scotland to the Hon. Secretary to play a game under Association rules, at Glasgow on March 25, 1876 be accepted.”
All four attended agreed and the motion was passed. A letter was quickly drafted and sent to the editors of the Field and Bell’s Life to announce the match and details of the upcoming trial matches. It also called for “gentleman desirous of playing in this match to write to the Hon. Secretary of the FAW in Ruabon”, Llewelyn Kenrick basically!
They had seven weeks to create a team from scratch.