| Nottingham Forest | Sunderland | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | William Brown | GK | Ned Doig | ||
| RB | Archie Ritchie | RB | Tom Porteous | ||
| LB | Adam Scott | LB | Robert Smellie | ||
| RH | William 'Tich' Smith | RH | Hughie Wilson | ||
| CH | John MacPherson | CH | John Auld | ||
| LH | Peter McCracken | LH | Will Gibson | ||
| OR | Willie Mason | OR | James Gillespie | ||
| IR | Arthur Shaw | IR | John Harvey | ||
| CF | Sandy Higgins | CF | Johnny Campbell | ||
| IL | Horace Pike | IL | Davy Hannah | ||
| OL | Tom McInnes | OL | Jimmy Hannah | ||
| Manager | Manager | ||||
| Harry Radford | Tom Watson | ||||