Match Pictures | Matches: 1913 – 1914 | 1913 Pics – 1914 Pics
Trivia
- Celtic make it a league double over Rangers with an emphatic win at Parkhead which effectively ends their city rivals hopes for the Championships and makes the Bhoys clear favourites for the title, with Hearts the only team that can catch them.
Review
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Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young, Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorers: Browning (2), Young and McMenemy
RANGERS:
John Hempsey, George Ormond, John C. Fulton, Jimmy Gordon, James Logan, Joe Hendry, Adam “Scott” Duncan, James Bowie, Willie Reid, Alex Bennett, “Doc” Jimmy Paterson
Referee:
Venue: Celtic Park
Attendance: 75,000
Articles
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Friday, 2nd January 1914
The attendance at Parkhead was the most pleasing feature of a game where an accident to one player had injurious effect on the tempers of some of his comrades and upon the play of the losing team as a whole.
Play for the first 15 minutes was decidedly scrappy and uninteresting, and so long as the teams were at full strength Rangers were the more dangerous side, though none too impressive at that.
Even after Hendry’s departure the visitors showed a bold front, and Shaw was well tested with shots from Reid and Gordon. Young’s goal proved the turning point, simply as it was obtained, and from that point the home forwards settled down to a game which latterly wore down the Ibrox defence.
McMenemy scored a second goal after a magnificent run, in the course of which he outwitted five opponents, and Browning added two more with splendid oblique drives.
Occasionally the losers made headway in the second half and Shaw had to exert himself to beat out a header from Logan and a surprise shot from Reid.
Near the end, however, the home forwards practically did as they pleased, and a more competent centre than Owers would have scored two more goals at least.
Though Celtic were the better all-round team and did quite two-thirds of the attacking their finishing was not in keeping with their outfield play. Shaw had much more work than Hempsey, and his saving early in the game did much to inspire the other members of the winning team.
As the game was played Celtic were the better side, and their victory was as decisive as the score indicates, so much so that they would almost certainly have won had their opponents been at full strength.
