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Trivia
- Not unusually another Glasgow team get top billing in the Herald who give prominence to Queen’s Park who are also touring the continent met a team representing Denmark at Copenhagen and were beaten by 5 goals to 1.
- As if the Herald’s paucity of detail were not bad enough they marked Celtic down a goal giving them only a four goal victory.
- The Scotsman reports, Monday 1 June, that a Brigade Demonstration of the Irish National Volunteers took place in Londonderry yesterday. The Volunteers formed in ranks over a mile long marched to the Celtic Park where drilling and speeches took place.
- The Glasgow Herald of 2nd June reports that rival armies are preparing for war against each other and the outgoing Presbyterian Moderator, The Right Rev Dr Macauley, of Portadown, making his valedictory speech in Belfast said that Ulster was an armed camp with the Ulster Volunteer Force drilling and ready to fight to preserve their freedom. He said most of the Ministers he knew were ready, not only to pray for the UVF but to fight alongside them.
Review
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Teams
CELTIC: [Assumed based on previous tour games]
Shaw, McGregor, Dodds, Young, Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
BERLINER FC PREUSSEN:
Referee:
Attendance:
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
- Match Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald, June 2nd 1914, Page 9
“CELTIC, 4; BERLIN PREUSSEN, 0.
The Celtic team now in Germany met Berlin Preussen at Berlin yesterday and defeated them by 4 goals to 0.”
“Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger” (The Berlin Local Indicator) reports on Tuesday, 2 June 1914:
The Scottish football team Celtic beats Prussia 5:0.
As in the match against Hertha showed the Scottish champions showed great superiority against Berlin Prussians.
The Prussians were powerless against the ball control and passing of Celtic.
Berlin Preussen were without Mills and Kruger, but even their presence would have made no difference.
By half-time the Scots scored had scored three goals. One unsaveable shot by the half right after 18 minutes, and another by the left-half 28 minutes before the break.
In the second half Celtic played the superior game and added two more goals by the left-half and center-half, while Prussia missed a few chances towards the end.
(This game was played was on the pitch at Marie Village, Town Hall. Marie village, was then officially still a village, but since 1920 it has been part of Berlin. On the square by the Town Hall where this game was played there now stands the Martin Luther Memorial Church.)
The Celtic Wiki are grateful to Christian Wolter for providing German articles from Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger.
Rare photo of Celtic in action in Berlin in June 1914