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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- Graham opens the scoring for Hearts in 5 minutes and McAtee equalises in 54 minutes in a thrilling contest, which keeps Hearts lead at the top at 4 points.
- The Glasgow Herald of Monday February 1 carries a photograph of Private G. Wilson, HLI, the "paper-boy hero" who is now hospitalised in Springburn after having won a VC.
- Also in theHerald is an account of British bayonettes and fists being used in Givenchy village. The report states: "A story is told of one man who broke into a house held by eight Germans, bayonetted four, and captured the rest while he continued to suck at a clay pipe." The bullish tone is continued in the next column which has the headline "Germans easily beaten back" at Cuinchy west of La Bassee.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young, Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, Quinn, McMenemy, Browning
Scorer: McAtee
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN:
Archie Boyd, Paddy Crossan, Duncan Currie, Alfie Briggs, Walter Scott, Peter Nellies, Jimmy Low, Harry Wattie, Tom Gracie, Harry Graham, Willie Wilson
Scorer: Graham
Referee: A. Edwards, (Glasgow)
Attendance: 45,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman, Monday Feb 1, 1914
HEARTS AND CELTIC DIVIDE THE POINTS
NEARLY 50,000 PEOPLE AT THE MATCH
The keenly-anticipated return League contest between the Heart of Midlothian and the Celtic took place on Saturday in Glasgow, and the result was a draw. Consequently, the clubs remain as they were in the competition for the Championship.
Both have eleven matches still to play, and the Hearts are four points to the good. That is a substantial advantage, but they have a more difficult road to traverse than their rivals before the flag is safely won. Had they been victorious on Saturday they would have been tolerably secure with a lead of six points, but the Hearts had rather less of the game than the Celts, and, everything considered, they did well to draw.
The Celtic were strong in defence, but very weak near their opponents goal.
For the Hearts the defence was also the better part of the team, the half-backs in particular playing grandly. The forwards were poor, but when they got to goal, which was comparatively seldom, they were a more dangerous lot than the Celtic five, and though play was mostly in the Hearts’ ground, the Celtic goalkeeper had at least as much work to do as the Hearts’ man.
It was a great and exciting struggle that was seen. If the Hearts were fighting mostly with their backs to the wall, and after the Celtic had equalised early in the second half generally looked more like losers than winners, they lasted the game better, and the situation was eased for them before the finish, by which time the play of the Celtic had lost much of its sting.
When the circumstances of the time are taken into consideration it was a remarkable state of affairs that close on 50,000 people should have been present at the match, and from start to finish their interest was sustained to the highest pitch.
The Glasgow Herald, Monday 1st Feb, 1915
Heart of Midlothian were fortunate in effecting a draw. From the outset until the closing minutes Celtic were the aggressors and but for pronounced weakness at goal they might have won. An early goal by Graham gave the visitors the lead in the first half but eight minutes after resuming Celtic equalised through McAtee.