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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- With scoring ace Gracie missing through illness Hearts drew at Pitoddrie and as a result Celtic are now lying in second place, on 58 points, trailing the Edinburgh side, who are on 61 points, but the bhoys have two games in hand.
- In the English First Division the match between Middlesborugh and Oldham was abandoned by the referee when Billy Cook the Oldham left back refused to leave the field after being ordered off, despite the pleas of his captain.
- The Glasgow Herald announces that Rangers have signed inside forward, Andrew Cunningham, from Kilmarnock for a Scottish record transfer fee.
- The Glasgow Herald has an article entitled “Tears in Budapest” from their correspondent in Hungary which details the news of the fall of the garrison under seige at Przemysl and the huge number of casualties including 10,000 Austro-Hungarian deaths on the day before the surrender. It is tragic to think that many of these soldiers would have watched Celtic play Ferencvaros in Budapest only a year earlier from the windows of their barracks which overlooked the Anvil Road football pitch.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young, Johnstone ,McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning.
Scorers: Browning, McColl, McMenemy
AIRDRIEONIANS:
James Brown, Mackie, Daniel Rafferty, James Miller, Arthur Murphy, Robert Williams, Paton, Alex Thomson, Reid, Donaldson, Walter Paterson
Referee: A. A. Jackson (Glasgow)
Attendance: 10,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman, Monday, 5th March, 1915
In the end the Celtic prevailed somewhat easily over the Airdrieonians at Parkhead. A crowd of some 8,000 witnessed a good first half, during which time the Celtic counted twice through McColl and Browning. Repeatedly the Airdrie side was dangerous, but they could not break through the Celtic’s sturdy defence. Later the game developed into more or less pressure from the Celts, who found the net again through McMenemy.
Glasgow Herald, Monday 5th April, 1915
Ten minutes after the start Celtic secured the lead, and from that period their supremacy, which was most pronounced in the latter stages, was never seriously threatened. Only Brown, Mackie and Rafferty on the visitors’ side compared favourably with the winners, who all gave an excellent display.