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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- The Glasgow Herald report maintains that had Coleman and Wylie been available Aberdeen may have won.
- On page 15 of the Glasgow Herald, under the headline: "AN UNFRIENDLY ACT", Rangers are roundly criticised in the Glasgow Herald for beating Queen's Park 6-0 at Hampden.
- With conscription looking likely a headline "IRISH EMIGRANTS AFRAID OF COMPULSORY SERVICE" tells of hundreds of Irish men who had booked passage to America being harrassed by shipping company representatives and recruiting officers in Glasgow and Liverpool. Some were arrested for technical breaches of the law and Cunard have given instructions to their booking agents that no Irishmen of service age be allowed to travel to the USA. LINK
- 81 Officers and 6,790 men have lost their lives at the front in the last week.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young, Johnstone ,McMaster, Crone, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorers: McColl; (2), Gallacher
ABERDEEN:
Anderson, Chatwin, Hume, Private Wright, Brewster, McLachlan, Private Grant, Archibald, Main, Cail, Wylie
Scorer: Main
Referee: J. R. Stevenson (Motherwell)
Attendance: 7,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman, Monday 08 November 1915
About 5,000 spectators saw the Celtic gain an easy victory over Aberdeen in Glasgow. The general run of play was favourable to the Celtic, but Aberdeen scored first through Main. The Celtic pressed to the interval, but they were unable to get the better of Aberdeen’s strong defence.
In the second half the visitors were rarely over midfield. McColl equalised, Gallagher scored a second goal, and that was followed by another from McColl. The feature of the game was the grand goalkeeping by Anderson of Aberdeen.
The Glasgow Herald Monday, November 8, 1915
ALMOST A THIRD
In a season remarkable for the triple success of forwards, rather erroneously called the “hat trick” it would not have been surprising had Celtic been defeated for the third week in succession. Aberdeen found the Parkhead team still out of sorts and strangers to fortune, and had in Anderson a goalkeeper who promised to be as unbeatable as Hillcoat. The Celts pressed as persistently and as unsuccessfully as usual; Aberdeen had a breakaway and a goal. This was the situation until within a few minutes of the finish. McColl then equalised, and lost no time in helping Gallagher to another and himself to a third. Aberdeen were well beaten in goals in the end as they were on play all through, yet they might not have surrendered their easily acquired lead so readily had Coleman and Wylie, their stalwarts in defence, been available.