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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- Following their defeat at Tynecastle the previous week (their third in four matches) the Celtic fans must have been worried that their favourites might be continuing their run of bad results, but this win was the start of a record-breaking undefeated run.
- The Scotsman, Thursday 18th November reports that the Glasgow rent strikers have won a victory in the Small Debt Court when, after the intervention of the Minister of Munitions the homeowners withdrew their rent increase action against 18 tennants. A large crowd of the Glasgow Rent Strike supporters who had gathered at the court greeted the news with cheering.
- Page 13 of The Glasgow Herald gives the army and navy casualty figures as 47 officers and 1734 men dead in the last week.
- Page 9 of The Glasgow Herald reports that John Redmond, accompanied by his son, William, a lieutenant in the Dublin Fusiliers, visited the troops at the front and made a series of speeches praising their efforts and passing on the gratitude of the Irish people. LINK
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, McGregor, Dodds, Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorers: McColl, O.G.(From Celtic FC site)
KILMARNOCK:
Tom Blair, Hamilton, Mitchell, Shortt, Fulton, Mackie, Armour, Anderson, Willie Culley, Armstrong, McKellar
info needed: Archibald S. Mackie,
Referee: A Edwards (Glasgow)
Attendance:4,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman, Monday, 22nd November, 1915
The Celtic met Kilmarnock at Glasgow before 2,000 spectators. From the start the Celtic did pretty much as they liked, and Kilmarnock were rarely dangerous. Dodds opened the scoring for the Celtic. The second half as a repetition of the first, Shaw the Celtic custodian, acted the part of spectator. McColl scored a second goal for the Celtic. Blair was the outstanding man in a dull game, the Kilmarnock goalkeeper giving a great display. The Celtic’s forwards played good football, but the opposing five were seldom in the game.
Glasgow Herald, Mon, 22 Nov, 1915
TAKING ADVANTAGE
Neither Celtic nor Hearts had any difficulty in defeating Kilmarnock and Queen’s Park respectively, and in each case the result flattered the losers. The Parkhead and Tynecastle forwards had just that skill which made difference to the conditions underfoot and if the Eastern club claimed three goals as against two for the East End club it was the superlative goalkeeping of Blair that prevented Celtic still further improving their goal average.