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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- Page 9 of the Glasgow Herald reports that “early married men” have been told to report for active service by way of posters.LINK
- The Herald also reports desperate fighting at Douaumont and losses for last week of 36 officers and 1,129 men.
- At Arbroath a meeting of the Mens Own Brotherhood attended by 200 were told of The King's promise that as long as the war lasted he would be a total abstainer and would prohibit the use of alcohol in the royal household.
Review
Teams
KILMARNOCK:
Blair, Hamilton, Mitchell, J Goldie, Dickie, Mackie, Armstrong, David Fulton, Culley, Anderson, McPhail
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young,Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorers: Gallacher, McMenemy, McColl
Referee: J. B. Stevenson (Motherwell)
Attendance: 10,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Monday 6th March 1916
A FOOLISH REQUEST
Practically assured of the League Championship, it remains for Celtic to champion the League and prevent that body from making itself ridiculous, if not positively objectionable. This the Parkhead club can do my making assurance doubly sure in the course of the next half-dozen matches on its card, and so obviating the necessity, of Rangers, St Mirren, Dumbarton and other clubs playing on any other day than Saturday or a recognised public holiday. When first place is won it matters not how the others finish or do not finish, and England has given a lead when clubs have been recompensed for fixtures unfulfilled. Had there been no Glasgow Cup competition this season there would have been no congestion of League fixtures, and since Rangers entered the final of the city trophy and profited handsomely thereby they can well afford the to give financial satisfaction to Dumbarton and St Mirren. Had the League recommended them to give to each a sum based on the average gates of the last three seasons we would have had a higher opinion of our legislators. It must have struck the Ibrox executive that they cannot expect to eat their cake and have it still, so probably it will be left to S.F.A. to point out the obvious, or what was at least obvious to everyone outside of League and club officialdom. The proposed Inter-League match is feasible since it will not lead to a further dislocation of the League programme, and its object – to assist a War Relief Fund – ought to commend itself to the English League authorities who have allowed competitive football to degenerate into a series of meaningless district contests. It is to be hoped that the English League eleven will be selected, and the S.F.A. will veto all undated Scottish League fixtures, but it is too much to expect that second thoughts will prevail, and that the League will withdraw an application that should never have been made.
Good weather and increased wages prevent the slump in attendance that in a normal season would have followed upon Celts’ commanding lead. The leaders had an easy task at Kilmarnock.