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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- First-team debutant Joe O'Kane makes his mark just before the interval with a goal to help Celtic's chase of Falkirk's goal scoring record.
- The Glasgow Herald shows Joe as having been signed from Clydebank. LINK
- Celtic proposed that they play a postponed league match againsy Motherwell immediately after their forthcoming game against Raith Rovers. Ayr object to this as they fear that they would lose revenue from the visit of Motherwell whose fans would chose the Celtic game.
- The same newspaper reports that 66 officers and 1,420 men are listed as dead in the last week of the war.
- Again the Herald reports that Sir Robert Baden-Powell visited scouts in Scotland and opened a YMCA institute in Stevenson where he gave a speech to munition workers and told them that the general atmosphere of the troops in France could be described as "shellfire slush and smiles".
- The Lord Provost of Glasgow has received £4,000 for the hospital for limbless soldiers and sailors at Erskine.
- The Clyde Engineer's strike continues.
- Last match for Willie Crone, who scored in this final match for Celtic.
Review
Teams
FALKIRK:
Stewart, Orrock, Donaldson, Harvie, Gibbons, McMillan, Simpson, MacDoanld, Shearer, Malcolm, John Brown
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young,Johnstone, McMaster, Crone, Gallacher, O'Kane, McMenemy, Browning
Scorers: Crone, O'Kane.
Referee: J. B. Stevenson (Motherwell)
Attendance: 8,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Monday 10th April 1916
A VAIN PURSUIT
In winning so handsomely at Falkirk the Celts at the same time falsified all expectations of their losing the championship, and laid low all hopes and fears engendered by their moderate display against Greenock Morton. They made very plain what was always apparent, that the League clubs which favoured extension did so, not in the desire to amass points, but to extract as much financial comfort as possible out of a competition whence only one could hope to emerge with credit. How much better for the honour of the League and Association had they allowed Motherwell and Celtic to carry through the proposal to play two games on Saturday, and vetoed all evening games. At any rate the leaders were so brilliant against Falkirk as to make pursuit as vain as it ought to have been an impossible thing. Their forwards showed marvellous control over the ball, and their defence a similar mastery over Simpson, who nevertheless proved that he still retains the form which caused so many clubs to complete for his signature.