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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- Monday's Glasgow Herald reports that 18 year old Bill Ribchester is making his first team debut and that one of the Celtic players will be scarred for life. LINK
- The same newspaper reports from The French Chambers of Commerce meeting in Paris voted that a new Channel Tunnel crossing to England be started immediately.
Review
Teams
QUEEN'S PARK:
Richardson, Thorpe, Ford, Cowan, Barry, Inglis, Aitken, McMillan, McDiarmid, Boyce, Alan Morton
Scorer: Morton
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Wilson , Hamill, McStay, Ribchester, Gallacher, Connolly, McColl, Browning
Scorers: Gallacher, Dodds, McColl
Referee: A. A. Jackson (Glasgow)
Attendance: 18,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
Glasgow Herald, Monday November 13, 1916
AMATEURS’ PLUCKY DISPLAY.
No one expected, for example, that Queen’s Park would be the first to defeat Celtic in the present tournament. At any rate the Hampden players did not seem to have any illusions on that score when they congratulated each other on beating the Parkhead goalkeeper just once. What they probably hoped to do, and what they succeeded in doing, was to make the Champions’ task as difficult as possible. The absence of O’Kane, McMenemy and McAtee was reflected in the haphazard methods of their substitutes, who did fairly well individually without once showing traces of that combination which comes from long association. There was that same lack of cohesion in the Hampden attack, less seen of A. L. Morton and Aitken than usual, and except when the former profited by his opponents’ one mistake there was no getting past McNair and Dodds to allow Shaw to show that he was at least as capable as Richardson, who kept goal splendidly and was most unfortunate to be twice beaten by free kicks. The Celtic introduced a new player to First League football, and Ribchester showed much of that skill which characterised his displays in school football, and also an amount of pluck one would expect from a member of O.T.C. The game was contested on pleasant lines, as all games are between these clubs, so it is more regrettable that a Celtic player should accidentally collide with an opponent and sustain an injury which will cause a permanent facial disfigurement.