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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- Page 10 of The Glasgow Herald reports that the Amalgamated Society of Engineers met in Glasgow and tabled demands to the government that they should take control of food prices and peg the price of a loaf of bread to 6 pence. LINK
- The same newspaper reports that the body of a man named Robert Bell or Wilson, "belonging to the vagrant class" has been found on the Dumfriesshire hills.
- Again in the Herald it is reported that "America is stirred" by the "Frightfulness" by which the German slave raids are described. The paper on page 8 details that 3,000 Belgians are taken from their homes each week and removed to work as slaves for the Germans.
Review
Teams
RAITH ROVERS:
Brown, Hutchison, Winning, Abbott, Fraser, Ripley, Archibald, Lindsay, Rattray, Wilson, Gibson
Scorer: Rattray
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Wilson , McStay, Brown, McAtee, McMenemy, McColl, Cassidy, Browning
Scorer: Browning, McColl; (3)
Referee: J. M. Dickson (Glasgow)
Attendance: 3,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Dec 4, 1916
The weather on Saturday was of the worst possible description for football, a blend of fog and rain making things most uncomfortable for players and spectators. In this connection it may not be out of place to refer to the arrangement which led to Rangers and Celtic coming to Kirkcaldy on successive Saturdays. An early kick-off means a poor attendance given fairly good weather conditions, and there is little left to the home club after paying the visitors their guarantee when a heavy downpour prevents all but the most enthusiastic from patronising what would have been the two most lucrative matches of the season under another and better arrangement of club fixtures. It is to be hoped that Raith Rovers will fare better next season so far at least as their home fixtures with the two leading Glasgow clubs are concerned.
Celtic like their Ibrox rivals, played a weak team that was strong enough to defeat Raith Rovers without effort, and by the same score, 4-1 (as Rangers the previous week). There was nothing remarkable about the victory apart from McColl’s three goals, and the quality of the Kirkcaldy defence minimised the credit attaching to this feat of the Parkhead centre forward.