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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- Lining up against Celtic the Jags have former Everton championship-winning captain, army Lieutenant Jimmy Galt, who was absent from the team that drew with Celtic a month ago, but to no avail as goals from 'Sniper' Jim McColl and Browning extend Celtic's long unbeaten run to 45 games.
- Page 8 of The Glasgow Herald, 25 December 1916 carries a notice of clarification about the "debadging" of munitions workers that would render them available for conscription. LINK
- The same newspaper reports that British aircraft have dropped one ton of bombs on the Turkish advance base and shipping on the Tigris at Baghaliah, Mesopotamia and a similar amount was dropped on Auja & Beersheba, Palestine.
- Again in the Herald is news that the Aurora under the command of Captain Davis and with Sir Earnest Shackleton on board has sailed from Port Chalmers for the Ross Sea to rescue the remaining members of the Antarctic expedition trapped there.
- In the Letters to the Editor section of the Herald is the following: This reminds me of the little boy who asked for a pennyworth of bashed pears. When told there were none he replied: "If ye hae nane bashed, bash them"
Review
Teams
PARTICK THISTLE:
Neil, Adams, Bulloch, Durnin, Galt, McMullan, Branscombe, McTavish, Harris, Leitch, Bowie
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Wilson, McStay, Brown, McAtee,McMenemy, McColl, Cassidy, Browning
Scorers: McColl, Browning
Referee: J. Lyons (Hamilton)
Attendance: 18,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
Glasgow Herald, 25 December 1916
Celtic won so easily at Firhill that it is to be hoped that some of the other clubs will develop some unexpected form, otherwise a five points lead in midseason will mean a tame finish to what has hitherto been a most interesting competition.
A DISAPPOINTMENT
An attendance of 16,000 at Firhill proved that the Partick Thistle officials and players were not alone in thinking that the ground team would at last meet with its first success in the competition against the present champions. The absence of Gallagher and the accession of Lieutenant J. H. Galt would disturb the balance indicated by the recent goalless draw at Parkhead. But McMenemy played finely, and the recruits who formed the half-back line lost nothing when bearing comparison with their predecessors, and in the result Thistle were easily vanquished.