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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- Trailing by three goals after 30 minutes Queen's held out till half time and staged a two goal revival in the second half and came close to drawing the match.
- Page 7 of The Glasgow Herald reports that the war in Persia is going well with our troops there capturing the village of Hamadan, an important link in the trade route between Bagdad and Persia. LINK
- Page 5 of the same newspaper carries a piece by Bernard Shaw who had observed that the French soldier never cleans his clothes, gun or horses, but is said to be never clean but always ready, which hints that the Englishman is always clean but never ready.
- Again in the Herald it is reported that the Controller of Food has banned night time working for bakers in Glasgow and introduced day working with a restriction on selling bread until it has laid for 12 hours.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Wilson, McStay, Brown, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy , Browning
Scorers: McMenemy, McColl, Browning
QUEEN'S PARK:
J. Richardson, P. Thorpe, J. Neilson, J. Paterson, J. G. Barry, A. Ford, W. J. Aitken, J. Cowan, R. F. McDiarmid, D. Templeton, Alan Morton
Scorers: McDiarmid, (2)
Referee: M. Humphrey (Greenock)
Attendance: 16,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald, 3 March 1917
It did not seem possible, for example that the placed clubs could be made to surrender points to the trio at the other extreme of the League table, and, without seeking to disparage the displays of Queen’s Park and Aberdeen, it has to be admitted that they owed much to their opponents for taking part in close finishes from a scoring point of view. Though holding and apparently commanding lead at the interval, Celtic came much nearer than Rangers to losing a point, because the Queen’s Park eleven of to-day is imbued with the traditional amateur spirit, which seeks little of ….? and is never seen to such advantage as when attempting to reduce a handicap imposed by a more skilful and resourceful professional combination. There is merit in the defence which holds its own after a disastrous beginning, and one cannot speak too highly of forwards who come so near to scoring three times at Parkhead, and, failing in that, still accomplish a feat, which has so far this season been beyond the reach of those professional clubs which have tackled the leaders on their own ground.