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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- The goals that brought Celtic's amazing run of 64 unbeaten competitive games (62 League & 2 Glasgow Cup) to and end were scored by Smith (either JR or Mattha) and Willie Culley in the first half.
- The Glasgow Herald newspaper that hadn't a word to say about Celtic the previous week has (for it) an outpouring of narrative that bemoans the fact that Celtic hadn't been beaten earlier.
- The same newspaper gives the war casualty figures as 493 officers and 2,198 men. LINK
- Also reported in the Herald is the award by the French of a Croix de Guerre to Field Marshall, Sir Douglas Haig.
- The Herald also carries a report of a speech by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in which he attacked the call from H G Wells for a Republic made in a letter to the Times. Montagu stated: " Our King and his dynasty were the cornerstone of our Empire which would not hold together more than a few months if England became a Republic."
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Wilson, McStay, Brown, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy , Browning
KILMARNOCK:
Blair, Mitchell, Patrick, Henderson, Goldie, Mackie, Fulton, Smith, Culley, Rutherford, McPhail
Scorers: Smith, Culley
Referee:
Attendance: 18,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald – April 23, 1917
CELTIC BEATEN AT LAST
Kilmarnock accomplished at Parkhead on Saturday what they nearly achieved at home a few weeks ago; they are the first to defeat Celtic in the present League campaign, and thus put an end to a sequence of victories extending from the middle of December, 1915, until the present time. It was fitting that a team renowned for consistency should be defeated by opponents who have been more consistent than any other team when opposing the champions. If Sinclair were slightly at fault in the first game in allowing McMenemy to equalise when but three minutes remained for play, Kilmarnock’s regular custodian made no such mistake in the return engagement. The shooting of the Celtic forwards was not particularly deadly, and it was in leaving his goal to deal with corner kicks almost innumerable that Blair excelled. The winners were somewhat fortunate to score as they did twice in the first half, doubly so to find their opponents miss opportunities much more frequent and less difficult. But the losers had no room for complaint, save on their own incapacity at goal. They were at home, on a perfect pitch, with wind and sun minor and equal handicaps to both teams. The winners goals were scored before the interval, so there was nothing of a snatch victory about Kilmarnock’s successful venture. The mistake made by McNair in passing back to his goalkeeper would not have been fatal had the home forwards shown their usual judgement and taken advantage of much better openings that fell to Smith and Culley. The pity is that the champions’ first defeat was incurred in their last home engagement; a reverse at an earlier stage would have enlivened a competition that has long ceased to attract by reason of its being a competition in name only. 