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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- After Celtic’s 64 game unbeaten run of competative games was brought to an end the previous week the champions get back to winning ways with a nap-hand of goals against Clyde at Shawfield.
- Making his debut and final first team appearance in this match is Alexander Fullerton.
- The Glasgow Herald reports from the USA that nearly 200 Congressmen, including the speaker, Champ Clark have sent a cablegram to Lloyd George stating that all Americans would be deeply stirred towards the British Empire if his government settled the Irish Question in accordance with the Woodrow Wilson terms. LINK
Review
Teams
CLYDE: Shingleton, Cowan, Farrell, Daly, Neave, Forrest, C Watson, G Watson, McGowan, Thomson, Shimmons
CELTIC:
Shaw, Fullarton, Dodds, Wilson, McStay, Brown, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, Browning, McLean
Scorers: McColl; (2), Dodds, Gallacher, McLean
Referee:
Attendance: 16,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald, April 30, 1917
FOURTEEN TIMES CHAMPIONS
The League competition ended on Saturday, when eight matches were played, and Rangers were displaced on the table by Greenock Morton as a result of the failure of the Ibrox team at Dundee, and Morton’s victory over a weakened Aberdeen eleven at Cappielow. As Motherwell, Hibernians, Kilmarnock, and Ayr United had failed the last of their League fixtures prior to Saturday, the action of the League in seeking permission for a couple of evening matches in mid-week proved a lack of foresight in that body. Fortunately, the clubs concerned – Queen’s Park and Rangers, Clyde and Third Lanark – possessed sufficient initiative and resources to surmount the difficulty, and a request that seemed impertinent became unnecessary.
Celtic are League champions for the fourteenth time in 27 seasons, and if their goal record be not so attractive as when in 11914-15 they lost but 14 goals, or in 1915-16, when they claimed 117, the champions hold a clear lead in goals lost and won, and almost succeeded in going through the 38 League match programme without defeat.