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Trivia
- Celtic slump to a defeat by the team from Airdrie for the first time in twelve years.
- In Monday's Glasgow Herald Madame Clara Butt who is appearing in Glasgow advertises her latest release from Columbia records featuring wartime favourites "Abide with Me" and "Have you news of my boy Jack?"
- The Principal of Edinburgh University issues a stern rebuke to students who caused rowdy scenes at the McEwan Hall during the voting for a new rector. The only candidate being Admiral Sir David Beattie.
- The weeks war casualties are given as 118 Officers and 3,452 Men.
- The Herald reports news from Switzerland of papers showing Roger Casement's plans for invading Ireland. LINK
Review
Teams
AIRDRIEONIANS:
Bernard, McDonald, Watson, Knox, Kennedy, Hart, Rankin, Anderson, Yarnell, Donaldson, Paterson
Scorers: Anderson, Kennedy
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, McMaster, Cringan, Brown, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl ,Jackson, Browning
Referee:
Attendance: 12,000
Articles
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Pictures
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald, 5 Nov, 1917
AFTER MANY DAYS.
With Airdrieonians serving up the best display of the season and Celtic lapsing into the form which accounted for their dismissal from the City Cup recently, there could be but one ending to the game at Broomfield, a decisive victory for the better team. The provincials owed it to their following to erase memories of the Tynecastle defeat, and no better medicine could possibly offer itself than a meeting with Celtic. For apart from the honours gained by the latter club against all comers there was a series of engagements between Celtic and Airdrieonians extending well over a decade that had gone almost entirely in the champions’ favour; an occasional draw at long intervals was the only relief to an Airdrieonian defeat for twelve seasons on end. There was thus an incentive to both teams to maintain or destroy a sequence, and as already stated, Airdrieonians were alert and responsive, Celtic indifferent, dull and commonplace. The Airdrie forwards showed cleverness and cohesion only rarely evidenced on the other side, and their defence exercised a mastery over the opposition that was reflected only in the characteristically stolid tactics of McNair.