1917-11-24: Celtic 2-0 Hibernian, League

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Trivia

  • According to the Glasgow Herald of Monday Nov 26 on a day of gale-force winds, "listless forward play" accounted for Hibs' defeat. LINK
  • The weeks war casualty figures published in the Herald are 146 Officers and 5,956 Men.
  • Herald also reports a 2 year old boy living at 13 Henrietta Place, Off Gallowgate was attacked by a large rat while sleeping in his bed. The boy, James Leith was bleeding profusely from bites to head, cheek and hand. Police killed the rat.
  • Page 10 of the Herald carries a report on the affairs of the Anglo Persian Oil Co. which has recently started pumping oil though Persian tribesmen have cut the pipeline causing damage/loss estimated at £402,387.
  • The anti-war campaigner and Irish Republican sympathiser Jeremiah O'Leary has been arrested in New York also arrested there was Thomas O'Callaghan who is charged with the murder of two policemen during a Sinn Fein revolt in Ireland.

Review

Teams

CELTIC:

Shaw, McNair, McGregor, Dodds, Cringan, Brown, McAtee, Gallacher, McLean, McMenemy, Browning
Scorers:
McLean, Dodds

HIBERNIAN:

McManus, Borthwick, Dornan, Kerr, Gordon, Smith, Kilpatrick, Meaney, Miller, Moir, McCandless

Referee:
Attendance: 7,000

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