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Trivia
- Falkirk FC, had just paid West Ham United a world record £5,000 for England international Sydney Puddefoot a month before this game, but it was a young Tom Glancy, cousin of Celtic’s Lawrence Glancy, signed from Inverkeithing United who scored their only goal.
- The Scottish League went down 3-0 to the English League on the same day. Five Rangers players featured in the Scottish League’s select, which did not include a single Celtic player, despite the fact the Hoops led the highest football league in the country at that time.
- The Glasgow Herald describes a Wild Weekend In Belfast, with shooting and bombing outrages. LINK
- Also in the Herald reports of the lock-out of engineering and shipyard workers by the employers over the refusal of the trades unions to accept reduced conditions for their members.
- The Herald also reports that a gold watch was presented to ex-miner Robert Stewart, World Draughts Champion of Kelty, Fife.
Review
Two quick fire goals as honours end even at Brockville. Celtic now six clear at the top, but rivals Rangers have three games in hand.
Teams
FALKIRK: McGovern, Kerr, Hunter, Hugh McNair, Townsley, William Dougal, John Wood, Glancy, Puddefoot, Edward Kane, Moore.
CELTIC: Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Gilchrist, Cringan, McStay, McAtee, Gallacher, McLean, Cassidy, McFarlane
Referee: J. M. Dickson (Glasgow)
Attendance: 13,000
Goals: Cassidy, Glancy
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
Match report from The Scotsman, 20th March 1922
[…] The game at Brockville Park between Falkirk and Celtic was productive of a stirring encounter, at the end of which the points were shared, each side finding the net once. Falkirk had to perform without the services of Ferguson and Scott, who were representing Scotland in the League international against England. Play from the commencement was of the kennest order, with Falkirk showing to advantage in the opening stages. Wood and Glancy each had excellent but unsuccessful attempts to get the ball past Shaw, while Puddefoot also got near the mark with a long-range effort. The Celtic defence were working at high pressure for about fifteen minutes, the forwards being unable to make appreciable headway against the dour tackling of the home intermediate men. McLean eventually broke through, and the Falkirk goal was then subjected to very severe pressure. Before they were beaten off Cassidy managed to find the net after a corner kick taken by McFarlane. Within two minutes Falkirk had drawn level, Glancy beating Shaw at close quarters. This completed the scoring. The second half was fought out with great eagerness by both sides, but the defences emerged with the honours. Falkirks best were Hunter, Kerr, McNair, Townsley, and Glancy, while for Celtic McNair, Gilchrist, Cringan, Gallacher, and Cassidy were outstanding.
The Glasgow Herald – March 20, 1922
RIVALS RELATIVELY LEVEL
The ordinary League schedule was disturbed on Saturday only to the extent of one game by the Inter-League match, Scotland v. England at Ibrox Park. It will be recalled that Rangers made a special appeal to the League for a postponement of their match with Aberdeen on account of five of their players being chosen to play against the English League – a request that the League felt compelled to accede to. Ten games were fulfilled, but care had been taken to have these staged furth of Glasgow, so that the big representative game might have the city free from counter-attractions. Still, the principal game of the afternoon, Falkirk v Celtic, made strong appeal to numerous enthusiasts in Glasgow, who were more interested in the fortunes of the famous East-End club than in the national rivalry. A large proportion of the 16,000 present at Brockville Park travelled from Glasgow, and they probably witnessed a better game than did the bigger crowd who remained in town. The meeting with Falkirk had all along been viewed as one of the serious tests for Celtic in their championship race with Rangers, and so it proved to be, as Celtic dropped a point. In ordinary circumstances such a result would have been according to popular fancy, as Falkirk divided the points at Celtic Park on December 24; also because the Stirlingshire club beat Rangers at Brockville Park, and so recently as three weeks ago took a point out of their engagement at Ibrox Park. The choice however of Ferguson (goal) and Scott (back) for the representative game weakened the provincial club, and a victory for Celtic was generally looked for. The leaders scored first and throughout had probably the better scoring chances, but Falkirk secured the equaliser, and played so resolutely in defence and so skilfully in attack as to quite merit the share of the honours. The loss of a point means that Celtic and Rangers stand relatively equal, Celtic having 56 points from 36 games and Rangers 50 points from 33. Celtic’s remaining six games are against Heart of Midlothian, Queen’s Park, Albion Rovers, and Morton – all away, and Dundee and Partick Thistle at Celtic Park, a series of engagements that will tax them fully, but that scarcely offer so formidable a proposition as Rangers have still to face, viz., nine League games and two or possibly more Scottish Cup-ties.