1928-10-06: Celtic 2-0 Queen’s Park, Glasgow Cup Final

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Trivia

  • The Pathe News video of this match is featured on the link below.
  • The Glasgow Herald of Monday 8 October which covers the match reports that a Scottish motorist had climbed to the peak of Ben Nevis in a 'Baby' Austin. LINK

Review

Teams1928-10-06: Celtic 2-0 Queen's Park, Glasgow Cup Final - The Celtic Wiki

QUEEN'S PARK:
R. G. C. Peden, T. K. Campbell, W. Wiseman, J. McDonald, R. Gillespie, W. S. King, J. Crawford, W. S. Chalmers, D. McLelland, J. B. McAlpine, W. G. Nicholson.

CELTIC:
J Thomson; W McStay, Donoghue; Wilson, Donoghue, McFarlane; Connolly, A Thomson, McGrory, Gray, McCallum.
Scorers:McGrory, Gray

Referee: C. Bilney (Glasgow)

Attendance: 40,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

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Articles

The Glasgow Herald – Oct 9 1928
GLASGOW CUP FINAL

Trophy Retained by Celtic

At Hampden Park on Saturday approximately 40,000 spectators witnessed Celtic defeat Queen’s Park, thus winning the Glasgow Cup for the sixteenth time.

HAMPDEN THRILLS


A GOALKEEPER’S TRIUMPH

In point of popularity, the outstanding football engagement on Saturday was the meeting of Queen’s Park and Celtic in the final tie for the Glasgow Cup. The match, played at Hampden Park, was responsible for the largest attendance of the day, almost 40,000 paying for admission. Yet the attendance was far below expectations, being less than half that attracted to the corresponding event last year. This was the more surprising in view of the fact that Queen’s Park were one of the contestants for the first time in almost 30 years, a circumstance that was generally expected to create abnormal interest.
It is true that there was a strong counter-attraction in the district in the League game between Third Lanark and Rangers, but even with the addition of the number – 26,000 – present at Cathkin Park to the final figures, the return would have been below that of the previous year. It is difficult to account for the diminished interest, for while there was some resentment manifested that the final was not played on neutral ground, Scottish enthusiasts as a rule do not carry their antagonism to legislative action beyond mere verbal expression.

Amateurs’ Forwards Defied

The game itself provided one of the best displays of the season, and enabled Celtic, who won by two goals to none, to add another to their remarkable series of triumphs. Apart from the vital matter of goals however, it was a game in which all the honours lay with the losers. It is scarcely too much to say that Celtic were never so thoroughly outplayed by opponents as they were in the first half. The play of the Amateur half-backs and forwards in that period was beyond all criticism, in clever ball control, accurate shooting, and general all-round excellence, and only phenomenal goalkeeping by the youthful Celtic custodian, Thomson, denied Queen’s Park a lead which, on play, should have been substantial and deserved.
Celtic had probably an equal share of play after the interval, but their two goals, though smartly taken by McGrory and Gray, were not comparable with many earlier efforts of Queen’s Park’s that were frustrated by super-goalkeeping. Celtic only demonstrated equal ability with the losers after the scoring of the second goal, and while their victory in a sporting game was truly and fairly won, the final will be recalled primarily as a goalkeeper’s triumph.