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Trivia
- Willie Hughes, Celtic's outside-right equalised in 44 minutes, with a drive from 20 yards, after Jimmy Smith had given Rangers the lead in 18 minutes. Chic Geatons had the chance to win the game from the penalty spot, but his shot struck the junction of bar and post.
- "Local Derby Day" in Scottish football provided several surprises. One of the most prominent features of the results was the remarkable scarcity of the goals recorded. In the ten matches only 15 goals were scored. Nine teams failed to find the net at all, and eight of them scored only once. Airdrieonians were top scorers of the First Division, with three goals against Albion Rovers. The meeting of Hearts and Hibernians attracted 35,000 spectators to Easter Road and they saw the Hibernians winners of the engagement by the only goal of the game. There was another missed penalty at Parkhead, Geatons failing with the kick.
- In England Sunderland, the leaders of the First Division, played splendidly in their home game at Roker Park, and defeated Chelsea by four clear goals. Right from the start the Sunderland forwards, combining speed with effective ball control and admirable combination, had the Chelsea defence in difficulty. Patsy Gallacher, the Sunderland inside left, gave his side the lead at the end of ten minutes, and when Davis put over a beautiful centre the same player obtained a second goal. Five minutes after the resumption Raich Carter outmanoeuvred the Chelsea defence to score a third goal, and subsequently Patsy Gallacher completed a great hat trick by heading into the net from a corner kick.
- The unity of the Nazi party, the Storm Troops, and the Defence Squads was emphasised by Herr Hitler when he reviewed 120,000 Storm Troopers and Defence Squad members in the Luitpold Arena, Nuremberg. Their victory was not for months, but for centuries, he said. Theirs was the mightiest movement, in German history. In Hyde Park in London another Fascist rally held by Lord Mosley broke up amid scenes of serious disorder and fighting between the fascists and anti-fascist demonstrators.
- It is feared that over 170 people have perished following a fire on the U.S. cruise liner Morro Castle.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, McGonagle, Morrison, Geatons, Hughes, Delaney, McInally, McGrory, MacDonald, Napier.
Scorers:
Hughes.
RANGERS:
Dawson, Gray, McDonald, Craig, Simpson, Brown, Main, Venters, Smith, McPhail, Kinnear.
Scorers:
Smith.
Referee: M. C. Hutton (Glasgow).
Attendance: 38,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
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Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 10th September 1934, page 4
CELTIC AND RANGERS DRAW
After a hard tussle Celtic and Rangers would doubtless be quite happy to divide the points at Parkhead.
It was, as usual, a case of two halves. Rangers had the best of the first period, but Celtic came into their own in the second portion, and within 15 minutes of the finish came very near to snatching a win over their old foes.
The home team had some bad luck when an old injury of McGonagle's reasserted itself, and the back had to go off. He resumed at outside left, and Celtic had to shake up their team to accommodate him. Morrison went to left back and Napier to right half.
The game opened in the usual cat-and-mouse fashion, and thrills were in abundance, but nothing tangible resulted until 18 minutes from the start, when McPhail pounced on a loose ball close in to give his side the lead. Rangers dominated play from then onwards, and things looked black for Celtic but they kept pegging on, and just on the interval there was a fine goal from Hughes, who gained possession about midfield and streaked in on Dawson, beating man after man, to finish up with a shot from the corner of the 18 yards line to equalise the scores.
The first incident of note in the second half was a brilliant save by Kennaway from a McPhail header, then Delaney scampered off to Dawson's end to give McGrory a chance which he failed to take. The Celtic centre was badly at fault later when McGonagle put the ball up and he fired it straight at Dawson from ten yards range.
Main and Kinnear were the highlights of the Rangers attack, the young left-winger being very smart, but just a bit nervy. The Celtic stormed the visitors' goal in the closing stages, but Simpson and his backs were not to be beaten. The Ibrox centre-half did give away a penalty-kick eventually, and Geatons took the kick, but struck the angle of the upright and the cross-bar, and the ball was cleared. McDonald almost got through in the closing stages, but again Simpson arrived in time to foil him. Simpson was the hero of the Rangers' team, and was the bulwark which took the shock of most of the Celtic attacks.
Both goalkeepers and all four backs played well, and very little difference could be found in the intermediate lines. While the Rangers' attack seemed to be sharper than that of Celtic, the home team progressed just as well, through short passing movements. McDonald was the best of the home forwards, but was inclined to try too much, and McInally was never comfortable.
Main and Kinnear were very good for Rangers. Smith was keen enough, but slow, and McPhail was good until he faded out. Venters was clever, but seemed to get rattled early on and could not settle.
The attendance was 38,000.
