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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- The Glasgow Herald continues to damn Celtic with faint praise and hark back to past defeats in a barely disguised biased manner.
- The Scotsman reckons the prospect of seeing Quinn accounted for the reported large crowd said to be 15,000.
- Kingseat-born Fifer, Michael Gibbons of Falkirk, was one of many footballers who would join McCrae’s Battalion. Frank Reilly also in this team joined that regiment.
- Jessica Borthwick is pictured in the Glasgow Herald on her steam yacht Grace Darling in which she bravely rescued refugees from Ostend.
- Sir D M Stevenson, Lord Provost of Glasgow welcomed some of the 3,000 Belgian refugees that the city received over the weekend. His speech was translated into Flemish by the Rev Father Ooghe who led three cheers in response. The number of Belgian refugees would rise to 8,000.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young, Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, Quinn, McMenemy, Browning
Scorer: Gallacher
FALKIRK:
Alex Stewart, Robert Abbie Orrock, Alex Henderson, McDonald, Frank Reilly, James McMillan, John Arthur McNaught, Michael Gibbons, James Robertson, McCulloch, Thomas Glancy
Referee: T. Dougray, (Barrhead)
Venue: Celtic Park
Attendance: 10,000
Articles
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Pictures
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Monday 19 Oct 1914
A BOLD EXPERIMENT.
Unlike Ayr United and most First League clubs, the Celtic consider a reserve team a luxury, preferring rather to trust their fortunes to a minimum number of tried players. Last season, it will be remembered, they muddled through to cup and championship honours by the aid of sundry substitutes for Quinn, and now they are hoping that this player will take the place at times of another who is reckoned as a Quinn in the making.
Only success can justify daring experiments, and the Parkhead club may again come to the front after the usual lame beginning.
The reappearance of Quinn added at least £100 to the gate, and as he had a share in the only goal scored, he may be said to have paid his way, literally and figuratively against Falkirk.
Yet harking back to the Glasgow Cup tie lost at Shawfield when defeat was invited by playing McMenemy and Browning out of their positions and so weakening the attack without strengthening the defence, one can realise that economy and experiment can be carried too far.
The Scotsman, Monday, 19th October, 1914
The expected reappearance of Quinn in the Celtic team no doubt accounted in large measure for the big attendance at Parkhead, which must have numbered 15,000. They were treated to a good game, and though Quinn narrowly missed on two occasions getting goals through magnificent saving by Stewart, the famous centre had a say in the only one scored by Gallacher well on in the second half.
On the run of the game Celtic deserved their win. They held the scoring chances but Falkirk’s defence stood up excellently, Stewart, the backs, and Reilly excelled.
The visiting forwards were not so strong finishers as were the Parkhead lot, where Quinn, if slower, still gets a lot of power behind his shots.
