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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- The Glasgow Herald reports that the former MP for Darlington Ignatius Timothy Trebitach Lincoln, self styled “brainiest man in the world” and a suspected German spy who escaped from police custody in New York has been recaptured and will be charged in the US before being extradited to Gret Britain where he is wanted for forgery. LINK
- The Glasgow Herald reports on page 4 that the vast majority of the, almost 4,000 crimes reported in Greenock in 1915, involved intoxication. Statistics showed men at 89.7% were slightly better than women with 91.3% intoxicated when they committed their offence.
Review
Teams
QUEEN’S PARK:
Richardson, Thorpe, J Neilson, Marshall, Barry, Ford, Sibbald, McConnachy, Bob Morton, Cresswell, Alan Morton
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young,Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorer: Gallacher
Referee: J. Binnie (Falkirk)
Attendance: 15,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Monday 21st February, 1916
ALMOST A SENSATION
Queen’s Park defence brought off a surprise, and their forwards almost accomplished the sensational in checking the all-conquering Cetlic. Had Creswell scored three minutes from the finish it would have been a fitting reward for the Amateurs defence and a just punishment on the side which were the better, yet which gave a most disappointing display. Unfortunately the Hampden attack was too lopsided to be effective. Too much attention was given to the left wing to the exclusion of Sibbald and McConnachie, so while it was always an easy matter for A. L. Morton to get the better of Young and McNair it was equally easy for others of the Celtic defenders to cross over and blot out the only semblance of danger. The Amateurs defence was as solid and reliable as the attack was one-sided and innocuous. The half backs put the leaders’ inside forwards clean off their game. Thorpe and Neilson accounted for Browning and McAtee, and Richardson kept such a splendid goal as to deserve sympathy for being beaten, as he was eventually in a scrimmage. While the Celtic deserved to win because of the amount of pressure applied, a draw would have been better deserved by those impartial spectators with the sporting insight to realise and appreciate the Amateurs’ endeavour to save the game.