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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- Lining up against Celtic this day was Adam "Scott" Duncan who would later play for Celtic as a guest for two games in which he was on the winning side. His spell in the hoops didn't do him any harm and he went on to manage Manchester United and Ipswich.
- Page 7 of The Glasgow Herald of Monday 25th September reports: "Sunday is proving an unlucky day for the aerial Huns" and goes on to detail the recent air raids over southern England by super-zeppelins which resulted in 3 losses for the Huns. LINK
- Page 6 of the same newspaper advertises J M Barrie's "A Kiss for Cinderella" at the King's Theatre, starring Percy Hutchison and Sarah Trevelyan. Harry Lauder is coming to the theatre on the week of 9th October.
- The Herald gives the week's casualty figures as 92 officers and 1,568 men killed in action.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair,Dodds, Young, Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, O'Kane, McMenemy, Browning
Scorers: Browning, O'Kane, Johnstone
RANGERS:
Lock, Manderson, Blair, Riddell, Logan, McKenna, Duncan, Archibald, Philip (Sunderland),Cairns, Lawson
Referee: J. Allan (Glasgow)
Attendance: 50,000
Articles
Glasgow Herald 25th September 1916
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Monday 25th September 1916
GLASGOW CUP – SEMI FINAL TIES
Though Labour and other leaders associate extravagance with attendance at football matches, upwards of 50,000 people patronised the Glasgow Cup tie at Parkhead, and the only section of the vast crowd which might be tempted to think that sevenpence and two hours had been foolishly squandered were partisans of the defeated side.
Yet as sometimes happens, to the losers fell the honours of the game, to the winners the spoils, the right to advance into the final round of the City Cup competition. While both clubs have given players to the Army, Rangers contingent of soldier players were available. Celtic, on the other hand, had the assistance for the day of two fortunate to secure leave of absence from military duties. The Ibrox team were further weakened by accidents to two new forwards who have been doing well in League football, and a reconstructed attack which did not include Bennett seemed to hold out slender hopes of success.
Now if one cannot score, the next best thing is to prevent one’s opponent from scoring. Defence not defiance was the motto of the disorganised team, and it so mixed matters as to offer a defence that had defiance to the Celtic attack for well over an hour. A goal to either side at this stage ensured success and once Browning beat Lock the Ibrox defenders collapsed and allowed O’Kane and Johnstone to score almost at will.
Taken all over the winners deserved their victory, though it was so tardily won, so dependent on a first goal as likely to have gone against them, that it must be repeated that the losing team had a claim on the sympathy of the impartial enthusiast, assuming that such exists.