| Match Pictures | Matches: 1924 – 1925 |
Trivia
- Facing Celtic in the Rangers’ line up is ex-Celt Thomas “Tully” Craig.
- The Glasgow Herald reports on Signor Mussolini‘s attendance at a reception in Milan. LINK
- Also in the Herald a report that the Clydebank Rent Strike tribunal has been suspended.
- In Cranston’s cinema Glasgow a tale of crime is showing entitled Eugene Aram.
- The Glasgow Herald carries an advert which tells readers how Mr. Micawber would sell you Waverley cigarettes, made from a “soothing plant”.
Review
Teams
CELTIC: Shaw, W.McStay ,Hilley, Wilson,J.McStay,McFarlane, Connolly, Gallacher,McGrory, A. Thomson, McLean
Scorers: McLean
RANGERS: Robb, Manderson, Jamieson, Meiklejohn, Dixon, Craig, Archibald, Cunningham, Henderson, Cairns, Morton
Scorers: Henderson (2), Morton, Cairns
Referee: T. Dougray (Bellshill)
Attendance: 76,000
Articles
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Mon Oct 6, 1924
Rangers’ Glasgow Cup Triumph
CELTIC BEATEN FOR FIRST TIME
Celtic were beaten for the first time this season on Saturday, Rangers defeating them in the Glasgow Football Association Cup final tie. The game, which was played at Celtic Park, attracted 76,000 spectators, the money drawn at gate and stands amounting to £3665. Rangers, by winning, retain the trophy for a fourth consecutive year.
RANGERS’ DECISIVE WIN
Rangers won the first trophy of the season when at Celtic Park on Saturday they defeated Celtic by 4 goals to 1 in the final of the Glasgow Cup competition. The Ibrox club are no strangers to the honour, as they have won the Cup for the past four seasons, and altogether have secured its possession no fewer than 17 times – a record, needless to say, not equalled by any other competitor. Rangers in the course of their triumphs have met Celtic in 14 finals for the Cup, but no previous meeting of the pair in the competition stirred public imagination to the extent it did on Saturday. After several seasons of comparative obscurity, Celtic since the opening of the current season had shown an improvement in play and in team spirit that convinced many the Parkhead club were on the point of recovering their former greatness. The record of the club in the League encouraged this view, as they are the only member of the First Division still unbeaten, and as the Final was staged at Celtic Park the advantage of playing at home turned the scales finally in their favour in the opinion of impartial observers. The defeat of Rangers the previous week and the necessity of making changes in the Ibrox team at left half-back seemed to increase Celtic’s chances, and in all probability the majority of the big crown who attended – almost 76,000 – were prepared for the defeat of Rangers.
When Celtic were awarded the first goal nineteen minutes after the start of play it looked as if popular opinion was to be verified, more especially as the loss of the goal seemed to unsettle Rangers, whose play for the quarter of an hour following was ragged, loose and ineffective. The manner of losing the point, rather than its actual loss, in all probability unsettled Rangers, who resented the award of a goal by the referee after a defender had cleared. It took Rangers eighteen minutes more to get level, and in that period the fortunes of the game turned. Shaw, the Celtic goalkeeper, having the greater number of shots to deal with, but the Rangers’ custodian having the most difficult to counter – a masterly effort by Gallagher. Following Henderson’s equaliser for Rangers, Celtic almost succeeded in regaining the lead from the centre kick, a fast header from McGrory passing narrowly over the goal. This was however, practically Celtic’s last bid for victory. Rangers struck a brilliant game, the forwards passing with fine precision, and Morton closed the best movement of the match by shooting a spectacular goal, the Internationalist taking the ball in the air and sending it at great pace over the head of the Celtic goalkeeper into the net. Seven minutes after the interval Henderson headed a third goal for Rangers, and inside ten minutes Cairns shot a fourth, Rangers winning with comparative ease. The defeat of the Celtic – and particularly the decisiveness of it – was disappointing, as was their display. They failed chiefly at half back, the intermediate players being no match for the skilful and powerful Rangers forwards. Only the goalkeeper, W. McStay, McLean and Gallagher came out of the game with any credit or were within comparable distance of their opponents. Rangers did not give one of their brightest exhibitions – it was not required of them – but their substantial success was completely merited, and in it none played a more conspicuous part than two emergency players, Jamieson and Craig, and special mention is also due to Dixon for the effective manner in which he subdued Celtic’s goal-scoring centre forward, McGrory.