| Match Pictures | Matches: 1924 – 1925 |
Trivia
- Edward “Ned” Corrigan made his debut in this match at outside left. Unlucky Eddie might have been his nickname as all four of his first team appearances resulted in heavy defeats.
- Just days before the General Election The Glasgow Herald is full of political articles not least the furore over The Zinoviev Letter which was later found to be a forgery. LINK
- Also in the Glasgow Herald a report that Mr. De Valera, who was in Newry to address an election meeting had been seized by the police in Derry and put on a train to Dublin.
- Again in the Glasgow Herald an advert for a film at the Cranston Picture Palace entitled “The Fall of an Empress” about a notorious Roman empress lusting after a Persian slave who drives chariots.
Review
Teams
CELTIC: Shevlin, W.McStay, Hilley, Wilson, J. McStay, McFarlane, Connolly, Gallacher, McGrory, A. Thomson, Corrigan
RANGERS: Robb, Manderson, Jamieson, Meiklejohn, Dixon, Craig, Archibald, Cunningham, Henderson, Chalmers, Morton
Scorer: Morton
Referee: J. F. Rowe (Glasgow)
Attendance: 40,000
Articles
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Pictures
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald – Mon 28 Oct, 1924
CELTIC’S DEFEAT.
For the second time in three weeks Rangers, on Saturday, beat their greatest rivals, Celtic on the latter’s ground. The margin of difference between the pair at the close of the game was only one goal, and Rangers were probably superior to that extent. But the Celtic team made a much better fight against their traditional foe than they did in the recent Cup-tie, and though Rangers’ play was less impressive than usual, the closer result may fairly be ascribed to improvement on Celtic’s part. The team did not exhibit the timidity that marked their demeanour three weeks previously in the Glasgow Cup final, and their confident and daring raiding of Rangers’ defence was in contrast to the nerveless display they provided in the earlier game. But the biggest contrast of all was in the attendance, which from 78,000 in the first game fell to about half that number on Saturday. Undoubtedly Cup-tie football makes special appeal, but the big difference in numbers in drawing power cannot wholly be accounted for as the difference in drawing power between a Cup-tie and a League match. Celtic’s failure in the first game was a grievous disappointment to many who believed and hoped that they were again strong enough to challenge Rangers’ dominance, but the victory of the latter was so decisive and substantial that many looked upon the result of the League match as a foregone conclusion, and consequently did not attend. As a matter of fact the issue was in doubt until seven minutes from the end, when Morton snapped the only goal for Rangers. The clubs were similarly matched as to the constitution of their teams, each being without a notable forward – McLean (Celtic) and Cairns (Rangers). The substitutes played reasonably well – Chalmers (Rangers), indeed, more than reasonably well – but the attack of both sides suffered in sparkle and liveliness through the absence of the noted players referred to. Celtic also played their new goalkeeper, Shevlin, and his display was one of the outstanding features of the game. There was much good goalkeeping, from which it may be inferred that the players were in shooting form. This they undoubtedly were, Connolly, Thomson, Gallagher, and McFarlane (Celtic), and Cunningham, Chalmers, Henderson, and Morton (Rangers) excelling in that respect; though it has to be added that the half-backs on both sides did not distinguish themselves. It would be incorrect to say that Rangers were lucky to win, for they attacked oftenest, but there was so little between the sides that few would have demurred had Celtic got a division of the points. It was Celtic’s first defeat of the League this season.