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Match Details

Morton

7-2

Rangers

Challenge Match
Cappielow Park
Saturday
29 December, 1888

Morton

Richmond
Milnay
Forbes
A Fleming
Norris
Elliott
McColl
Gillespie
Coats
Stewart
R Fleming

4

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Rangers

Ritchie # 2
John Muir
Kane
Robert Hotson
Willie Pringle
James Gossland
Tom Wylie
Willie White
Jimmy Wilson
Morgan
Johnston # 1

Match Information

Goals

J Wilson
Gossland
Stewart
Fleming
Gillespie
Coats (3)
McColl

Match Information

Manager: No Permanent Manager
Attendance: TBC
Referee: TBC

Match Trivia

Played at Greenock. The Rangers kicking off, Gossland scored before the game was a couple of minutes old, but within five minutes both Stewart and R Fleming had registered a point for the home team. This was augmented further on by Gillespie, and before halftime Wilson scored very cleverly for the Rangers. In the second portion the visitors were kept well into their own territory, their excursions being few and far between, as well as fruitless in the matter of goals. On the other hand the Morton made a striking impression upon the defence of the Rangers even against exceptionally fine goalkeeping by Ritchie. Coats gained no fewer than three more points for the Morton and McColl another, so that at the finish the score was 7 to 2 in favour of the Morton, all of whom played a capital game. The Rangers never settled down, and their forwards play was of a straggling order.
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