Match ended 0-0
Match Information
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Tom Dougray (Bellshill)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
I have seen many a more thrilling game between Dundee and Rangers at Dens Park, but there were many moments of excitement in yesterday’s game. To begin with, the result is a fair one. Dundee might have won had luck been with them, but at no time had they a strong upper hand. Robb was busier than Britton, but that was all. Twice only was Rangers’ goal in danger – when Halliday forced Robb to tip over the bar and when McLean headed slickly into goal. On both occasions Robb showed great skill. As is usual on the occasion of Rangers’ visit, there was a great crowd, round about 20,000 being present with Dundee’s specious stands well filled. There were a number of blue bonnets and mufflers visible, but strange to say, scarcely ever a word was heard from their quarter. There was no need, for the game was cleanly contested, and there was an absence of the rough stuff. Cairns’ injury towards the close was a pure accident, but when he went outside right and Archibald inside right Rangers’ snap was gone. Dundee opened well and got into grips with Manderson and McCandless right away. McLean, Duncan and Halliday were on the dot, but the shooting was too far out for goalkeeper of Robb’s calibre. George Henderson, I thought was at fault twice. When clean through the defence he shot from forty yards’ range. McGregor, the Bruntonian, who deputised for Alan Morton, is speedy enough, but the thrills of a Morton run were missing, and despite feeding by Cairns and Craig, he did not male much use of his chances. Dundee pressed for twenty minutes, but corners were all that came, and then Archibald took a hand in the game. He sent in several crosses, but Rankine was a tumbling block to Henderson. Had Halliday not attempted too much he would have paid his side better, and a like remark applies to Knox, who was not content to beat McCandless once, with the inevitable result that Rangers’ left back came up smiling. Rangers’ open work paid, but they were never dangerous at goal, and the most Britton had to do was pick up balls sent back by Thomson. The ‘Napper’ was in his element and stopped Archibald time and again. I have not mentioned Cunningham so far for the good reason that he did nothing of note. In the first half he did not get in a decent shot, which was something new for Andrew, and a tribute to Sam Irving. Irving was always on his top but was often at fault in shooting when a pass would have paid. The brightest spot Rangers had was in the first fifteen minutes of the second half, when their forwards shook off their lethargy. Once Dundee’s goal was in luck when a hot drive from Cairns was blocked by Ross, but as so often happens with the Light Blues, their anxiety to score was their undoing. A word for Dixon. He was on Halliday’s toes all the game and gave Dundee’s centre no chances. The honours of the game go to Brown, Thomson, Rankine, Irving and McLean for Dundee, and Robb, McCandless, Dixon, Craig and Cairns for Rangers.
