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Match Details

Raith Rovers

0-4

Rangers

League
Stark's Park
25 March, 1925

Raith Rovers

Mathieson
Barton
Moyes
Raeburn
Morris
Miller
Bell
Ritchie
James
Deuchar
Turner

4

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Rangers

Willie Robb
Bert Manderson
Billy McCandless
Davie Meiklejohn
Arthur Dixon
Tommy Muirhead
Sandy Archibald
Andy Cunningham
Geordie Henderson
Tommy Cairns
Alan Morton

Match Information

Goals

G Henderson 18, >45
S Archibald 60

Match Information

Manager: Bill Struth
Attendance: unknown - to be confirmed
Referee: Mr Petrie (Aberdeen)
Matchday:  Wednesday

Match Trivia

Rangers’ victory over Raith Rovers at Stark’s Park was a decisive as it was deserved. From Start to finish they dominated the situation and but for the determined defence of Barton and Moyes, who withstood the Ibrox onslaught with skill and fortitude, the score might easily have been greater. Rangers led at the interval by a goal, scored brilliantly by Henderson, but after the turn-about they right away set about translating their outfield superiority into goals. Within as many minutes Henderson had put them two up, and he and Archibald added a couple more. Raith were disjoined forward, where only Turner and James showed anything like their ordinary skill. In the second half James went to outside left berth – a foolish policy – afterwards he was seldom in the picture. The wing supports failed rather badly, while the half-backs, apart from Morris, were weak. Mathieson and his backs are due much praise for the splendid way they stood up to the rampart Rangers’ forwards. Little need be written of the Ibrox lot; suffice to say that they carried not a single passenger
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