Evans 3
G Henderson 25
Match Information
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: William Bell (Motherwell)
Matchday: Monday
Match Trivia
Rangers won by reason of the craft and resource of their forwards. Yet even though they retired at the interval with a well-merited lead, it was not until half-an-hour after the turn that the points seemed safe for Ibrox, so well did those doughty men from Yoker fight back in the second half. Inspired by an early goal – Evans put them up with less than a couple of minutes gone – Clydebank regaled us with a remarkably fine display. They perhaps did not possess the balance or team work of the Ibrox side, yet they came out of the encounter with great credit. Comparatively speaking, there were very few really concerted movements shown by either side, so well did the defences excel in destructive tactics. There were times, certainly, when the Ibrox attack was well nigh brilliant, but more often than not they were otherwise. This was simply because the Clydebank half-backs marked their men so well and tackled so determinedly that the Rangers forwards found it impossible to work close together. In this connection the craft of Cunningham and Cairns told. Finding their earlier schemes being easily foiled, they completely changed their plan of campaign with immediate success – with Twenty minutes ‘clocked’, Henderson got up to turn a sweeping cross by Cairns past the helpless Gallacher. Prior to this, Reid had beaten Robb again, but the whistle had gone before he let go. Cairns all but put the ‘Light Blues’ ahead immediately after Henderson’s goal with a tremendous oblique drive which flashed past the outside of a post, with Gallacher beaten. But a second goal was not long denied them. Cutely drawing the Yoker defence, Cairns slipped the ball to Morton. Alan run on before sweeping it towards the advancing Cunningham, and meeting it with his deadly left, Andrea smashed it past Gallacher. Then a touch of ‘wee Alan’ at his best. Picking up a loose forward pass, he set off, beat four ‘Yokerites’, and let go a fierce low shot, which the Clydebank keeper saved in masterly style. Jack was every whit as good as his master after the turn, but any hope Clydebank may have had of saving a point went when Henderson put the finishing touch to a strategic move by Cairns. Gallacher was left helpless. Gray and McKendrick were grand men in two splendid defences, and Scraggs developed into the finest half-back afield. Next, I would place Dixon. No forward could be compared with Cunningham. At times Morton was superb, but at others he was inclined to try too much. He had an admirable partner in Cairns. Henderson, apart from taking both his goals in excellent fashion, led the line with rare dash. Chalmers was the star Yoker forward
