S Archibald 30
Shaw 55
Match Information
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: D Calder (Rutherglen)
Matchday: Tuesday
Match Trivia
But for several individual efforts, some of which were really brilliant, there was not a great deal to enthuse over at Ibrox last night. The Rangers crowd were quite delighted with their young centre forward, who if he did not get a goal, had one brilliant drive which brought out an equally splendid save by Shingleton. Cunningham, too, was in good fettle, and if he did not get a goal, it wasn’t for want of trying, and he gave Archibald many openings which the ‘the Fifer’ did not make quite the most of, although he opened the scoring with a terrific drive close in from an acute angle. It also delighted the Ibrox faithful to see Shaw get a goal. The ex-Hibernian could not be said to have done anything out of the ordinary except for that goal, which was beautifully taken. Shingleton had no chance to save whatever. Up to a point Dunfermline did fairly well but when it came to driving the ball home, they were weak as water. I can only recall one shot which troubled Hamilton. It came from Sutton’s foot – a real good drive which the Ibrox goalkeeper did not hold first time. In a word Rangers won comfortably, and perhaps because they were not stretched too far, they didn’t do anything exceptional. I am not so sure that the formation of the half-back line is the best at their command. And while Clydebank Smith, who was given a run in the inside-left berth, did fairly well, he was too often on top of Morton to give Alan the opportunities he likes best. As I have indicated, the Ibrox defence was not unduly tested – Gray and Manderson had time to get in some nice kicking. Craig was best of the intermediate line. The laurels of the attack went to Cunningham and Marshall, with Morton as dangerous as usual when he got going, which was not too often. Shingleton brought off some grand saves; Herd (a half-back) and Jock Wilson were a sound pair of backs; while Harvey was perhaps the pick of a moderate half-back line in which there was little to draw between the trio. Forward, the men lacked punch. Dickson was clever without being effective; Sutton was the best of the five.
