McAlpine >45
Missed Penalties
Dr Marshall pen miss <45
Match Information
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: J Baillie (Motherwell)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
To see the grand transformation act come to Ibrox. The apparently impossible happened. Queens Park, who had come near disgracing themselves a week before against exactly the same opposition, jumped right into the good graces of their friends. That the Amateurs won well there is no doubt at all. They were full of beans. You would have imagined they had never heard of a certain Glasgow Cup final. Rangers were not a good team. They never really found their game either at half-back or forward. But the forwards were the worse sinners. It looked almost as if the hard games with Celtic were only now telling, for they were the yard or so slower than the quick, alert Hampden defenders. And just to rub it in, they missed two penalties kicks, or rather Smith saved Marshalls kick from the spot three minutes from the interval, and Morton trying, as was right to place the ball, hit Smiths right-hand post three minutes from the end. Just before Queens Park scored, they had been going well on the right where Crawford was getting a plentiful supply of the ball and making good use of it. Then Morton got a chance to race away and cut in. He was brought down, and Marshalls penalty was saved by Smith. That happened three minutes from the interval, and two minutes later Queens Park scored. From a free-kick the ball went across high to the left. Both Meiklejohn and McAlpine made for it, and just as they met, the ball was seen to deflect away from Dawson into the net. It was a question which of them had scored, but on inquiry, I was told that McAlpine had got the ball on the top of his shoulder as he barged forward. And so, the game was won. Twelve minutes after the restart Smith and English, to the accompaniment of a cheer from the crowd, changed places. This gave driving force to the wing, but though the Hampden defence weakened in the last fifteen minutes, they stuck gallantly to their task and earned the honours of the victory. It looked, however, as if they were doomed only to draw when Smith was pushed from behind when running in, and the second penalty was awarded, but the fates smiled. Morton failed. In goal, Smith did everything asked of him, and he gained confidence from the staunch resourceful defence of Harvey and Dickson, and the great work of the half-backs, all three of whom were of the match-winning kind. McCartney and Grant came near mastering the Rangers wings for periods, and Gillespie was great in defence. The forwards did their part, too none better than Bremner, who was the right partner for Crawford who, if uneven a bit, often caused a flutter in the Rangers rear. Scarcely ever did the Ibrox front line get going with a seeing. They were jerky and erratic, and found it easier to get into a tangle than out of it. Nor did the half-backs play as they can play, even if the defeat was not attributable to them. J Marshall missed a penalty in 42 mins and Morton missed a penalty in 87 minutes
