B McPhail 9, >45
Fleming 60
Dr Marshall 87
Match Information
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: J Burton (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Hamilton Academicals got off lightly in being beaten by only two goals by Rangers. Luck helped them to a great extent, for Archibald three times and McPhail once hit the woodwork with thumping shots. Shevlin too played a heros part in keeping the score down. He brought off one brilliant save after another; his work being characterised by splendid judgment and remarkable agility. He could not have been blamed had the score against him been doubled. Beyond Shevlin and Allan, none of the Academicals earned bouquets. Some of them did good work sometimes, but all of them did bad work too often, both in attack and in defence. McPhail was the man of the afternoon in the Rangers attack. He carried the ball through the defence in that masterful way of his, and his shooting was both forceful and accurate. Smith occasionally seemed too keen in get goals, and to spoil a better-placed colleague. He played well, however, in an attack that was too good for the Douglas Park defence. At half-back Rangers had a big pull, and if Russell was inclined to be risky, the covering-up of Simpson and Gray was adequate to avert danger. Rangers led at the interval by McPhails goal, headed in from a corner taken by Archibald in the ninth minute. Thirteen minutes after the restart McPhail got another of the same, the ball this time coming to him from Flemings flag-kick. Six minutes later McPhail left Fleming away to score a third. Hamilton seemed well beaten then, but they pulled up to within a goal. Dave Wilson got one in 23 minutes when he was left open awaiting a long kick from Young, and King snatched the other five minutes from the end with a near narrow-angle shot close in. In the last minute Marshall, whose continual efforts to get a goal had met with non-success, slammed the ball into the net with a free kick.
