Renwick 38
Match Information
Attendance: 13,000
Referee: J Horsburgh (Bonnyrigg)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Dismiss all ideas of a fluke in the result, sensational as it is. The better team won on the days play. No doubt about that. Rangers may plead that the cast-iron ground was against good football, but that excuse wont wear. A team of their reputation should be able to suit themselves to any circumstances of ground or weather; and it was fair overhead, with no spoiling wind. Failure to do so confesses a lack of first-class team intelligence, and Rangers were glaringly deficient in that respect. The skilful player should have known to kill the ball and not depend on the speculative bounce. In general, the Rangers players didnt savvy and got each other all muddled with close and jerky passing. It was a ground for the open, swinging game down the wings, but Rangers became strangled in their own intricacy. This enabled Queens defence to defy them in open and Rangers never looked like getting goal. Only an occasional cross from Kinnear, carried any danger to Queens, but he was Rangers lone star. Maybe it was a good thing for some of Rangers players that none of the Scottish selectors were present. Simpson was not happy, and I heard Jerry Dawson blamed for the loss of the goal, though I dont fully agree. To my mind the whole Rangers defence was at fault or, rather outmanoeuvred. Well deal with this historic goal before going further. It came seven minutes before the interval. Cumming, who was always jockeying and a big factor in Queens feeling of confidence, spied a chance of sending Renwick through. Renwick was struck by the same thought, for he ran in, gobbled the pass and lofted the ball over Dawsons head into the net. Dawson was criticised for Coming out too late, but he was asked to do more than his own job. It was a neatly designed and neatly accomplished goal, quite fit to rank as the decider in a game little else blessed in football brains. With that, let us dismiss Rangers and give some attention to the Dumfries heroes. First touch your caps to the veterans, Fotheringham and Allan. Rangers might have won the game after ten minutes play or saved it shortly before the finish but for wonder-saves by Fotheringham from Kinnear and Main. Allan was the spirit of destruction to Rangers and his influence on defence was decisive. He short-circuited all Rangers wiles and Savage and Culbert completed the sabotage. Savage came back to National notice, the best back on the field. McKenzie, a former Rangers forward, was a surprise packet at half back, useful and untiring. Thomson was often an extra forward and this was essential to Queens triumph, as Tulip was practically a passenger for over an hour through a knee injury. So, Queens may be said to have won with ten fit men, but this was merely incidental in a game really lacking in thrill despite the dramatic result. Fatality was written all over it, once Queens took the lead. Law was always a thorn to Rangers. In justice to Smith, he was handicapped in heading the ball or following its flight in the air through a plastered forehead. McPhail tried to make this up in thrust, but it was confusion worse confounded in Rangers ranks
