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Match Details

Glentoran

0-3

Rangers

Challenge Match
The Oval (Northern Ireland)
Saturday
9 April, 1904

Glentoran

Lewis
Bennett
McMaster
McLean
Connor
Crothers
McKeown
Mitchell
P Donoghue
J Donoghue
Waddington

4

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Rangers

John Watson
Nicol Smith
Alex Fraser
George Henderson # 1
James Stark
William McGraw
Charles Chalk
Alec Mackie
Thomas Paton
Finlay Speedie
Alec Smith

Match Information

Goals

Mackie (3)

Match Information

Manager: William Wilton
Attendance: 1000
Referee: 

Match Trivia

Only about a thousand spectators witnessed this game at Belfast on Saturday, the miserable weather keeping many away. The Ibrox team was not quite at full strength, but it was too many for the ‘bhoys,’ who had to retire well beaten by 3 goals to 0. For the first fifteen minutes of the first half the Rangers let their opponents do all the attacking, and it was only after Mackie opened the scoring for them that they showed something like form. The Glentoran men, however, stood up well to their more experienced opponents, and the Rangers’ defenders were not long idle, Watson bringing off several good saves. Interval – Rangers 1; Glentoran 0. Soon after the restart Mackie again scored, and after the Glasgow men had put in a great amount of attack work, Mackie again got through, and thus secured all the Rangers’ points. This finished the scoring in a game which was all in favour of the popular Light Blues
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