S Archibald 6
Match Information
Attendance: 18000
Referee:
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
A drizzle that lasted all afternoon and made the pitch at Ebbets field as slippery as glass failed to hamper the machine-like, methodical game of the Glasgow Rangers, Scottish soccer champions, who wound up their tour of the United States and Canada in ablaze of glory, conquering the American League All-star combination by 6 goals to 0 yesterday. A crowd of 15,000 sat in amazement throughout the contest while the boys from the Cheviot Hills put on a dazzling exhibition of soccer football. Wrought up to a point where their enthusiasm got the best of them, hundreds of the 15,000 spectators rushed upon the field two minutes before the game ended, lifted each and everyone of the Rangers players on their shoulders and carried them into the dugout in a wild effort to bid the boys good-bye. The Scots sail for their homeland on the Berengaria Wednesday night. The Royal Blues were slow in starting and at half time were ahead by only 1 to 0. At the restart their general superiority, both in team and individual play began to tell and they swept through the All-Stars, the pick of the American Soccer League, for goal after goal. The last time the Rangers visited Brooklyn and defeated the Wanderers by 4 to 0 they had the assistance of James Fleming and Alan Morton. In that game Fleming scored all the goals. Yesterday Fleming and Morton were missing from the lineup, having sailed for Scotland earlier in the week, business pressure causing their sudden departure. Their absence was little felt by the Scots, however, who, instead of concentrating the attack on Fleming only divided the scoring among five of their players, Cunningham, Archibald, Marshall, Buchanan and McPhail, the first-named being the only one to score twice. The Rangers attacked heavily at the start of the game, but the All-Stars backs were equal to the offensive drive of the visitors for the time being. Archibald, Cunningham and Marshall co-operated a draw the All-Stars defence out of position. Marshall’s shot for the goal, however, went wide of its mark. A foul by Tom McMillan gave Cunningham a free shot 25 yards from the goal, but Dave McMillan bobbed into the picture and booted the ball out of danger. Archibald, the Scot’s great outside right, scored the first goal 17 minutes after the start, sending a terrific shot just inside the corner for a score. It is doubtful whether any goalie in the world could have staved off that one. There was no further scoring in the first half, Marshall coming the nearest to Tallying when he was alone in front of the net but sent the ball high and wide of the goal. Eight minutes after the restart, Cunningham sent the crowd sheering when he took a pass from McPhail and converted it into the Rangers’ second goal. The Scottish titleholders were attacking swiftly and fiercely, and it soon became obvious that they far outmatched their opponents, who although strong in individual play, could not cope with the near perfect teamwork of the foreigners. Buchanan placed one in the corner od the All-Star net five minutes later for the rangers’ third goal. Eleven minutes elapsed before Archibald ran loose on the right side of the field and as he approached the net shot an unexpected pass to Cunningham, the latter making good with his second tally of the game. The best chance the All-Stars had of scoring all afternoon went to naught when Archie Stark’s hard shot hit the goal post and bounced back on the field. At exactly 36 minutes in the second half, Marshall subbing at centre forward for Morton, scored the fifth Rangers goal, driving the mud-laden ball into an unprotected corner of the net. McPhail brought the visitors’ total to six five minutes before closing time, breaking loose amidst a wild mix-up in front of the All-Stars net.
