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Match Details

Kilmarnock

1-1

Rangers

Challenge Match
Rugby Park
Wednesday
11 September, 1929

Kilmarnock

Clemie
Robertson
Nibloe
Morton
T Smith
McEwan
Connell
M Smith
Cunningham
Ramsay
Paterson

4

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Rangers

Tom Hamilton
James Purdon
Robert Hamilton
Robert McDonald
Robert Ireland
Jimmy Simpson
Sandy Archibald
George McMillan
Dr James Marshall
Jimmy Fleming
Willie Nicholson

Match Information

Goals

Fleming
Unknown

Match Information

Manager: Bill Struth
Attendance: 4000
Referee: 

Match Trivia

Benefit Match, Four thousand spectators watched a game at Rugby Park last night, on behalf of the McWhinnie Memorial Fund, which started in quiet fashion but finished like a cup-tie. Overall, a draw was a good result, for if Kilmarnock had the better of matters in the first half, Rangers forced the pace in the second. Kilmarnock scored after thirty minutes and it was the result of good work by Mattha Smith, who tipped the ball to Cunningham for the centre to drive home. Before that Kilmarnock had had a run of corners which were always dangerous, and Marshall had had a good try for Rangers. In the second half both goals ran some narrow escapes. Rangers put more vim into their work, and had their reward in a good Fleming goal, the inside left walking the ball through. To the end the play was keen, but the defences held out
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