Match ended 0-0
Match Information
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: A Allan (Glasgow)
Matchday: Monday
Match Trivia
I have witnessed the majority of League games between Aberdeen and Rangers during the half-dozen years, but I cannot recall an encounter marked by so much strenuousness and excitement as that of yesterday. If the 12,000 spectators had good cause to complain about the fare served up to them in the first half, the same complaint could certainly not be brought against the second half display. Of a sudden, what had every appearance of proving a dull and uninteresting game developed into a Titanic struggle, which kept the vast crowd in a veritable fever heat of excitement, and revealed an improvement on the part of Aberdeen, which, though failing to meet with its due reward, went a long way towards clearing away the clouds which have overhung Pittodrie within recent weeks. Rangers were the luckiest of teams to divide the points, but it has to be remembered that such capable players as Reid, Bennett and Galt were absent. It is questionable, however, if their presence would have made any difference on the result so far as Rangers were concerned, for during the last half-hour of the game Aberdeen played as they have never done this season. They appeared a team right best, and acquitting themselves in a manner which would have proved too much for even stringer opposition than Rangers were able to offer. It was into that half-hour that all that was worth seeing was crowded, for during the first half and the opening fifteen minutes of the second period the play was scarcely worthy of First League clubs. Rangers had if anything, been the slightly superior lot, but there was really little to choose between the teams in their mediocrity. The Light Blues – appeared to be leg-weary, as if they had had too much football of late, while Aberdeen’s display was quite in keeping with those of recent weeks. All at once the Northerners took it into their heads to make amends for precious shortcomings, and to the end the Rangers’ defence was subjected to a gruelling the like of which they are not likely to experience for a long time to come. During practically the whole of that time Aberdeen were masters of the situation. Play was seldom removed from Hempsey’s vicinity, and so persistent were the home half-backs and forwards that well-nigh every member of the Ibrox eleven was obliged to act the part of defender. Time and again the Aberdonians swooped down in a body on the Rangers goal. Corner succeeded corner, shot succeeded shot, but the Pittodrie players did everything but score. Luck seemed dead against them, and it was particularly galling to them when in the midst of the almost unbridled excitement McIntosh should have a goal disallowed. There were Times when Hempsey was decidedly fortunate to keep his charge intact, but much of the credit of Rangers draw is due to Campbell, Ormonde and the goalkeeper. The latter came out of a most trying ordeal with flying colours. That the Aberdeen management have done a good stroke of business in bringing Wylie back was amply demonstrated. There was no more outstanding players on the field than the burly centre-half, and it was he more than any other who was responsible for the comparative failure of the Rangers’ attack. So successfully did he hold Parker, Stewart and Goodwin in check that Wilson and Low could afford to confine their attention to the outside man, with the result that the visiting forwards seldom got an opportunity of shining. Colman, Hume and Greig did all that was required of them in fine style, one save of the custodian’s from Duncan being brilliant. It took the forwards a long time to settle, but once they did get into their stride they excelled. Nothing better than their display during the last half-hour has been seen at Pittodrie. Rangers missed Reid and Bennett badly for Wylie was more than a match for Parker and his inside colleagues. Duncan and Paterson were responsible for most of the danger that threatened the Aberdeen goal. Their shooting was seldom was seldom far off the mark and their crosses well-timed. Logan was the stalwart of the half-back line, and Gordon and Hendry suffered little by comparison. Considering the strain put upon them Campbell and Ormonde did well, even if the latter was inclined to kick rashly
