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Match Information
Manager: No Permanent Manager
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Monday
Match Trivia
These clubs met in the first round of the Scottish cup competition, and the interest manifested has only been paralleled by the international match in the early spring of this year. It has been competed that 16,000 were within the extensive enclosure at Parkhead, and if the gates had not been closed long before the hour for starting the game, other 5000 would have been willing to play for admission. The cars and buses could not accommodate a tithe of the public, and most of them had to walk from all parts of the city to the field. Gallowgate was crowded with pedestrians proceeding eastwards for a couple of hours, and shopkeepers state truthfully that never did that thoroughfare present such a scene. Though the large number above mentioned got within the pay gate a considerable proportion could not see so densely were the ropes lined; one gentleman stating that though he attended to report for a news agency, he only saw the ball when it was in the air. The Rangers were confident, as they had the team, which have placed the club at the top of the league list, and the general public thought the result was a moral for the light blues. The Celtic, which started the season so badly, wanted the services of Kelly, suspended by the Association Professional Committee and of McLaren, who accidentally burned his foot. But the Celtic Committee did not despair, but gathered together an eleven who they hoped would give a good account of themselves. Their expectations were more then realised. The Celtic men began the game with great determination, and played throughout so skilfully and in so combined a manner that to use the language of a well-known lawyer and enthusiast they made rings round the Rangers. In the first period they scored thrice; but the first two were disallowed on the plea of offside; but the third was beyond dispute a goal. In the second period the game was fast, and both goals were endangered, but nothing further was done, and the Celtic walked off the field victor’s one goal to nil. The victory was a great one for the Celts, and the defeat serious for the Rangers, who are thus early in the season out of the cup-ties
