Cunningham 15
McCallum
Brady +1
McMahon +5
Brady 50
J Law
Henderson
N Kerr
Match Information
Manager: No Permanent Manager
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: George Sneedon
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
The semi-final tie between the Celtic and the Rangers at Parkhead created a lot of interest in the East End and in the city generally. Although the Rangers had never yet defeated their famous opponenets, the result of Saturday’s tie created considerable doubt. The Ibrox Park men had improved greatly in form during the past few weeks, and strengthened as they were by the inclusion of Frank Watt (Kilbirnie), their followers fully expected them to rise to the occasion, and if not to win outright at least to draw. The ground was exceedingly heavy, and was sprinkled here and there with sawdust. At 3.15 the Celts having lost the toss kicked off. A bad pass by Andrew McCreadie allowed the Celts to come away with a brilliant run, and one of the Rangers halfbacks had to concede a corner, which came to nothing. The open stages of the game saw the Celts in dashing form all round. Henderson slipped and sprained his wrist, and had to retire for a time. ‘Hands’ against the Celts looked dangerous, but Kelly got the ball away. After a few minutes hard play the Rangers settled down, and pressed hard, but to no purpose, although but for the prompt work of Doyle and Cullen they would have got the ball through. Kelly was also very active, and never allowed an opportunity to slip in dashing in and clearing his lines and feeding his forwards. Working their way in machine line fashion to the other end, a corner was conceded the home side, but it was fruitless. The Rangers had a dashing run after this, and the ball being passed over to the centre, Law missed an open goal, to the chagrin of the ‘Light Blue’ supporters. The Ibrox men were showing plucky, dashing play, and had several narrow shaves in not scoring. McMahon was very prominent in the Celtic front division, and required a lot of watching. After fully 15 minutes play Cunningham scored the first goal for the Celtic with a long drive, which took Haddow fairly by surprise. Playing up for all they knew, the Celtic had two corners, which although well placed, came to nothing. After their reverse the Rangers played in most determined fashion, but Doyle proved the great thorn in their side. He was playing in great style, tackling fearlessly, dashing in and showing the greatest judgment in his returns. Many a time the Rangers fairly stormed the Celtic goal, and but for Doyle’s Herculean efforts they unquestionably would have scored. Relieved at length of a prolonged attack the Celts once more found themselves in proximity to the Rangers goal, but a foul against them allowed Andrew McCreadie to send in a hanging shot, which Doyle headed out. Returning to the attack Frank Watt banged the ball in, but it struck the post – hard lines for the Rangers. Immediately afterwards, however, Law got the ball through, but the whistle having been blown for offside the point was disallowed. Playing in really brilliant style a fine run by McMahon and Campbell resulted in the ball being passed to the right when McCallum shot it through, and a minute later Brady scored the third goal. The game had gone 35 minutes, and it was felt it was all over with the Rangers. Five minutes later McMahon, who had not been seen in such grand form this year, shot the fourth goal for the Celts. Right on the game was keenly contested, and although occasionally the Rangers had hard lines, on the other hand they had opportunities of which they did not avail themselves. At Halftime the score was – Celtic 4: Rangers 0. On the second half, the Celts had the wind and sun at their backs. The Rangers immediately assumed the aggressive, and Kerr had hard lines with a shot, which struck the post. Although preceding on hard and fast lines the game had really little interest, as after five minutes play, Brady, from a pass by McCallum scored the fifth goal for the Celts. The Rangers were kept fairly in check by the grand back play of the Celts. At length the Rangers got a goal, Law who had been playing well, sending the ball through. Forming a perfect scrimmage in front of the Celts goal, the Rangers with a rush, got the ball through a second time, but offside was given. The Rangers warmed to their work in determined style, and for a time fairly paralysed the Celtic, but somehow they could not increase their score. From a foul the Rangers scored their second goal, Henderson sending the ball through, but even that failed to arouse great enthusiasm. The game was very evenly and stubbornly contested right on to the close, and from a pass by Henderson, Kerr headed through the third goal for the Rangers. Seldom indeed has such resurrection, so to weak, been witnessed. The good training of the Rangers – they could not have been turned out in better condition – stood them in good stead. They fairly surprised the Celts by their go-ahead play, and had they exhibited anything like it in the first half the result would have been closer. As it is, they must be complemented on laying as uphill a game as ever was attempted by any club, and they came out of it with flying colours. A high class, genuine display of football resulted as follows – Celtic 5 goals: Rangers 3 goals.
