The-Rangers-Archives-Logo-animated-reel

Match Details

Clyde

0-1

Rangers

League - Western Division
Shawfield Park
9 December, 1939

Clyde

Brown
Kirk
Hickie
Wallace
Gavin
Dunn
Agnew
Martin
Taylor
Noble
Hanlon

4

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

Rangers

George Jenkins
Dougie Gray
Jock Shaw
Tom McKillop
Willie Woodburn
Scot Symon
Willie Waddell
Willie Thornton
Jimmy Smith
Alex Venters
Christopher McNee

Match Information

Goals

J Smith 11

Match Information

Manager: Bill Struth
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: W McCulloch (Glasgow)
Matchday:  Saturday

Match Trivia

Rangers pulverised Clyde in the first half. And in the second the Bully Wee were always looking seedy despite their instinctive battling. No wonder the Light Blues are top of the League. Their play was tops – and they were a league ahead of Clyde. I have seldom seen better and more rapid combination in any game. No matter which Rangers’ player happened to be in a Clyde back-out, he seemed always able to spot a chink and use it to pass the ball to a colleague. Tom McKillop was the finest player on the field, checking, prompting and urging in that nonchalant manner which is bewildering deceptive in more ways than one. Jimmy Smith (who scored a magnificent goal from 18 yards in the first quarter), Thornton (inclined to over-play a shade now), Symon and Jenkins were other who caught my eye. Clyde’s greatest virtue was their pluck. And their greatest bloomer – trying to make Wallace a wing-half. Martin too, was comfortable as a guy wearing cotton Arthur Askeys! Still, the game was open (but not very wide) until the last kick, simply because Rangers couldn’t get the extra goal that would have confirmed their overwhelming superiority
Please consider making a donation to support our website and help us continue to provide valuable content and services.
The-Rangers-Archives-Logo-animated-reel

The Rangers Archives

crossmenu linkedin facebook pinterest youtube rss twitter instagram facebook-blank rss-blank linkedin-blank pinterest youtube twitter instagram