Match Details

Rangers

1-2

Arsenal

Challenge Match

Ibrox Park

8 December, 1953

Rangers

Bobby Brown

George Young

John Little

Ian McColl

Duncan Stanners

Sammy Cox

Willie Waddell

Derek Grierson

Billy Simpson

Willie Thornton

Willie McCulloch

4

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Arsenal

Kelsey

Wills

Smith

Forbes

Dodgin

Mercer

Milton

Logie

Holton

Lawton

Roper

Match Information

Goals

McCulloch 22

Roper 51

Holton 58

Match Information

Manager: Bill Struth

Attendance: 68,000

Referee: J Cox (Rutherglen)

Matchday: Tuesday

Match Trivia

Opening of Ibrox Floodlights

Programme

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