S Archibald 2
J Smith pen 30
Match Information
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Peter Craigmyle (Aberdeen)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Not so easy for Rangers. True enough, they held the whip hand for long spells and might have scored oftener than they did but for the dour defending of the Cowdenbeath rearguard, but there was always a fight in those Fifers, and you did not know what they would do in their fleeting forays. In Venters they had one of the most artistic and cunning forwards afield. Repeatedly he swung the game round by falling back, gathering the ball and taking it ahead under control. Try as he might, Renfrew could not elude McDonald, whose strength and anticipation were just too much for his rival. Robertson was not brought into the game as he should especially in the first half. A grand tackler and accurate kicker, Priestly put in a tremendous amount of work in the Cowdenbeath middle line and mark you, he had an arduous task in watching the non-stop dashing Smith. No back compared with Gray. Dougies interventions and judgment in his returns could not have been improved upon. The Ibrox half-backs never lost touch and were always there when the forwards required the extra punch. In two minutes, the champions were ahead. A typical Archibald thunderbolt from a seemingly impossible angle did the trick. Another goal fell to them after half-an-hour. When Hoing in on Dudgeon, Archibald was held by Priestley, and from the resultant spot-kick Smith flashed the ball home. The third arrived a few minutes before the interval, McPhail seizing a chance when a Fife defender miskicked, and smashing the ball behind the helpless keeper. Hardly had they got going again when Venters, standing fully thirty yards out, released a ferocious shot. Dawson was taken by surprise, and though he partially stopped the ball he saw it spin up, hang in the air and then squirm behind him
