Dr Marshall 35
English 37
English 86
Match Information
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: W.G. Holborn (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Rangers will do for a start. Dundee will have to do better. The difference between the teams was in quickness of execution and in general understanding. In both respects the winners were well ahead. The pace was too fact for Dundee. The Dens Parkers were slower all over, but the size and strength of their defence helped them. Almost all the time, however, they were playing second fiddle. Yet they were unlucky not to open the scoring. Had they succeeded with the elusive move of Gavigans and Craigies shot which hit the post, we should have seen a closer tussle, though Rangers superiority at half-back and forward would have told in the end. Of course, everybody had more than one eye on the two centre-forwards. Lint-locked English was a favoured boy. He was plied with the ball from all directions and, though at first disposed to part with it too quickly, he caused the Dundee defence a lot of anxiety by his quickness in darting this way and that. He went for everything, high and low clearly a gentleman who requires a lot of watching. It was from one of his headers and a rebound of Marsh that Marshall got his chance to open the scoring after 36 minutes. When English headed the second goal after McPhail had placed the ball beautifully to him the crowd cheered him heartily. Nicholson shot the third goal 20 minutes after the restart, when he took the ball with his left foot before it touched the ground from Archibalds centre. Then Craigie headed one for Dundee very cleverly, and English nodded home Rangers fourth from Nicholsons centre. It was a good day for English, but not so good for Craigie, who had nothing like the same support. Besides, Meiklejohn was always on his track, although the Dundonian had the best of it when he scored his goal. He took both the Ibrox captain and Hamilton by surprise. In the first half, when the wind was not so troublesome as it afterwards became the Rangers, half-backs kept the ball low and played well with their forwards, but there was a lot of purposeless booting of the ball in the second half. Marsh, though losing four goals, was the man of the Dundee team. Brown and Gilmour kicked strongly. Blyth, I liked at half-back because he carried a shot. McCarthy and McNab were not agile enough for the opposition. Robertson forced the play best of the Dens Park forwards, but the line did not hang together. Troup could make little of Gray, who was sound all through. In constructive work Rangers half-backs excelled in the first half only. Nicholson has to get used to McPhails moves, and he can only do that by playing alongside him. The inside-left was on his game, while on the other flank, Marshall and Archibald were something of a wing.
