McPhail 25
J Smith 27, 44
Match Information
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Something approaching the real Rangers, this was. Would it be too fanciful to suggest that the Scottish Cup draw in mid-week has acted like a bugle-call, warning them that they must be up and doing? It must be noted, too that the substantial victory over Falkirk substantial both in score and on play was achieved by a Rangers team that lacked Gray, Kennedy and Main. McDonald made an admirable deputy for the evergreen Dougie and had Ken Dawson well under control all the time. Cheyne although opposed to Falkirks most dangerous forward in Carruthers, had quite a good afternoon, and with Simpson mopping up everything in the centre, rangers purely defensive work was pretty impressive. Dawson did all that he was called upon to do without blemish, his work including a brilliant save late on from a free-kick by Sneddon. Brown got through a lot of work, and McKillops play suggested that he is coming on well. Souter, however, was nit a success. He seldom made headway, and too often forced himself the necessity of crossing the ball with a weak left foot. The other Rangers forwards plated in fine style, with McPhail the inspiration of the line. He revelled in the heavy going, and there was danger whenever he got on the move. Smith, in the Falkirk goal, was not too confident, and allowed his namesake to snatch the second goal when he could have prevented a score by going more directly for the ball. Nisbet, Hamill and Shankly played stoutly against odds. They employed offside tactics too much, however, and were not unjustly punished when Smith, lying beyond the centre line, with the Falkirk defenders in the Rangers half, was allowed to go on to score the third goal. All three goals came in the last twenty minutes if the first half. McPhail, close in, snapped a chance following a corner-kick twenty-five minutes after the start. Smiths first goal followed two minutes later, while his second went on a minute before the interval. Rangers superiority was more manifest in the first half, but although Falkirk played somewhat better in the second, they never looked good enough to come anywhere in sight of a draw
