Gillick 53
Harrison 64
Fiddes 75
A Venters 85
Match Information
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: unknown - to be confirmed
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
No complaints? None from me. This was a match, areal live affair, which did the losers as much credit as the winners. The Academicals must have keyed themselves up for a challenge and they made one good and plenty. In the end, Rangers won well, but they were on the stretch all the time. Hamiltons goal had some lucky escapes, and that point in the game made the Rangers victory all the move deserved, but no one could grudge a team a bit of luck that could contribute such a big portion to the entertainment. A level first half found defence on top there was no scoring at the interval. But Rangers forwards found a game, and eight minutes after the restart Gillick, from an acute angle and while stretched on the ground, jabbed the ball into the net after Morgan had pushed it out in saving. But the Academicals were not accepting defeat. They fought back in great style and in seventeen minutes Harrison weaved his way through and beat Dawson with a rising shot. It was exciting after this thrills at both ends and the crowd roaring. Then Rangers went ahead again, after half-an-hour. Their forwards went through in a body. Fiddes shot and Wallace, in trying to clear, put the ball past Morgan. Still the Academicals fought it, but a bonnie Venters goal five minutes from the end settled it. Venters goal would console him for failure to convert a penalty in the first half. He was the man of the Ibrox attack, just as Harrison was the mainspring in the Hamilton front. Fiddes hit it off well at outside right, especially in second half. The others in the attack were uneven a mixture. Rangers half-backs were tested because the Academicals played close on to them, and could get the pass away, but the defect was that Wilson had not his old sharpness in thrusting through. Of course there was Simpson in the way. Dawson and his backs came well out of it. So did Morgan and his backs, while the Academical half-backs each played a mans part. Reid was difficult to hold. The left was the better Hamilton wing
