Dick
Borland
Moffat
Missed Penalties
McCandless pen miss
Match Information
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: A Allan (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Remarkable! That is the word best suited to the Rangers-Hamilton Accies match at Ibrox yesterday. By winning 4 to 1 the Acas certainly provided the sensation of the day. Not since season 1906-7 has the Douglas Park Club registered a victory at Ibrox Park. They were not expected to do so yesterday, but the did – a remarkable performance. When one considers the small amount of the game in which the Acas played the role of attackers the result is still more remarkable. The game can be summed -up by stating that for eight-five minutes Rangers hammered the Hamilton defence and scored only one goal. During the other five minutes the Acas’ attack succeeded in getting withing shooting distance of the Ibrox goal and netted four times. Excitement was rife in the second half especially, when rangers, a goal down, exerted every effort to get the equaliser. We saw Referee Alan surrounded by a clamouring group of Rangers’ players claiming, unsuccessfully, that during a desperate raid the ball had been over the Hamilton goal-line. Following a quiet spell, then the Hamilton players had a wordy argument with Mr Allan when he granted a penalty kick for a visiting defence using ‘hands’, failed to convert the spot-kick. But let us get to the game in general. When Dick accepted a neat header from Gibson and scored with a slanting drive after a quarter of an hour’s play, the crowd and the players themselves must have been astonished. Rangers had done all the pressing up till then. They continued to press, but, hey presto! Another breakaway on the Accies’ left gave Borland his chance, and Rangers were two down. Ere half-time Muirhead took toll for Rangers – a clever and deliberate goal. Now Rangers will come along, though everyone. They restarted as they left off – hammering, beating and racking the Acas’ defence. But always a blindly-thrust foot or a falling body kept the Ibrox shots from the right spot – the net. Sensations Again! Away the Acas broke, loose strung, and unlikely to move far. But Moffat wriggled through somehow, essayed a snap shot. Three for Hamilton! Bewildered by this state of affairs, Rangers kept their heads so far, and then faltered a trifle through over-anxiety to score. But again they came, and in the gathering gloom the ball could be seen bob-bob-bobbing in the Acas’ goalmouth, then over the bar by inches, past the post – anywhere but into the net. Hamilton’s lucky star shone brightly. It blazed suddenly when a wild clearance reached Dick – an ex-Ranger – and the centre carried on to complete the Light Blues’ downfall. Pathetic it was! And this remarkable game ended with Rangers sweeping to attack against a dour, wild-kicking defence. Reputations were not badly damaged in the encounter, but few were enhanced. The Accies’ defence was lacking in strategy and haphazard in clearing, with the exception of McCormack. The ex-Third Lanark man was very virile and clever. Frankly, the others were outplayed by Rangers’ van, and in front only Gibson, Borland and Dick showed craft and dexterity. Gibson, I place first, but Dick’s goal showed him an opportunist. Rangers’ defence was sound, but I fancied Tom Hamilton showed bad anticipation when the third goal was scored. Six shots he was called on to deal with. Four beat him. Meiklejohn was the pick in the middle, and forward, Cairns and Muirhead were best. The former had the vilest luck on several occasions. McCandless missed an 85th minute penalty
