B McPhail 30
English 57
Match Information
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: T Dougray (Burnside)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
I dont know you dont - whether Rangers and Kilmarnock will contest the Scottish Cup final. If they do, the match will not be more teethy than this one was. Believe me, Kilmarnock were bothering about the points. They might have been running for the championship from the way they set about their job. Kilmarnock were a good team, up against a better. Rangers held the winning card at half-back, and the forwards could not help responding. In the second half, more should have come of the pressure, but both Fleming and Marshall were finishing poorly. It was a rousing first half. Kilmarnock opened in the jauntiest style, and Connell, in the first minute, might have given them the lead from point-black range. Hamilton did well to get the ball round the post. But the longer the game went on the more clearly could you see Rangers getting their noses in front. English had the ball in the net and was properly given offside through no fault of his own but because Nibloe stepped out just in time when McPhail was about to give the pass. English was going through when he received a blow on the side, and immediately following the restarting of the play, after a little delay, Meiklejohn was brought down. It was from this free-kick that Rangers opened the scoring half-an-hour after the start. Gray placed the free-kick and McPhail first met and took the ball in with his breast and then shot into the roof of the net. Nibloe got a word from the referee shortly afterwards, and then English scored again, but the ball was brought back for a free-kick against Kilmarnock close on the penalty line. It looked as if Rangers were to have a hard job winning. Kilmarnocks forwards had a bright spell while McPhail was off injured quite accidentally, and Gray and McAulay and the half-backs were on the stretch. The best goal of the three was the second, scored 12 minutes after the restart. Meiklejohn, over on the left, sent over to McPhail, who gave to Morton, who beat Leslie and centred for English, close in, to beat Bell. Rangers played some fine, swinging football after, but Kilmarnock never gave in, and so it was three minutes from the end before the third goal came. English was racing through when Nibloe brought him down, and Marshall, taking the free-kick, scored direct. Except that Fleming failed with some fine openings in the second half, and Marshalls left foot let him down, there was scarcely a flaw in the Rangers team. Meiklejohn and Brown were great wing half-backs, and Simpson kept clever boy Maxwell pretty much in the shade. Kilmarnock have balance, and it was not until midway through the second half that they shows signs of wavering at half-back, which of course, reacted on the forwards. Bell saved well, and Leslie was a splendid right-back. All the half-backs played the right game until they became unsettled. The forwards knew hoe to combine, and it was only the positional play of the Rangers half-backs that beat them.
