S Archibald >45
J Smith
Match Information
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: A Edward (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
Perhaps the Rangers have obtained no more satisfying victory all season than this. There were peculiar reasons why they should want to succeed, some of then known to everybody. In the first half, the Light Blues had the breeze behind them and could not score. More than that, the Morton forwards had given a few glimpses of such sterling ability that on turn-round promised all the savoury things for Cappielow. The wind, however moderated considerably, and well the Rangers forwards seized their chance, and before the other fellows could work up a game the points were in the Ibrox pocket. Five minutes after the restart, Archibald, who had played a bad first half, was tearing through like a scorer when he was upended inside the box. He converted the penalty, and a few minutes later Smith - what a good lad to be a reserve – got the second goal by sheer pertinacity and cleverness. Archibald smashed on the third goal after another tearing run, but I thought Henderson, who played the ball just before the Fifer, should have been given offside. Afterwards, Morton cracked up forward, Robb was in Easy Street, for his half-backs were great tacklers, and Manderson and Jamieson did not make a mistake. Bowie never played better, and Cairns could not have worked harder if he had been playing for a kingdom. Everybody was talking about young Smith’s dashing clever game on the left. I feel certain we did not see the best of Morton. They were rattled a bit, apparently, and only the defense stayed the course. But in the first half McNab and French and McKay were very clever. Gourlay remained the best of the halfs-backs, if only for his brainy anticipation and the passes he slipped through to French
