Linwood 12, xx
A Venters 28, 79, xx
Stead 31
Duncanson 48
Yorston 59
McNee 75
Thornton
Thornton
A Venters
Linwood
Match Information
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: H Watson (Glasgow)
Matchday: Saturday
Match Trivia
This was the daftest game . . . For most of it, Rangers were fighting against the collar a collar that was obviously a size too small for them. With fifteen minutes to go, they were a goal behind at 3-2. Inside a further ten minutes, the score was Rangers 6 St Mirren 3. Four goals they rammed home, and a final score by Linwood completed the day. St Mirren fans just couldnt believe it. They would waken up and find themselves comfortably stowed in the fireside chair the game had been postponed like previous ones! But no. The hysterical delight of the Ibrox supporters drummed their ears. It had happened all right. Paisley folk had reason for mystification. Their fellows had singed Rangers whiskers most of the game. At times, the Light Blues were amazingly outplayed by the rubber-heeled Caskie, the boy-with-a-mission Stead, and the eel-like Yorston. These lads could keep their feet and the ball. At the interval the score was 2-1 for Saints flattery to Rangers. Shortly afterwards level again through Duncanson. Then Yorston probed a third home and Paisley was threading its wat to victory. The more so when they got a penalty kick. Brady had to be retaken as a Rangers player had moved. Crivens, Brady this time banged it past! Rangers hitched their pants, Saints found themselves scrambling where previously they had been ambling. The play got a bit tough. Rangers started to throw their weight about rather freely. And in the last quarter came lightning goals from McNee, Venters, Thornton and Venters again. Saints should have won easing up. They lost cracking up. Rangers played a weird game. A couple of hairpins was all they were worth with fifteen minutes to go. After that they initiated a permanent wave towards the enemys goal! Caskie was the miracle midget for Saints. Dougie Gray got so many dummies he must have thought himself in Madame Tussauds. Stead also was brilliant at times. Linwood full of thrust. Yorston, bright first-half and near the end of the game. Brady did nothing very much. The halves were all big men until Rangers turned on the heat. Well, heat has a reducing effect! Craven was easily the best back afield with Logan a close second. Dawsons anticipation saved Rangers. Cowan in place of Shaw, made up for a timorous start. Symon, the best and games half-back. Waddell, the raider, without a feed. Duncanson, ill at ease. Thornton, a real genius at making something out of nothing. Venters, losing his little temper many times, but a grand player. McNee, in really good form. But that Ibrox bus must have passed a dozen black cats! Brady missed a twice taken penalty in 61 minutes
