1914-11-14: Celtic 1-0 Third Lanark, League Division 1

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Trivia

  • Celtic & World War One
  • The Glasgow Herald of Monday 16th don't give a report of any of the football matches played on Saturday, reflecting perhaps their disapproval of wartime football.
  • The Herald's view on wartime football is shared by one particular contributor to the Letters page. Using the nom-de-plume Kitchener First. the scribe tells of his experiences while travelling on a train to Port Glasgow with ten young "fevered" men returning from Ibrox.
  • The Hi Hi have several English players in their ranks reflecting the trend of footballers from south of the border following their trade as the FA League programme is cancelled.
  • An Admiralty Closing Order has been placed on the upper Forth ports of Grangemouth and Bo'Ness. This measure is because foreign ships trading with these ports would have to pass HM Naval Base, Rosyth.
  • The Scotsman carries a report from The Couriere Colonial of Paris from a French NCO at Edea stating that German troops are employing barbaric methods in The Cameroons. The Frenchman reports how the Germans fight like savages, forcing natives carriers into service and disembowelling men women and children who refuse to do their bidding.

Review

Teams

CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, McGregor, Young, Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Crone, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorer:
McColl

THIRD LANARK:
Jimmy Brownlie, George F Lennon, George Gibb, Isaac Walker, Harry Swift, John Hannah, White, John Brown, James D "Snider" Smith, John William Smith, Harry W. Mountford

Referee: H. Humphrey (Glasgow)
Venue: Celtic Park
Attendance: 6,000

Articles

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Pictures

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Articles

The Scotsman, Monday 16th November, 1914

The match at Parkhead between the Celtic and Third Lanark attracted some 7,000 spectators.

Play all through was of a strenuous nature.

In the first half the visitors quite held their own, and had the forwards steadied themselves in front of goal Shaw would have been beaten on two occasions. J. W. Smith and Mountford both missing great chances.

In the second half there was no doubting the Celts’ superiority, and after a claim for a goal had been disallowed, McColl beat Brownlie from a penalty kick.

The Celts were strong in all divisions, with McNair, Young and McMenemy excelling. Brownlie, Lennon and Gibb were the strong men in the visitors’ team.