Match Pictures | Matches: 1938 - 1939 | 1938 Pictures

Trivia

• On the opening day of the season in England 800,000 people watched 44 games. Biggest crowd of 55,000 is at Arsenal v Portsmouth.
  
• Celtic suffer their first home defeat in the League since February 1937.
• Two charabancs carrying excursionists out for the day collied and overturn in Norfolk St, Glasgow injuring 36 people.
• Glasgow Corporation tramcar jumped the rails at St George's Cross Glasgow and crashed injuring 12 passengers.
  

Review

Teams

CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, Morrison, Geatons, Lyon, Paterson, Delaney, MacDonald, Crum, Divers, Murphy.
Scorers:
Delaney.

ABERDEEN:
Johnstone, Cooper, Adey, Dunlop, Nicholson, Thomson, Warnock, Hamilton, Armstrong, McKenzie, Strauss.
Scorers:
Hamilton, (2).

Referee: H. Watson (Glasgow).
Attendance: 23,000

Articles

• Match Report (see end of page below)
  

Pictures

• Match Pictures

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• Celtic & World War Two

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