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Trivia

• Jerry Dawson and Donald McKay catch the sports writers' eye.
  
• Chic Geatons according to the Glasgow Herald: "finest wing-half in the country" hurt his foot at work and will be missed in this game.
• Match switched from Parkhead to Ibrox to accomodate a crowd limited to 40,000 by wartime emergency regulations.
• Willie Maley announces to the press that he will retire in a few weeks.
• Celtic joint bottom of the league.
  

Review

Teams

RANGERS
Dawson; Gray and Shaw; McKillop, Woodburn and Symon; Waddell and Gilmour; Thornton, Venters and Kinnear.
Scorers:
Waddell.

CELTIC
McKay; Hogg and Morrison; Lynch, Lyon and Paterson; Gould, and MacDonald, Carruth, Divers and Murphy.
Scorers:
MacDonald

Referee: —W. Webb, Glasgow.
Attendance: 40,000 (Glasgow Herald 2 Jan states this is a war-time record)

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Articles

Preview from Glasgow Herald 1st January 1940