1905-01-28: Dumfries 1-2 Celtic, Scottish Cup

Match Pictures | Matches: 19041905 | Pictures: 1904-05 Pictures

Trivia

  • Dumfries would become Queen of the South, and the game was played not at Palmerston Park.
  • Henry McIlvenney's final match for Celtic.
  • Played at Eastfield Park on a spring like day before a crowd supplemented by the boys from St Joseph's College, Dumfries. (The Dumfries team are not Queen of the South, as we now know them). Goalkeeper Strachan was in magnificent form, and when the local team went ahead just after half-time, Celtic "trembled", but goals by Quinn and Bennett saw Celtic through to the next round.

Review

Played at Eastfield Park on a spring like day before a crowd supplemented by the boys from St Joseph's College, Dumfries. (The Dumfries team are not Queen of the South, as we now know them).
Goalkeeper Strachan was in magnificent form, and when the local team went ahead just after half-time, Celtic "trembled", but goals by Quinn and Bennett saw Celtic through to the next round.

Teams

Dumfries:
Strachan, Cunnigham and Young; Nivison, Kirkpatrick and Gillespie; Dysart, McFarlane, Johnston, Wilson and Lavery
Scorers:Dysart 46,

Celtic:
Adams; Mcleod, Orr; Young, Loney, Hay; Bennett, Somers, Quinn, McIlvenny, Hamilton.
Scorers: Quinn 50, Bennett 83

Referee: Mr Guthrie. Kilmarnock
Attendance: 3,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

  • Match Pictures

Articles

" The Celtic party, including directors Mclaughlin, Glass, McKillop, manager Maley, and a few friends left St Enoch at 11 am on the day of the match."
"The boys of St Joseph's College were early on the ground to take the greater part of the stand accommodation."
"In the goaless first half Celtic had 44 minutes of the play, and then, before Adams could realise what was on, Dumfries had the ball in the net to do in half a minute what Celtic could not do in the previous 5. But Quinn equalised and Bennett had the ball in the net again seven minutes from the end."