1914-09-19: Hibernian 1-1 Celtic, League Division 1

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Trivia

  • Celtic & World War One
  • The Scotsman man-of-the-match, "Sniper" Jim McColl, saves the points for Celtic in 75 minutes, a full hour after Hibs had taken an early lead through Chicago-born American winger Bobby Wilson.
  • Last match for Henry Jarvis, his first game for 18months.
  • The match-of-the-day was at Ibrox where Hearts beat Rangers 2-1 in front of a crowd of 40,000.
  • The Glasgow Herald reports of the gallant actions by the Clyde-built former Cunard liner Carmania, now an auxiliary cruiser in what later became known as the battle of Trindade.
  • The news of the death of General Delarey<sic> the Boer War veteran is announced in the Scotsman.

Review

Teams

HIBERNIAN:
Allan, Girdwood, Templeton, Kerr, Paterson, Grosart, Wilson, Lennie, Hendren, Fleming, Smith
Scorer: Wilson

CELTIC:

Shaw, McNair, McGregor, Young, Dodds, Jarvis, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorer: McColl

Referee: T. Dougray (Barrhead)
Date: September 19th 1914
Venue: Easter Road
Attendance: 14,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

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Articles

The Scotsman, Monday 21 September, 1914.

Considering the possibilities which the Celtic front rank appeared all through to be capable of, the Hibernians did well at Easter Road, Edinburgh, in dividing the honours of what, taken all in all, was a scrappy game.

The Hibernians have shown a partiality this season for drawing their matches. Once the home players had beaten off a stubborn attack in the game’s early stages, they invaded in force, and it was in keeping with the subtlety of their movements that an opening should ultimately have been found, Wilson running over and scoring from close in after a cross by Smith.

The latter all through played a versatile game, although his centres suffered on numerous occasions from want of accurate placing. Allan, the home custodian, got a lot of work to do, and did it well, but, not withstanding his vigilance, he was beaten by McColl, after the Celtic centre had rushed the backs.

McColl was the best player engaged, and it would have been surprising if at least one of the many raids he led had not been successful.

There were 12,000 spectators persent.

Glasgow Herald, Monday, 21 September 1914

CELTIC TEAM DIFFICULTIES

The Celts found the usual difficulty in getting goals at Easter Road, and may be said to have done well in dividing the points with McMaster and Johnstone on the injured list, and the reconstructed half-back line further weakened by the withdrawal of Dodds to outside left following an accident at a critical part of the game.

Templeton and McNair were the mainstays of their respective sides in defence, the dashing methods of the former proving as effective, if not so spectacular, as the uncanny subterfuges of the Celtic veteran when in difficulties.

Though losing a point as compared with last season, the visitors were doubtless well pleased to so much as score on a ground which has often witnessed their discomforture.