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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- John 'Pat' McCabe makes his competative debut for the Celts at outside-right.
- The Herald, not unusually at this period, gives a rather grudging report of Celtic's victory, but manages to get a dig in about a previous game against Queen's Park when a debatable penalty was awarded in the bhoys' favour.
- The Celtic FC site gives the outside-left as F. Kelly. Hamilton had a forward Dan Kelly at this time, but I can't find an F. Kelly.
- The case of the Fairfield Shipwrights is in the news. These workers were jailed under the Munitions of War Act, for seeking employment in another shipyard without the permission of their employers.
- Page 8 of The Glasgow Herald reports that Conscription may soon be introduced as there are insufficient men signing up for the front line as the initial euphoria and optimism in the early part of the war has been replaced by a more sober and pessimistic view.
- Page 12 of the Glasgow Herald gives a grim, Australian account of the action at Lone Pine in Gallipoli and the shock back in Aussie at the declaration by Lord Milner that we should evacuate all troops from the ill-fated campaign.
- Page 13 of the same newspaper gives casualty figures for the week of 228 officers and 6,134 men lost. LINK
Review
Teams
HAMILTON ACADEMICAL:
Watson, Robertson, A Miller, Purdie, McNamee, Paterson, Hanlon, Stewart, J Miller, Kyle, F Kelly
Scorers: Hanlon, Stewart
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young, Johnstone ,McMaster, McCabe, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorers: Gallacher, Young, McColl
Referee: R. T. Murray (Stenhousemuir)
Attendance: 14,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman, Monday, 18 October 1915
The largest crowd of the season congregated at Douglas Park, Hamilton – some 12,000 all told – but play for the best part of the game was too one-sided to interest anything but the partisan. The Celtic took the offensive from the outset; yet all went well enough for the Academicals till such time as their harassed defence gave way under Celtic’s worrying attack. Gallagher got rather an easy goal from a cross by Browning, and Young added a second before the interval.
When McColl got Celtic’s third count some fifteen minutes from restarting the visitors eased up, and after Hanlon had scored they could not get agoing in the old way, hard as they tried. A penalty kick was given against Young, from which Stewart scored Hamilton’s second goal, although Shaw saved the first try. There was a great struggle right till the end, and the Celtic had to play hard to avert the draw. Result: – Celtic, three goals; Hamilton Academicals, two goals.
The Glasgow Herald, Oct, 18, 1915
WON UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
Accidents that Kept McAtee out of the team and placed McMenemy practically out of the game at Hamilton gave the Academicals an opportunity of making history by being the first club to beat the champions this season. Unfortunately the occasion proved too much for the provincials, and they found themselves three goals in arrears at the end of an hour’s fairly interesting play. There was more bad feeling than good play, otherwise Shaw might have been given more work. As it happened he was twice beaten for the first time this season, once through a mistake of Dodds, and again when the referee did not take the defender’s view of the difference between a player striking the ball and the ball striking the player. Young the player in question, instinctively put up his hands to save his face, and lost a goal from the penalty that followed. However as he had previously scored from a free kick, there was nothing lost, and if there had been the Celtic might have been reminded of a similar incident at Hampden, when the home team, playing as they have not done since, were deprived of a thoroughly deserved point through an accidental handling of the ball being interpreted as deliberate, and deserving of punishment.