1916-02-26: Celtic 3-0 Dundee, League

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Trivia

  • Celtic & World War One
  • The Glasgow Herald, Page Nine reports LINK there has been a large number of men seeking work in the mining industry who are believed to be doing so to avoid conscription into the armed forces, which is imminent with the enactment of the Military Service Act.
  • The Glasgow Herald report of Celtic's game also alludes to the abandonment of full time football training as footballers seek jobs in industry to have induced listlissness in the Celtic forwards, no theories for similar lethargy in the Dundee team were expounded.
  • Also reported in the Herald is news that the crews of ships captured by the German raider Moewe have been landed at Tenerife but the captain, and two members of the Clan MacTavish have not been liberated as they operated the guns of that ship against the Moewe.

Review

Teams

CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Young,Johnstone, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorers: McColl; (2), Dodds

DUNDEE:
Fraser, Ernest Ferguson, Patrick Burns, Robert A. McIntosh, David (Roy) McDonald, Robert M. D. Duffus, William Fisher, McCulloch, Brown, Steven, Troup

Referee: G. Matthews (Greenock)
Attendance: 10,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

Articles

The Glasgow Herald, Monday 28th February 1916
WANING AND WINNING
It may be said of the Celtic that they were a waning and a winning team against Dundee. Much of the old forward skill was in evidence, sufficient at least to mystify three most resolute half-backs, but there was a lack of pace and virility, a listlessness at goal, that told of abandoned training, of trades resumed. Yet even when favoured with the wind Dundee were no match for opponents who had to depend upon craft for success, and in the closing stages the visitors were completely outplayed.