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Trivia
- Celtic & World War One
- Despite Celtic extending their unbeaten league run to 60 games the Glasgow Herald manages to see the negative side with their headling "Leaders Drop a Point" LINK
- Page 7 of Monday's Glasgow Herald carries reports of success for the cavalry at Ytres and tells of the retreating "Huns" destroying villages by dynamite as they retreated.
- The Herald also reports fighting in India against Mahsuds led by Mullah Fazl Din in which Major F Hughes of the South Waziristan Militia lost his life.
- On the home front the price of a four pound loaf of bread in Glasgow has been increased by one farthing to eleven pence, and some churches are growing potatoes in their graveyards to help the war effort.
Review
Teams
ABERDEEN:
Anderson, Colman, Calder, Cail, Brewster, Robertson, Paton, Walker, J Wyllie, Main, W Wylie
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Wilson, McStay, Brown, McAtee, O'Kane, McColl, McLean, Browning
Referee:
Attendance:8,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Monday 26 March, 1917
LEADERS DROP A POINT
The result of the League competition has been accepted as a foregone conclusion by those who imagined that Celtic would not have their fair share of team troubles, and that Rangers would continue to win or lose on their merits. However, on Saturday the leaders had an experience common to nearly every club compelled to make the long journey to Aberdeen; they had to find substitutes for their two most effective forwards, McMenemy and Gallagher and learn that Aberdeen will cheerfully surrender points to opponents of their own standing while reserving the right to make a special effort at home against the placed clubs. That explains how Celtic, Rangers and Morton have all failed in turn at Aberdeen this season, and gives Aberdeen good reason for claiming First League football after the war.