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Trivia
- The Glasgow Herald report of this game in Monday's paper rates Falkirk's Englishman, Jock Simpson as the greatest living inside forward. Thankfully for Celtic his days at this position are over and in the twilight of his career he is at centre forward.
- The Glasgow Herald reports war casulties for last week of 175 Officers, 2704 Men. LINK
- A letter in the Glasgow Herald questions the result of the Plebiscite on Prohibition taken in Clydebank which purported to show that citizens of the town favoured prohibition by a margin of 4 to 1.
- Also in the Herald is a report of the preliminary trial of Lieutenant Douglas Malcolm who shot his wife's lover, a Russian Pole four times while the man was lying in bed. Malcolm, heir to a Scottish Jute fortune was later cleared of murder by a jury. LINK
Review
Teams
FALKIRK:
Allan, Scott, Trialist, Harvie, Comrie, James McMillan, Murphy, Croal, Simpson, Main, Shearer
Scorer: McMillan
Celtic:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Wilson, McMaster, Brown, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl, McMenemy, Browning
Scorer: McAtee, McMenemy, Gallacher
Referee:
Attendance: 6,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Monday 27 August 1917
AN AUSPICIOUS REAPPEARANCE
Third Lanark were rather easily defeated by the cosmopolitan eleven that represented Rangers at Ibrox. It was expected that the Queen’s Park centre of last season would give way to Brown, late of Dundee, but it was another soldier player who ousted McDermid, and Cunningham therefore justified what seemed a risky experiment. Thence to the finish the 3rd Lanark were outplayed. McLean received no assistance from his wings, and derived little satisfaction from his two goals.
McMaster’s inclusion in the Celtic eleven at Falkirk may have been a precautionary measure, but as such was not viewed by the other players. Unmindful of check on the same enclosure last season, the Champions refused to take their opponents seriously, and the loss of an early goal merely led their forwards to get into closer touch with Allan before shooting. The veteran goalkeeper had distinguished himself by repeatedly saving long-range drives from Browning, Dodds, and Gallagher, but were given no opportunity by the last-mentioned player after a characteristic run and was helpless against a placed ball from McMenemy and a fast cross-drive from McAtee. Simpson made only a moderate centre forward for the losers. He exhibited neither the dash nor the penetration that mark him as the finest living outside forward, and there was a strange lack of adaptability in all he attempted considering his wide experience of football on both sides of the Border. His success was of a negative nature; he unsettled McMaster and Dodds to the extent of putting both right off their game, but McNair, imperturbable as ever, refused to be hustled, and only once was Shaw’s charge in danger.