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Trivia
- There is a Celtic debut for John Brodie, who signed for the Celts in 1916 from his hometown club Dumbarton Harp and would later move to Chelsea.
- Croy bhoy Andy McAtee is missing as he had to attend a tribunal which reversed his reserved occupation as a coal-miner and drafted him into the army.
- Page 8 of Monday's Glasgow Herald has an article about Lord Haldane and his meetings with the Kaiser before the war including the Kaiser’s meeting with the King about the Bagdad railway. LINK
- An article in the same edition of The Herald by Philip Gibbs entitled "Cheerful Tommy" paints a picture of fun amid the slaugther at the front.
Review
Teams
CELTIC:
Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Wilson, McMaster, Brown, McLean, McMenemy , McColl, Brodie, Browning
Scorer: McColl; (3).
CLYDE:
Shingleton, Thorpe, Farrell, Daly, Cowan, Forrest, Morris, G Watson, Rae, McGoan, Shimmons
Scorers: Shimmons, Rae
Referee:
Attendance: 12,000
Articles
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Pictures
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Articles
The Glasgow Herald, Monday 3rd September 1917
The meeting of Celtic and Clyde was not the least interesting of a number of local encounters. Clyde were at full strength, and Celtic had to find substitutes for Gallagher (injured) and McAtee (engaged before a recruiting tribunal, which by the way, decided to release him from his employment in the mines for service with the colours).
As Clyde were among the few teams to gain a point at Parkhead last season, they were quietly confident of repeating the feat or possibly improving upon it. Their forwards began as if determined to justify the confidence felt and expressed by the Shawfield contingent, and a bad mistake by Shingleton that made Celtic’s first goal a veritable gift did not unnerve them.
Unfortunately they discovered that a very special effort is required to discount a Celtic lead. First Shimmons and then Rae put them on level footing only to find McColl score the winning point five minutes from the end. As the Celtic centre forward had already twice got the better of Shingleton, the result was a personal triumph for the successor of McLean, who was adding to a reputation gained at Parkhead and enhanced at Preston and Sheffield by scoring four goals against Queen’s Park.