1917-10-13: Celtic 2-3 Kilmarnock, League

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Trivia

  • Monday's edition of the Glasgow Herald can hardly contain its joy at Kilmarnock's victory which puts them top of the League. LINK
  • Monday's Herald also carries an advert for State Express 555 cigarettes which are it is said "a genuine inspiration in cigarette flavour, fragrance and bouquet", and they are cheap too at 6/3 (31.5 new pence) per 100.
  • The letters section of the Herald has opposing views on the wages of merchant seamen which has been increase to £11 per month.
  • Page 8 of the Glasgow Herald reports that 100 Dublin Metropolitan policemen raided a training camp of Irish Volunteers at Whitehall and arrested 37 men.
  • Also on Page 8 the Herald has a Reuter's report praising the great economic work being done by Belgium in the Congo, and details rail transport infrastructure to carry out gold, copper, rubber etc.

Review

Teams

CELTIC:

Shaw, McNair, Livingstone, McMaster, Cringan, Brown, McAtee, Gallacher, McColl , Browning, McLean
Scorers: Gallacher, McLean

KILMARNOCK:
Blair, Hamilton, Mitchell, Henderson, Goldie, Mackie, Fulton, Smith, Culley, Rutherford, McPhail
Scorers: McPhail; (2), Smith

Referee:
Attendance: 18,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

  • Match Pictures

Articles

The Glasgow Herald Monday Oct 15, 1917
KILMARNOCK LEAD
In pre-war days Port Glasgow Athletic, St Mirren, and other provincial teams attained a measure of fame and greatness by inflicting an essential defeat of the League champions at Parkhead, but until Saturday no provincial club could lay claim to two consecutive away victories over Celtic. None was so consistent against a club which had been above all things consistent rather than brilliant, as evidenced by the series of four and six consecutive League championships. Kilmarnock were the first and only team to win at Celtic Park last season; they are again the first, but probably not the last, to defeat the present champions on their own ground. There was excuse for a defeat suffered in the last engagement but one of an arduous campaign; none for the latest reverse at this early stage, even after making every allowance for the enforced absence of two such experienced players as McMenemy and Dodds. Kilmarnock proved on Saturday that confidence goes a long way to ensure success in football, as in most undertakings. McPhail’s contempt for McNair’s reputation was symptomatic of the winner’s tactics. The Celts were not viewed by them in the light of past and present champions but as opponents they had already defeated, and therefore fit subjects for a second reverse. If psychology and professional football have anything in common, Kilmrnock’s victory can be easily realised and appreciated by those who were not at Parkhead. The majority of the spectators were confident from the beginning that in the visitors they saw the winning team. The Ayrshire forwards showed delightful skill and abandon in all they attempted; the half-backs were always masters of the disjointed pack opposed to them, the full-backs were seldom in difficulties, and the custodian, if once slightly at fault and at other times saved by his goalposts, gave a characteristic display of fearless saving. By their victory Kilmarnock take first place on the League table – a position one would wish them to occupy at the end of the season, since the team is the result of judicious selection.