1917-12-08: Celtic 3-0 Clydebank, League

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Trivia

  • In their first season since moving up from the Junior Division Clydebank rely to a large degree on English professionals deprived of their place of work due to the FA's policy of no professional football in England during the war.
  • The Glasgow Herald of Monday 10 December carries a report of the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in which he likened the temptations on the Glasgow street from women of the Magdalene Laundries as being a bigger threat to the lives of our gallant soldiers and sailors than the dangers of the battlefield. LINK
  • McCormick scores his one and only goal in his second match for Celtic, which was to also be his last game for Celtic.
  • The Herald also carries an advert for Caledon Motors of 98 Duke Street, Glasgow.
  • Again in the Herald is a report of 20,000 persons being homeless in a Canadian city following the Halifax Explosion when a ship in the port loaded with explosives blew up killing 2,000.

Review

Teams

CELTIC:

Shaw, McNair, McGregor, Dodds, Cringan, Brown, Jackson, Gallacher, McLean, McCormick, Browning
Scorers:
McLean, McCormick, Own Goal

CLYDEBANK:

McTurk, Laws, Ferguson, Walker, Shortt, Neish, Goldie, Brander, Bolger, Travers, Crook
Referee:
Attendance: 12,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

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Articles

The Glasgow Herald, Monday December 10, 1917
Clydebank failed to score against Clyde in their opening match, also against Celtic at Parkhead on Saturday. In the intervening 15 games the forwards of the new club have failed to draw blank, so their failures against the East-End clubs form a strange coincidence.