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Trivia
- As Celtic went on to win the league title by just 1pt,this result was to be pivotal in deciding the destination for the league title.
- The Glasgow Herald reports that the debate on ratification of the Treaty in Dial Eireann is likely to continue all this week. LINK
- The Glasgow Herald also reports that the Prince of Wales has arrived in Rangoon on the HMIS Dufferin and has been given a wonderful reception by all classes of people.
Review
The first Celtic v Rangers derby of 1922, played in a gusting wind, ends honours even.
Teams
CELTIC: Shaw, McNair, Dodds, Gilchrist, Cringan, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, McInally, Cassidy, McLean
RANGERS- Robb, Jamieson, McCandless, Meiklejohn, Dixon, Muirhead, Archibald, Cunningham, Henderson, Cairns, McDiarmid
Referee: P Craigmyle (Aberdeen)
Attendance: 60,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
Match report from The Scotsman, 3rd January 1922
[…] In the big game at Celtic Park, Glasgow, between Celtic and Rangers, 48,000 spectators witnessed a keenly-contested game, and interest was maintained to the end. Rangers were without Manderson, Jamieson (late Cowdenbeath) taking his place. A strong gusty wind interfered with play, and many well meant passes went astray. Both teams did remarkably well against the wind, and a draw was a fitting result. The Celtic held a slight balance in the first half, but the Rangers had the best scoring chances, Archibald, Henderson, and Cairns all missing easy openings. After the crossover Rangers were often in front of Shaw, who had many clever saves. Both defences did well, and were too strong for the opposing attacks. McNair and McCandless were outstanding.
The Glasgow Herald – 3rd January 1922
CELTIC V RANGERS
With the exceptions of Queen’s Park and Clydebank, all the Scottish League clubs in the First Division were engaged yesterday, and as had been the custom for some years, the fixtures were a series of local encounters. The big event of the day was again the annual encounter between Celtic and Rangers, and recent results and relative positions of the pair on the merit table indicated an encounter of traditional intensity. Fortunately after a storm of wind and rain on Sunday evening, that caused anxiety to the club officials, the weather was bright and bracing, and enthusiasts to the number of 60,000 thronged to Celtic Park. It is rarely that this historic meeting fails to begin or end with something out of the ordinary, but the feature was present yesterday at the start, only in a modified extent, Rangers taking the field without their well-known back, Manderson, for whom Jamieson, of the Reserves, deputised – a trying ordeal for a youth in his first entry into League football. The debutant was one of the outstanding successes in a game that was characterised by determined, keen football, and which properly ended with the honours divided. In point of combined play, and subtle movement, the display has often been surpassed by these two great rivals in opposition, but the game was interesting and arresting throughout, and held the big crowd’s attention till the end, notwithstanding the fact that neither side scored. The outstanding personalities were the respective goalkeepers, Robb and Shaw, and the least prominent, strange to say, the rival centre forwards, Henderson and McInally. The game was fought all through in admirable spirit, and the behaviour of the crowd, the ground arrangements, and police regulations combined to make the function a gratifying success.
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