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Trivia
- Facing Celtic at inside-left in this match was James ‘Tec’ White who later played for a New York Yankees team that played Celtic in friendlies, on their USA/Canada tour. On 30 May 1931at Fenway Park the Yankees won 4–3, but on 28 June at Yankee Stadium, Celtic won 4–1
- On 15 April 1922 when Morton were beating Rangers in the “roughest ever Scottish Cup final”, Celtic consolidated their position with a 2-0 win over Albion Rovers at Coatbridge, and then on the Holiday Monday, Patsy Gallacher scored twice and Joe Cassidy once to beat Partick Thistle. This mean that Celtic with one game to play were five points ahead of Rangers who still had three to play. Rangers duly won their two games in hand, which meant that it all came down to the last day of the season, 29 April. Celtic were at Morton, and Rangers were at Clyde, and Celtic were a point ahead.
- The Glasgow Herald LINK reports of the troubles between the two factions of republicanism in Ireland and in particular that of obstructions put in the way of Mr Griffiths who attended a meeting in Sligo.
- The same edition of the Glasgow Herald sees a stout defence of RC schools in the Letters section after previous letters attacked the provision of seperate schools.
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Attendance: 10,000
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Match report from The Scotsman, April 17th 1922
[…] At Coatbridge a crowd of about 10,000 gathered for the Albion Rovers v. Celtic game. A high cross wind affected the play considerably. The Rovers had it behind them in the first half, in the course of which Shaw’s goal was frequently under fire, and twice luckily escaped from Bennie, whose first shot struck the foot of the post when Shaw was out of position.Gallagher scored a fine goal for the Celts before half-time; and in the second portion Macfarlane added a second. A feature of the game was the sterling defence of the Celtic against the keen, striving Rovers, who, though not so clever, were ever on the lookout for a score, and none more so than John White, who was the best man on the Rovers’ side. Latterly the craft of the Celtic attack was very apparent, but their shooting weak, Cassidy, Macfarlane, and McLean on different occasions got past the Rovers’ backs, and failed to score. McNair, Gilchrist, Dodds, and Shaw were almost invincible.
The Glasgow Herald – Apr 17, 1922
CELTIC’S PROGRESS
The League engagements were reduced to seven in number, but though curtailed, the competition maintained its interesting aspect. The Scottish Cup final claimed Rangers, but the League leaders, Celtic were able to make further progress towards the completion of their fixtures. Their opponents were Albion Rovers, and as the game took place at Coatbridge, it was generally recognised that the leaders had a stiff proposition. Albion Rovers have been uniformly successful for two months in the competition, and, with the exception perhaps of their forthcoming meeting with Morton, this was looked upon as Celtic’s most serious obstacle. The Parkhead club’s chances were not improved by the absence through injuries to Cringan and McInally, yet they succeeded after a keen struggle in winning by 2 goals to 0. The play of the leaders was skilful and polished, and generally of a nature that left the impression that the Parkhead team were capable of their purpose – the winning of the League Championship. Celtic have now completed 40 games for 64 points, as against Rangers’ 38 games for 59 points, so that relatively they are one point in advance of their rivals. The remaining games are against Partick Thistle (today at Celtic Park) and Morton at Greenock, and if they win both encounters, which they seem capable of doing, the Championship is assured to them, even should Rangers win outright their remaining four games, and achievement that is improbable, in view of the wearing experience of the Ibrox team in the Cup competition.
Albion Rovers impressed at the start, the Celtic goal being several times in danger. Celtic afterwards attacked, but were driven back and kept on the defence for a spell. The first half had almost gone when Gallagher beat Kerr. The visitors had the better of the exchanges until the interval, but were unable to add to their score. With the wind advantage Celtic played a fine game in the second half, when McFarlane gave them a second goal, Albion Rovers failed to score.