Match Pictures | Matches:1932 – 1933 | 1933 Pictures
Trivia
- Match reports confirm that Malky MacDonald and not Jimmy McStay played in this match.
- Jimmy McGrory with a hat-trick of headers, and Bertie Thomson, had Celtic in a four-goal lead before Alex Hamill (later of Blackburn Rovers) scored in 75 minutes, but the Fifer’s revival was temporary as Bertie Thomson scored his second five minutes later.
- By their victory, over St Johnstone at Perth on Saturday, Rangers went a stage nearer to regaining the Scottish League Championship.
- In England the big game of the day was at St. James Park where Newcastle beat Arsenal by 2-1 before 56,000 spectators. Arsenal still lead the league table as their nearest rivals Sheffield Wednesday also lost at Portsmouth by 3-0.
- The Jewish Board of Deputies met in London and passed a vote calling for a boycott of German goods following the recent anti-Semitic outbreaks in Germany. Notices were posted in Glasgow streets worded “Boycott German Goods”.
- Chancellor Herr Hitler has gone for a two day holiday—the first holiday he had permitted himself since he took over the reins of office at the end of January. Further Nazi appointments of provincial governors and chiefs of police have been made. It is reported that the police in Stuttgart searched about 200 houses and arrested 270 Communists, who were taken to an internment camp.
Review
Teams
COWDENBEATH:
Crosskey, McDonald, Moyes, Glancy, Adams, J Robertson, Hamill, Finlayson, Armstrong, Venters, A Robertson
Scorers:
Hamill.
CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, McGonagle, Wilson, Malky MacDonald, Geatons, Bertie Thomson, Alec Thomson, McGrory, Napier, Hugh O’Donnell
Scorers:
McGrory, McGrory, McGrory, Bertie Thomson, Bertie Thomson
Referee: W. Webb (Glasgow).
Attendance: 6,000
Articles
- Match Report (see end of page below)
Pictures
Articles
The Scotsman – Monday, 27th March 1933, page 14
CELTIC WIN AT COWDENBEATH
About 6,000 spectators attended the match at Cowdenbeath, where the Celtic recorded a good win over the local side by 5 goals to 1.
As the play went the victors were flattered by the big margin in their favour, although there was no doubt of their general superiority as a side.
Cowdenbeath had a good share of the play over the whole game, but there was a lack of method in their tactics as compared with the varied and studied moves of the Celtic men, who achieved the maximum results with a minimum of effort.
Cowdenbeath made a plucky struggle against odds. Many of their best efforts failed because the fortunes of the game ran against them, and the Celtic were often lucky in the way they blocked likely scoring shots.
There was no dubiety about the goals scored by McGrory, the Celtic’s centre forward, but there seemed even less doubt that R. Thomson, who got the other two, was in offside positions when he received the passes from which, he scored.
The Celtic played delightful football during most of an entertaining match, and their combination was of such a high standard that a severe strain was put on the Cowdenbeath defence.
The home men were outclassed as regards clever footwork, but they showed plenty of pluck and dash. Hamill scored their only goal when half an hour of the second half had been played.
Match Report – Herald (See Below)
Official Site – Celtic Graves Society
