1938-02-05: Celtic 4-0 Arbroath, League Division 1

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Trivia

  • All of Celtic's goals were scored in a fifteen minute period either side of half time. Crum had a hat trick.
  • Five of Glasgow’s six clubs were beaten on Saturday, Celtic being the exception, while their greatest rivals were beaten 6-1 by Dundee and were said to have been lucky to keep the deficit down to five.
  • The third British Empire Games opens in Sydney, Australia before a crowd of 40,000.
  • David Cockburn (Leith Victoria) was Scottish boxing champion for two seconds on Saturday night before the announcer amended his decision saying the judges had made a mistake and the decision was reversed and given to A. B. Dobbin (Anderson A. B. C.).
  • Herald pictures show the new Cunarder taking shape at John Brown’s shipyard, Clydebank.

Review

Teams

CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, Morrison, Geatons, Lyon, Paterson, Lynch, MacDonald, Crum, Divers, Murphy.
Scorers:
Divers, Crum, (3).

ARBROATH:
Robertson, Fordyce, Becci, Adams, Gavin, Duff, Adam, McInally, Milne, Devlin, Thomson.

Referee: W. Wilson (Glasgow).
Attendance: 10,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

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Celtic v Arbroath Feb 1938