1938-03-19: Celtic 1-1 Third Lanark, League Division 1

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Trivia

  • Third Lanark stop Celtic winning thirteen league games on the trot with a goal by Alec Kinnaird, that equalised an early strike by Johnny Crum.
  • St. Bernard's caused an upset in the Scottish Cup when they defeated Motherwell at their Gymnasium Ground.
  • Kilmarnock drew the biggest crowd of the day at Somerset Park where Ayr visited on cup business. 27,442 spectators paid the normal admission charge of 1 shilling (adults) to bring in gate receipts of £1,102.
  • In England Willie MaFadyen (ex-Motherwell) scored for Huddersfield and Bob Finan (2) and Frank O’Donnell scored in Blackpool’s win over Leeds.
  • The King and Queen watched Scotland defeat England at Twickenham to give the Scots the “Triple Crown”. The match was televised live by the BBC and the police used an Auto-giro plane to assist in traffic/crowd control.

Review

Teams

CELTIC:
Kennaway, Hogg, Lyon, Lynch, Geatons, Paterson, Delaney, MacDonald, Crum, Divers, Murphy.
Scorers:
Crum.

THIRD LANARK:
McAffrey, Carabine, Johnstone, Blair, Barr, Black, Hart, Jones, Dewar, McLellan, Kinnaird.
Scorers: Kinnaird.

Referee: P. Craigmyle (Aberdeen).
Attendance:

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  • Match Report (see end of page below)

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Celtic v Third Lanark Mar 1938