1920-03-13: Queen’s Park 1-2 Celtic, League Division 1

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Trivia

  • It's a goalscoring debut for Johnny McKay as Celtic, without some star names who were participating in an international between Scotland and Ireland played at Celtic Park on the same day, scrape a narrow victory against Queen's Park at Hampden.
  • In the international match between Scotland and Ireland before a crowd of 42,000 at Celtic Park the home side ran out comfortable 3-0 winners with all three Celts receiving praise in the Glasgow Herald. LINK
  • On page 12 of the same edition of the Herald it is reported that the RC Bishop of Cork launched a vigourous defence of the police while on page 11 the RC Bishop of Derry launches a scathing attack on the Home Rule Bill and what would become known as gerrymandering.
  • Adverts in the Herald include one for the New Savoy cinema in Hope St., where The Way of a Man with a Maid a 1918 American silent movie is showing, starring Bryant Washburn

Review

Teams

QUEEN'S PARK:

Hunter, Steel, Young, Cameron, McKenzie, Roberts, Bob Morton, Kinloch, Fyfe, McAlpine, A. Smith Anderson
Scorer: Fyfe

CELTIC:

Scorers: McKay, Cassidy

Referee: R. J. Kelso (Glasgow)
Attendance: 25,000

Articles

  • Match Report (see end of page below)

Pictures

  • Match Pictures

Articles

Match report from The Scotsman, 15th March 1920

[…] Both the Queen's Park and the Celtic had representatives in the International match at Celtic Park that necessitated changes for the game at Hampden. The home team had A. Smith Anderson deputising for A. L. Morton, and the visitors McStay for McNair, McKay for Gallagher, and Cassidy for McMenemy. The Queen's pressed at the start, and had the better of the exchanges in the first half, but feeble finishing prevented them making good their advantage. The Celtic opened the scoring through McKay, but Fyfe equalised just on half-time. The Celtic had more of the game after the resumption, and after half an hour's play Cassidy gave them the lead. There was no further scoring. Weak finishing was apparent on both sides, and many chances were missed. The attendance would be about 25,000.