Holiday Match

The Glasgow Herald 02.01.95

The cutting above appears in the excellent Celtic Wiki
This was the first New Years Day meeting between the Glasgow rivals.

Hibernian 1902

The 1902 Scottish Cup Final was due to be played at Ibrox on 12th April, but due to the tragic Ibrox disaster the match was delayed until the 26th . The venue was changed to Celtic Park, giving Celtic home advantage in the final, though curiously only 16,000 attended. Hibernian won the match 1–0 through a 75th minute goal from Andy McGeachan.

GK	Harry Rennie*
RB	Archie Gray*
LB	Robert Glen*
RH	Bernard Breslin*
CH	Jimmy Harrower
LH	Alex Robertson*
OR	Johnny McCall
IR	Andy McGeachan
CF	John Divers*
IL	Paddy Callaghan *
OL	Bobby Atherton **
	Manager: Dan McMichael

* Scottish international
** Welsh international

Jimmy McGrory

Jimmy McGrory was Celtic's leading scorer for 12 seasons. 
McGrory scored 56 hat-tricks in the Scottish League and Scottish Cup.
He scored a total of 550 goals in 547 appearances in all competitions for Celtic and Clydebank*.
In his career he only took 3 penalties, and failed to score with 2 of them!
It's remarkable that McGrory was only capped 7 times by Scotland.

	League		Cup		Other		International
	Games	Goals	Games	Goals	Games	Goals	Games	Goals
1922-23	3	1	1
1923-24*	30	13
1924-25	25	17	8	11	2	3
1925-26	37	36	6	6	6	6
1926-27	33	47	6	9	2	2
1927-28	36	48	6	6	3	9	1
1928-29	21	21	6	10	4	3
1929-30	26	32	3	4	3	2
1930-31	29	36	6	8	2	1	1	1
1931-32	23	28			3	2	2	2
1932-33	25	22	8	8	3	2	2	3
1933-34	26	17	3	1	1	1	1
1934-35	27	18	4	2	1
1935-36	32	50	1		1
1936-37	25	18	8	9
1937-38	10	5			1	1

*1923-24 season on loan at Clydebank

The British League Cup 1902

To be the Champion of Britain was, as we have seen, the equivalent of being the Champion of the World. The domestic football of England and Scotland was without equal well into the 20th century.
From the 1870s onwards there were showdowns between English and Scottish clubs , both formal and informal, and then in 1902 a tournament called The British league Cup was played.
Unfortunately this was not the grand championship that it might have been. The tournament was set up by Glasgow Rangers as a fundraiser for victims of the Ibrox Disaster. The trophy Rangers donated was the £100 Exhibition Cup that they had won by beating Celtic at the Glasgow International Trade Fair the previous year. 

The four teams that took part in the British League Cup were the League Champions and runners up from the recently ended domestic season in England and Scotland, namely Sunderland, Everton, Glasgow Rangers and Celtic.

The Football League Div. 1 1901-02
		P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Sunderland	34	19	6	9	50	35	44
2	Everton	34	17	7	10	53	35	41

The Scottish Football League Div. 1  1901-02
		P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Glasgow Rangers	18	13	2	3	43	29	28
2	Celtic	18	11	4	3	38	28	26

30.04.02- Celtic 5 Sunderland 1
Played at Ibrox, attendance 4,000

Celtic	Sunderland
Edmond	E. Doig
Watson	Annan
Battles	Watson
Loney	Ferguson
Marshall	McAllister
Orr	Jackson
Livingston	W.Hogg
McDermott	R.Hogg
Campbell	Miller
McMahon	Gemmell
Quinn	McLatchie

Billy Hogg was the only Englishman in the Sunderland team. Both sides were considered to be below full strength and receipts of £100 were taken. 

01.05.02- Everton 1 Glasgow Rangers 1.
Played at Goodison*, attendance 8,000.

Everton	Glasgow Rangers
G Kitchen	M Dickie
G Eccles	N Smith
J Watson	J Drummond
S Wolstenholme	N Gibson
J Blythe	B Neil
W Abbott	J Stark
J Taylor	J Graham
J Brearley	J Robertson
A Young	R Hamilton
J Bell	J Miller
T Dilly	A Smith

20 minutes of extra time was played.

03.05.02-  Glasgow Rangers 3 Everton 2
The replay was held at Celtic Park. Four of the Rangers players from the first match were absent, as they were playing in the international at Villa park that day (this was the 'replay' of the Ibrox game at which the tragedy occurred) the players were Nicol Smith, Drummond, Robertson and Alex Smith. Everton's Jimmy Settle appeared for England.


17.06.02- Celtic 3 Glasgow Rangers 2
The final was played at Cathkin park on 17.06.02- This was the day of The Coronation of King Edward VII.  A crowd of 12,000 turned out. The takings were reported as being '£265 at the gate and £49 at the stands'- the total raised by the 4 matches was £900.

Celtic		Glasgow Rangers
McPherson	GK	Dickie
Watson	FB	N.Smith
Battles	FB	Crawford
Loney	HB	Gibson
Marshall	HB	Stark
Orr	HB	Robertson
Crawford	F	Lennie
Campbell	F	Walker
Quinn	F	Hamilton
McDermott	F	Speedie
Hamilton	F	A.Smith

Jimmy Quinn

Celtic's Jimmy Quinn scored 3 goals in the final. 

*Some sources state that this match was played at Celtic Park- a report in The Edinburgh Evening News (02.05.02) makes it clear that this was not the case.