Jimmy Quinn

The idol of the people a gentleman who spends his Saturday afternoons endeavoring to kick a leather ball into a net. If he is successful in his efforts the eighty thousand or so who look on are seen to assume a pleased expression.
The game might be made more exciting if all the players kicked in the same direction , as more goals would be scored, and , after all, goals are what the spectators want.  
The greatest names in history are those of napoleon, Gladstone and Jimmy Quinn- these three, and the greatest of these is Jimmy Quinn. If you don't believe me ask anybody in Parkhead. 

Jimmy Quinn played 331 first team matches for Celtic (1900-15), scoring 216 goals.
He won 8 Scottish  League titles and 5 Scottish Cup winner's medals.
He represented the Scottish league 8 times (7 goals) and the Scottish national team 11 times (7 goals).

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.