On This Day (April 20th)

Sam English

Sam English

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1878 - Rangers 2 (Hill, James Campbell) Nottingham Forest 0 - Friendly
Earlier in the year Rangers had visited Nottingham Forest and won 2-1,now it was their turn to play hosts. Goals from Davie Hill and James Campbell enabled them to complete the double over the English side.
1887 - Whitefield 1 Rangers 3 (Lawrie, Cameron, McKenzie) - Friendly
1889 - Rangers 2 (Muir, Dickie) Nottingham Forest 0 - Friendly
1895 - Clyde 1 Rangers 1 (A.Smith) - Friendly
1897 - Leicester Fosse 1 Rangers 1 (Gibson) - Friendly (2,000)
1898 - Celtic 3 Rangers 2 (McPherson, R.C.Hamilton) - Glasgow League (5,000)
1901 - Queen's Park 1 Rangers 3 (Sharp 2, Campbell) - Inter-City League (11,000)
1904 - Queen's Park 1 Rangers 1 (Untraced) - Friendly (Played at Barrhead)
1907 - Rangers 3 (Livingstone 2, Speirs) Kilmarnock 0 - Scottish League Division One (2,500)
Jimmy Gordon made his debut for Rangers at half-back.. Born in Saltcoats he had originally played for Renfrew Victoria before joining Rangers and went on to become an outstanding member of the side that won five League titles, although he never managed to collect a Scottish Cup winners medal. He was capped for Scotland on 10 occasions, also appearing in a number of Victory internationals at the end of the First World War. He died in 1954 at the age of 66.
1908 - Rangers 2 (Noble, May Pen) Dundee 0 - Scottish League Division One (12,000)
1911 - Rangers 3 (Reid, Bennett, Smith) Third Lanark 1 - Scottish League Division One (10,000)
Rangers' 2-1 victory over Third Lanark confirmed them as League Champions for the sixth time in their history and ended Celtic's run of six consecutive titles.
1912 - Rangers 0 Woolwich Arsenal 0 - Friendly (12,000)
1914 - Abercorn 2 Rangers 1 (Stewart) - Friendly
1916 - Rangers 2 (Duncan, Branscombe) Dumbarton 2 - Scottish League Division One (3,000)
1918 - Rangers 3 (Hart 2, Cairns) Partick Thistle 1 - Army & Navy War Relief Fund Shield Quarter-Final (16,000)
1929 - Aberdeen 2 Rangers 2 (Archibald, Morton) - Scottish League Division One (18,000)
1932 - Rangers 3 (Fleming, McPhail, English) Kilmarnock 0 - Scottish Cup Final Replay (Played at Hampden Park) (105,695)
With Alan Morton again absent through injury, Jimmy Fleming found himself in the Rangers line-up for the Scottish Cup final replay. It was he who opened the scoring after just 10 minutes, a goal which served to settle Rangers and they added further goals through Bob McPhail and Sam English to claim their seventh Scottish Cup Final victory.
1935 - Rangers 2 (J.Smith 2) Hamilton Accies 1 - Scottish Cup Final (Played at Hampden Park) (87,740)
Whilst Celtic had been the first Scottish side to complete the domestic double of League and Scottish Cup, a feat they had achieved three times before Rangers had registered their first, the initiative had passed to the men from Ibrox. The double had been won in 1928,1930 and 1934 and Rangers therefore stood on the brink of accomplishing the first ever back-to-back double. A crowd of 87,740 were at Hampden to see the feat achieved thanks to two goals from Jimmy Smith.
1940 - Queen's Park 2 Rangers 3 (Smith, Little, Venters) - Scottish Regional League Western Division (20,000)
1946 - Stenhousemuir 1 Rangers 4 (Duncanson 2, Arnison 2) - Victory Cup 1st Round 1st Leg (4,903)
1953 - Motherwell 0 Rangers 3 (Paton 2, Young Pen) - Scottish League Division One (30,720)
1963 - Raith Rovers 2 Rangers 2 (Baxter, Millar) - Scottish League Division One (11,000)
1968 - Kilmarnock 1 Rangers 2 (Persson, Willoughby) - Scottish League Division One (17,286)
1974 - St.Johnstone 1 Rangers 3 (Fyfe 2, Young) - Scottish League Division One (7,500)
1977 - Rangers 4 (Johnstone, A.MacDonald, Parlane, Robertson Pen) Motherwell 1 - Scottish Premier Division (8,000)
1985 - Morton 0 Rangers 3 (McCoist 3) - Scottish Premier Division (7,000)
1991 - St.Mirren 0 Rangers 1 (S.Robertson) - Scottish Premier Division (18,473)
1995 - Kilmarnock 0 Rangers 1 (Mikhailichenko) - Scottish Premier Division (16,086)
1996 - Motherwell 1 Rangers 3 (McCall, Andersen, Gascoigne) - Scottish Premier Division (13,128)
2008 - Rangers 1 (Novo Pen) St.Johnstone 1 (After Extra Time) (Rangers won 4-3 on Penalties) - Scottish Cup Semi-final (Played at Hampden Park) (26,180)
2013 - Rangers 1 (McCulloch) Peterhead 2 - Scottish Football League Division 3 (43,961)
2016 - Hibernian 3 Rangers 2 (Holt, McKay) - Scottish Championship (12,231)
2019 - Hearts 1 Rangers 3 (Defoe, Jack, Katic) - Scottish Premiership (18,212)
 
1991- An acrobatic effort from Sandy Robertson to give Walter Smith a vital first win.
 
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Can you get 2 more wildly different occasions in the history of one club than 1935 and 1913?
 
2008: Steven Naismith's first major knee injury that day. Sure Chris Burke got injured as well which put him out for the season, Thomas Buffel made a rare appearance.

2013: Templeton missed an absolute sitter just before their equaliser, terrible day.

2016: McKay thunderbastard just days after his one against Celtic. Shouldn't have lost this one, created lots of chances and lost soft goals. Typical Warburton performance looking back.

2019: Glorious sunshine in Edinburgh, could have had 5 or 6
 
1968 - when our game finished at Rugby Park that day word came through that that mob was drawing 1-1 with Morton at Parkhead and some of our supporters went onto the pitch to celebrate as that would have put us back in pole positionto win the title on the following Saturday. Unbeknown to us, the referee at Parkhead played several minutes added on time and Bobby Lennox literally scored with the very last kick of the game. It was absolutely gut wrenching for us.
 
jimbear said:
1968 - when our game finished at Rugby Park that day word came through that that mob was drawing 1-1 with Morton at Parkhead and some of our supporters went onto the pitch to celebrate as that would have put us back in pole positionto win the title on the following Saturday. Unbeknown to us, the referee at Parkhead played several minutes added on time and Bobby Lennox literally scored with the very last kick of the game. It was absolutely gut wrenching for us.
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Bud, I thought it was Morton were leading 1-0 and Lennox as you say equalised with the last kick of the ball.
 
Bleedsroyalblue said:
2008: Steven Naismith's first major knee injury that day. Sure Chris Burke got injured as well which put him out for the season, Thomas Buffel made a rare appearance.
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Can't remember the name but St J had a thug defender that laid it on Naismith that day. Dreadful foul not even a booking
 
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