On This Day (April 26th)

[Sam English]

1879 - Vale of Leven turned up at First Hampden Park for the Scottish Cup final replay with Rangers,sadly,there was no sign of Rangers,for all the players were enjoying a day out at Ayr Racecourse and thus fulfilling their threat not to appear for the replay as they claimed to have had a perfectly good goal ruled out in the first meeting.Vale of Leven were therefore awarded the trophy by default.
1887 - Shettleston 2 Rangers 4 (Untraced) - Friendly
1889 - Rangers 1 (Oswald) Blackburn Rovers 1 - Friendly
1893 - Rangers 2 (Kerr,A.McCreadie) Sunderland 6 - Friendly (5,000)
1897 - Rangers 2 (Untraced) Dumbarton Athletic 1 - Friendly
1902 - Dumfries select Xl 3 Rangers 5 (Robertson 2,Untraced) - Friendly (4,000)
1909 - Rangers 2 (Bennett,McPherson) Queen's Park 3 - Scottish League Division One (1,000)
1911 - Stirlingshire Juniors 0 Rangers 0 - Friendly
1913 - Rangers 2 (Goodwin,Bennett Pen) Falkirk 1 - Scottish League Division One (16,000)
1921 - Rangers 0 Newcastle United 0 - Tommy Cairns Benefit Match (30,000)
1924 - Airdrieonians 0 Rangers 0 - Scottish League Division One (8,000)
1930 - Cowdenbeath 3 Rangers 2 (McPhail 2) - Scottish League Division One (2,500)
1941 - Rangers 0 Third Lanark 3 - Southern League (5,000)
1943 - Rsngers 0 Clyde 1 - Southern League
1947 - Manchester City 2 Rangers 1 (Thornton) - Friendly (47,570)
The visit of Rangers to Maine Road for a friendly match drew a crowd of 47,570.
1948 - Rangers 2 (McPherson,Cox) Clyde 1 - Scottish League Division One (5,000)
1954 - Hibernian 2 Rangers 2 (Grierson,Paton) - Scottish League Division One (17,300)
1958 - Rangers 5 (Murray 3,Brand 2) Aberdeen 0 - Scottish League Division One (15,000)
1969 - Celtic 4 Rangers 0 - Scottish Cup Final (Played at Hampden Park) (132,870)
1975 - Rangers 0 Airdrieonians 1 - Scottish League Division One (65,000)
1976 - Celtic 0 Rangers 0 - Scottish Premier Division (51,000)
1980 - Rangers 2 (Jardine Pen,McLean) Dundee United 1 - Scottish Premier Division (19,000)
1986 - Aberdeen 1 Rangers 1 (McMinn) - Scottish Premier Division (17,000)
1994 - Motherwell 2 Rangers 1 (McCoist) - Scottish Premier Division (14,000)
2007 - Evidence of a conveyor belt of talent beginning to emerge from Auchenhowie was thrust under the spotlight as Rangers trounced Celtic 5-0 in the Scottish Youth Cup final at Hampden Park. Andrew Shinnie got Rangers off to a flying start with the opener in four minutes before Steven Lennon grabbed a hat-trick and skipper Dean Furman rounded off the scoring. It was an emphatic win for the young men in blue and a result that Celtic coach John McLaughlin described as 'embarrassing'.
2014 - Rangers 3 (Aird, Peralta,Shiels) Stranraer 0 - Scottish League One (46,093)
2016 - Livingston 1 Rangers 0 - Scottish Championship (5,021)

 

[Taki]

2007 - How many of those players went on to have decent careers in the game? Shinnie did well. Fleck did well. Always thought Furman should have been given a chance with us.

 

[yosser hughes]

1975 this was our last game of the season after finally winning the league after the mentally challengeds 9 in a row.. like a great deal of our gala days things went flat on the park ,,we lost in front of a sell out Ibrox crowd,, but the title was back at Ibrox and so a good summer could be had,,roll on season 1975-76 got a feeling that will be even better

 

[Lanark Bear in the NE]

2007 - How many of those players went on to have decent careers in the game? Shinnie did well. Fleck did well. Always thought Furman should have been given a chance with us.

Correct. I watched Furman play at Peterhead a few years later in pre season, he was the stand out player that evening

 

[yosser hughes]

2007 - How many of those players went on to have decent careers in the game? Shinnie did well. Fleck did well. Always thought Furman should have been given a chance with us.

was a very pleasant Wednesday night, putting the mentally challengeds to the sword at any age group is always a great feeling

 

[uddingstonbluenose]

2007 - How many of those players went on to have decent careers in the game? Shinnie did well. Fleck did well. Always thought Furman should have been given a chance with us.

The following played for the first team (varying appearances and time): Scott Gallacher, Ross Perry, Andrew Shinnie, Dean Furman, Jordan McMillan, Jamie Ness, John Fleck, Steven Lennon, Andrew Little.

Ness seems to be having quite a good season with Plymouth this year.

 

[Taki]

The following played for the first team (varying appearances and time): Scott Gallacher, Ross Perry, Andrew Shinnie, Dean Furman, Jordan McMillan, Jamie Ness, John Fleck, Steven Lennon, Andrew Little.

Ness seems to be having quite a good season with Plymouth this year.

Perry was horrendous in the first team. Now at Brechin, I see. Incredible drop. Ness looked a class act in the first team. Shame about his injuries and that he didn't stay. I understood why the likes of Davis didn't fancy dropping to the Third Division but it was a great opportunity for the likes of Ness and Fleck. They didn't see it that way.

 

[KA1960]

1975- John Greig on a chariot pre match, with an accordian band as the half time
The board knew how to entertain us in these days!

 

[Dumbartonblue]

1975-my first ever match. Went home greetin cause we lost.

 

[jimbear]

1975 - the game itself was flat but the important thing was that we would pick up the League Championship trophy at the end of it. My abiding memory from that day is of the bus journey to the game on the Bridgeton Cross Loyal. The bus had been waiting in a traffic queue for about 10 minutes to turn off the Govan Road when I noticed that the driver had a rather large flagon of cider on his left arm and was taking quite a swig from it. My interest in this spectacle heightened considerably, however, when the bus started to move forward and turn a corner with its driver still quaffing from the said flagon of cider with his remaining hand on the steering wheel. It's not something that you see too often these days,

 

[Talktalk]

1975- John Greig on a chariot pre match, with an accordian band as the half time
The board knew how to entertain us in these days!

There was some amount of battling with bottles flying overhead and cans of pish spraying everywhere while flying past.