On This Day (November 6th)

[Sam English]

1875 - Havelock 4 Rangers 0 - Friendly
1880 - Rangers 5 (Pringle 2,Struthers 2,McIntyre) Hibernian 1 - Friendly
1886 - Dumbarton 5 Rangers 5 (Lawrie 3,Buchanan,Untraced) - Friendly (2,000)
1897 - St.Mirren 1 Rangers 5 (Turnbull 2,Low,McPherson,Hamilton) - Scottish League Division One
1909 - Partick Thistle 0 Rangers 0 - Scottish League Division One (30,000)
1915 - Queen's Park 0 Rangers 6 (Cairns 2,Cunningham 2 1Pen,Fleming,Duncan) - Scottish League Division One (14,000)
1920 - Rangers 5 (Henderson 4,Archibald) Dundee 0 - Scottish League Division One (43,000)
1926 - Rangers 4 (Morton 2,Craig,Fleming) Cowdenbeath 1 - Scottish League Division One (15,000)
1937 - Rangers 4 (Smith 2,venters 2) Kilmarnock 1 - Scottish League Division One (12,000)
1943 - Albion Rovers 1 Rangers 5 (McIntosh 2,Johnston,Gillick,Waddell) - Southern League (4,000)
1948 - Rangers 2 (Thornton,Gillick) Hibernian 4 - Scottish League Division One (50,000)
1954 - Rangers 6 (B.Simpson 2,Brand 2,Paton,Hubbard Pen) Kilmarnock 0 - Scottish League Division One (40,000)
Although the 1954-54 season was to see Rangers finish up empty handed as far as major trophies were concerned, there were still a number of exceptional performances to saviour. The six goal win over Kilmarnock was one of the best of a campaign that saw them maintain a title challenge until the New Year.
1965 - Rangers 3 (McLean,Henderson,Markie OG) Falkirk 0 - Scottish League Division One (18,000)
1971 - St.Johnstone 1 Rangers 4 (Johnston 3 2pens,A.MacDonald) - Scottish League Division One (20,000)
1982 - Rangers 4 (J.McDonald 2,Dalziel 2) Motherwell 0 - Scottish Premier Division (17,000)
1993 - Kilmarnock 0 Rangers 2 (I.Ferguson,Huistra) - Scottish Premier Division (19,162)
2013 - Rangers 3 (McCulloch pen, Daly,Mohsni) Dunfermline Athletic 1 - Scottish League One (43,082)
2016 - Ross County 1 Rangers 1 (Hill) - Scottish Premiership (6,590)

 

[The Meik's Crombie]

1971 : other than the Willie Johnston hat trick, my main memory of this game was the St. Johnstone keeper, John Donaldson, completely losing the plot. I don’t know if there had been a bit of “banter” with unidentified Rangers players but he was responsible for at least one of the penalties and was lucky to stay on in an era where there was no automatic sending off for keepers guilty of giving away a penalty. I thought we had three penalties that day too but can’t remember if Donaldson saved one.

 

[Sam English]

1971 : other than the Willie Johnston hat trick, my main memory of this game was the St. Johnstone keeper, John Donaldson, completely losing the plot. I don’t know if there had been a bit of “banter” with unidentified Rangers players but he was responsible for at least one of the penalties and was lucky to stay on in an era where there was no automatic sending off for keepers guilty of giving away a penalty. I thought we had three penalties that day too but can’t remember if Donaldson saved one.

From memory, we did have 3 penalties, Donaldson saving one with Johnston netting the rebound

 

[The Meik's Crombie]

That will be the reason Sam. Cheers