On This Day (October 16th)

[Sam English]

1875 - Rangers 7 (J.Campbell 3,Watson 2,Philips,P.Campbell) First Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers 0 - Scottish Cup 1st Round
After two friendly matches (against Vale of Leven and Helensburgh) Burnbank hosted it's first competitive match with a visit from the First Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers in the Scottish Cup.
1880 - Rangers 2 (Struthers,Angus) Queen's Park 2 - Friendly
1886 - Rangers 1 (Buchanan) Queen's park 4 - Friendly (7,000)
1897 - Clyde 1 Rangers 8 (A.Smith 3,Miller 2,R.C.Hamilton,Hyslop,J.McPherson) - Scottish League Division One (6,000)
1909 - Rangers 5 (Hunter 5) Hamilton Accies 1 - Scottish League Division One (9,000)
1915 - Rangers 0 Hearts 4 - Scottish League Division One (15,000)
1920 - Rangers 3 (Archibald 2,Cunningham) Partick Thistle 0 - Scottish League Division One (30,000)
1926 - Rangers 0 Queen's Park 1 - Scottish League Division One (19,000)
1929 - Rangers 4 (Fleming 3,Archibald) Celtic 0 - Glasgow Cup Final (Played at Hampden Park) (41,500)
Whilst the attendance for the replay was significantly down on the first match (41,500 as opposed to 74,399) those who did turn up were treated to Rangers' first trophy of the season and an emphatic 4-0 win thanks to a hat-trick from Jimmy Fleming and a single strike from Sandy Archibald.
1937 - Rangers 2 (Venters,J.Smith) Third Lanark 1 - Glasgow Cup Final (Played at Hampden Park) (39,699)
1943 - Rangers 1 (McIntosh) Hearts 3 - Southern League (15,000)
1948 - Rangers 2 (Williamson,Waddell) Celtic 1 - League Cup Section A (105,000)
The final group match of the League Cup,with the winners to progress to the next round,drew an astonishing crowd of 105,000 to Ibrox Park who witnessed a titianic struggle, with Rangers finally breaking the deadlock thanks to goals from Williamson and Waddell.
1954 - Partick Thistle 2 Rangers 5 (B.Simpson 2,Hubbard 2 1Pen,Grierson) - Scottish League Division One (35,741)
1965 - Hibernian 1 Rangers 2 (Willoughby 2) - Scottish League Division One (38,000)
1971 - Dundee United 1 Rangers 5 (A.MacDonald 2,Stein,Greig,Jardine) - Scottish League Division One (17,000)
1976 - Rangers 1 (A.MacDonald) Aberdeen 0 - Scottish League Division One (21,800)
1982 - St.Mirren 2 Rangers 2 (Bett,D.McKinnon) - Scottish Premier Division (12,121)
1993 - Rangers 2 (Huistra,Hateley) St.Johnstone 0 - Scottish Premier Division (41,960)
1996 - Ajax 4 Rangers 1 (Durrant) - European Champions League Group A (47,000)
Rangers crashed to their third straight defeat in the group stages of the European Cup with a 4-1 defeat in Amsterdam.Ajax were two up by half-time and stepped up a gear in the final ten minutes of the game,although Ian Durrant scored a late consolation effort.Ajax went on to reach the semi-finals of the competition before being beaten by Juventus
1999 - Kilmarnock 1 Rangers 1 (Van Bronckhorst) - Scottish Premier League (15,795)
2005 - Dundee United 0 Rangers 0 - Scottish Premier League (11,696)
2010 - Rangers 4 (Naismith,Davis,Miller,Weiss) Motherwell 1 - Scottish Premier League (44,609)

 

[yosser hughes]

1996 ,we had tickets in the ajax end, they all had wee flags to wave,but f@ck that if we were waving ours,there was a wee c@nt down near the front waving a tricolour trying to antagonize , the bears,and this was pissing off my mate, half time comes and he goes downstairs, to what we assumed was the toilet or food bar,next thing one of my other mates is pissing himself laughing and pointing down below, there"s the bold pedro trying to strangle the ajax fan with his tricolour,

 

[jaws73]

2010, we actually trailed 1-0 at half-time but 4 second half goals in a twenty minute spell gave us 8 wins out of 8 games and 24 points.

 

[ssblue]

2010 - On great form and heading for 3 in a row. Crowd therefore seems a little low?

 

[Damask_Rose]

1996 - I was young and still full of optimism from the 92/93 season, nàievly thinking we'd progress from the group stages. Wasn't till Advocaat arrived that we looked a force in Europe again.

 

[wee bud's pit boots]

1929 - The first stage of the Grand Slam.

 

[dh1963]

1948 our biggest ever home Cup tie attendance?

 

[Marvin Keep Believing]

1948 our biggest ever home Cup tie attendance?

Well spotted dh 1963. I dont know for certain, but crowds over 100,000 that I know of were the 118,567 against celtic in 1939, the one above, and we had 101,000 against Hibs in the 50's. There was 95,000 against Moscow Dynamo in 1945, and from memory I am sure there was 98,000 at Ibrox agaist celtic late 60's?

 

[tuc]

1993 - Rangers 2 (Huistra,Hateley) St.Johnstone 0 - Scottish Premier Division (41,960)

First game I had missed since 1980 due to wife going into Labour that morning, still managed to get my season ticket to someone on the bus

 

[stonewall Jackson]

That night in Amsterdam I was thrown out at the turnstiles because the small triangle at the corner of my ticket was missing. I later found it in my pocket the next day.

Had to get the train back into Amsterdam myself and spent the rest of the evening sampling the various pleasures of the Dam so wasn't all disastrous.