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Celtic Games 1889 - Everton

The Scotsman - Monday, 12th October 1889

Celtic v Everton – This important match came off at Parkhead before a crowd of 6000, in favourable weather. Gallacher was absent on the Celtic side, for whom Maley played. McCallum made his first appearance of the season. The game started bad for the Celtic, who were not seen in anything like their true form. Everton started off at a terrific rate, and for the greater part of the first half kept the ball in Celtic territory. In twenty minutes Geary in the centre put in a fine run, and with a swift shot scored a goal. In a few minutes more they were credited with a second goal – a very soft one. The play gradually settled into most pronounced coarseness. Everton being the chief offenders. At half time the score remained unaltered. In the second half the Celts gradually improved, and kept Everton well at their own end, but the really fine defence of Hannah and Doyle kept them out time after time. The tactics of the majority of the visitors was certainly not above suspicion, and the team as a whole left a very bad impression. No scoring took place in the second half, and Everton retired winners by two goals to nil.

Celtic – Goal, McLaughlan; backs Reynolds and McKeown; half-backs, Maley, Kelly, and Dowds; forwards, Madden, Coleman, Groves, Dunbar, and McCallum.

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