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The Scotsman - Monday, 16th January 1928, page 5
SCORING EXTRAORDINARY!
Giving a wonderful exhibition on a heavy ground the Celtic at home swamped Dunfermline Athletic. The visitors, who had numerous changes from the previous week, and were without Wilson, Williamson, and Stein, were never in the running, and only two or three times during the game did their forwards get the length of testing Thomson, the Celtic goalkeeper. It was a painfully one sided game, and it was only the extraordinary scoring performance of M'Grory the Celtic centre-forward that maintained the interest of the crowd, which did not number more than 3000. Before ten minutes had gone M'Grory had put on three goals, and after that the clever Celtic wingers, although often in scoring positions themselves unselfishly placed the ball to the centre, who was in deadly shooting form. As a result, M'Grorv first equalled the record of R. S. M ‘Coll, L M'Bain and D. Brown, and then went on to establish a now First Division League record of eight goals in a match. Ho had four in each half, and got a hearty cheer on leaving the field. Thomson had the other Celtic goal. Dunfermline Athletic's display must surely have, been their poorest of the season. While saving well on many occasions, Harris should have kept out some of the scoring shots, but his backs and half-backs did not give him a great deal of help. T. W. Dickson and J. Dickson showed cleverness at times, and might have caused more trouble had they been properly supported.
SCORING EXTRAORDINARY!
Giving a wonderful exhibition on a heavy ground the Celtic at home swamped Dunfermline Athletic. The visitors, who had numerous changes from the previous week, and were without Wilson, Williamson, and Stein, were never in the running, and only two or three times during the game did their forwards get the length of testing Thomson, the Celtic goalkeeper. It was a painfully one sided game, and it was only the extraordinary scoring performance of M'Grory the Celtic centre-forward that maintained the interest of the crowd, which did not number more than 3000. Before ten minutes had gone M'Grory had put on three goals, and after that the clever Celtic wingers, although often in scoring positions themselves unselfishly placed the ball to the centre, who was in deadly shooting form. As a result, M'Grorv first equalled the record of R. S. M ‘Coll, L M'Bain and D. Brown, and then went on to establish a now First Division League record of eight goals in a match. Ho had four in each half, and got a hearty cheer on leaving the field. Thomson had the other Celtic goal. Dunfermline Athletic's display must surely have, been their poorest of the season. While saving well on many occasions, Harris should have kept out some of the scoring shots, but his backs and half-backs did not give him a great deal of help. T. W. Dickson and J. Dickson showed cleverness at times, and might have caused more trouble had they been properly supported.
