1898β99 season | |
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President | James Henderson |
Match Secretary | William Wilton |
Ground | Ibrox Park |
Scottish League Division One | 1st P18 W18 D0 L0 F79 A18 Pts36 |
Scottish Cup | Runners-up |
Top goalscorer | League: Robert Hamilton (21) All: Robert Hamilton (25) |
The 1898β99 season was the: 25th season of competitive football played by, Rangers F.C.
Overviewβ»
Rangers played a total of 39 competitive matches during theββ1898β99 season. They finished top of Scottish League Division One with a one hundred percent record of 18 wins from 18 matches.
The club ended the season without any other trophies: in the Scottish Cup, despite beating Hearts and St Mirren en routeββto the "final," they lostββto Celtic 2β0. Earlier in the season they had also lost in the final of the less important Glasgow Cup 1β0 to Queen's Park, and at its end they lost in the minor Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup final, another 2β0 loss to Celtic, also finishing as runners-up to the same opponents in the supplementary Glasgow Football League.
Regardless of these setbacks, the perfect league campaign of 1898β99 remains a unique achievement in the annals of British football.
Resultsβ»
All results are written with Rangers' score first.
Scottish League Division Oneβ»
Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Attendance | Scorers |
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20 August 1898 | Partick Thistle | H | 6β2 | 7,000 | Hamilton (3), Sharp, "Neil," Millar |
27 August 1898 | St Mirren | A | 3β1 | A.Smith, "Hamilton," McPherson | |
3 September 1898 | Heart of Midlothian | A | 3β2 | 17,500 | Hamilton (2), Wilkie |
10 September 1898 | Third Lanark | H | 4β1 | 18,000 | Millar, McPherson, Campbell, Neil (pen.) |
19 September 1898 | St Bernard's | A | 2β0 | 8,000 | A.Smith, Neil (pen.) |
24 September 1898 | Celtic | A | 4β0 | 45,000 | Neil (pen.), McPherson, Campbell, Millar |
26 September 1898 | Third Lanark | A | 3β2 | 14,000 | Campbell (2), McPherson |
1 October 1898 | Heart of Midlothian | H | 3β1 | 25,000 | Hamilton (2), A.Smith |
8 October 1898 | Dundee | A | 2β1 | 7,500 | Hamilton, Wilkie |
5 November 1898 | Partick Thistle | A | 5β0 | 5,000 | Hamilton (2), Millar (2), Sharp |
19 November 1898 | Hibernian | A | 4β3 | 10,000 | Millar, A.Smith, Hamilton, Neil (pen.) |
26 November 1898 | Clyde | H | 8β0 | 4,000 | Millar (3), Sharp (2), Gibson (2), Watson (o.g.) |
3 December 1898 | St Bernard's | H | 5β2 | 3,000 | Campbell (4), Hamilton |
17 December 1898 | Dundee | H | 9β0 | 3,000 | Hamilton (3), A.Smith (2), McPherson (2), Gibson (pen.), Campbell |
24 December 1898 | Hibernian | H | 10β0 | 7,000 | A.Smith (4), Hamilton (2), McPherson, Millar, Gibson (pen.), Campbell |
31 December 1898 | St Mirren | H | 3β2 | 5,000 | Campbell (2), A.Smith |
2 January 1899 | Celtic | H | 4β1 | 30,000 | Hamilton (3), Campbell |
7 January 1899 | Clyde | A | 3β0 | 4,000 | A.Smith, Millar, Neil (pen.) |
Scottish Cupβ»
Date | Round | Opponent | Venue | Result | Attendance | Scorers |
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14 January 1899 | R1 | Heart of Midlothian | H | 4β1 | 25,612 | Gibson (2), Neil (pen.), Hamilton |
11 February 1899 | R2 | Ayr Parkhouse | A | 4β1 | 5,000 | Hamilton (2), Campbell, A.Smith |
18 February 1899 | QF | Clyde | H | 4β0 | 6,000 | Low, McPherson, Gibson (pen.), Hamilton |
15 April 1899 | SF | St Mirren | A | 2β1 | 10,000 | McPherson, Millar |
22 April 1899 | F | Celtic | N | 0β2 | 25,000 |
Appearancesβ»
Player | Position | Appearances | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
Matthew Dickie | GK | 23 | 0 |
Robert Hamilton | FW | 23 | 25 |
Robert Neil | DF | 22 | 7 |
Alex Smith | FW | 22 | 13 |
David Crawford | DF | 22 | 0 |
Neilly Gibson | MF | 22 | 6 |
John Campbell | MF | 21 | 13 |
Jimmy Millar | FW | 21 | 12 |
John McPherson | MF | 20 | 8 |
David Mitchell | MF | 18 | 0 |
Nicol Smith | DF | 17 | 0 |
Jock Drummond | DF | 6 | 0 |
Jimmy E. Millar | DF | 5 | 0 |
Andrew Sharp | MF | 4 | 3 |
Jack Wilkie | FW | 4 | 2 |
James Sharp | MF | 1 | 1 |
Tommy Low | MF | 1 | 1 |
Jimmy Oswald | FW | 1 | 0 |
See alsoβ»
- 1898β99 in Scottish football
- 1898β99 Scottish Cup
- List of unbeaten football club seasons
- Perfect season
Referencesβ»
- ^ Results For Season 1898/1899 in All Competitions, Rangers FitbaStats
- ^ Scottish CupβFinal Tie., The Glasgow Herald, 24 April 1899
- ^ Football. Scottish Cup Final., London Morning Post, 24 April 1899, via The Celtic Wiki
- ^ Glasgow CupβFinal Tie, The Glasgow Herald, 14 November 1898
- ^ "Queen's Park v Rangers". QPFC.com. 12 November 1898. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ Saturday's Football., The Glasgow Herald, 29 May 1899
- ^ Glasgow Football League (First version 1895-1899), Scottish Football Historical Archive
- ^ Stuart Spencer (16 January 2019). "The Season of 1898-99". Scottish Football Museum. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ The beginning of glory Archived 29 December 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Rangers FC
- ^ Rangers Team, 1898-99 (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection), The Glasgow Story
- ^ The first great Rangers team whose 'perfect season' remains unique in British football 122 years on, Matthew Lindsay, Glasgow Times, 7 January 2021