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THIS DAY IN CELTIC HISTORY – APRIL 29TH
1909 Sheer exhaustion causes Celtic to lose at Easter Road 0-1 to Hibs before 6,000 people, thus failing to win the League Championship this Thursday night. They have now played 7 games in 11 days! But they still have another chance, this time at Douglas Park Hamilton to-morrow night. A victory will win the Championship, otherwise the title will go to Dundee.
1916 Celtic finish off the League season in grand style with a 5-0 win over Partick Thistle. Patsy Gallacher "the most talked about man in the trenches" scores a hat-trick and Joe O'Kane scores two.
1922 Celtic win the League Championship in dramatic style at Greenock. A late Andy McAtee goal is enough to give Celtic a draw against Scottish Cup winners Morton, and this draw wins the Championship for the 16th time, for Rangers also draw at Clyde. The game is marked by serious crowd disturbances of a political nature, not unconnected with the ongoing troubles in Ireland.
1967 Celtic win the Scottish Cup for the 19th time when they beat Aberdeen 2-0 at Hampden. Both goals come from Willie Wallace on either side of half-time. 126,102 are there. Celtic are now also in the European Cup Final having just returned from their goalless draw with Dukla Prague on Tuesday night, and further icing is added to the cake with the news that Rangers have only drawn at Dundee, meaning that a draw at Ibrox next Saturday will win the League as well.
1971 On a Thursday night at Hampden, Celtic win the Scottish League for the 6th year in a row, thus equalling the feat of Willie Maley's great team of 1905-1910. The game against Ayr United is played at Hampden because Parkhead's main stand is under re-construction, and thus the tradition continues of Celtic not winning any of their League titles at Parkhead! Bobby Lennox and Willie Wallace score the goals.
2001 Lubo Moravcik scores twice and Henrik Larsson once as Celtic beat Rangers 3-0 at Ibrox in a game which is as one-sided as the Championship has been this season. Total silence and early departures are the order of the day in the Ibrox Stands, while the Broomloan Road Stand is playful and mocking. Almost as an afterthought, young Shaun Maloney is given his debut.
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