CELTIC’S SCOTTISH CUP FINALS – Win Number 5…
CELTIC 3-0 HEARTS – HAMPDEN, 20th APRIL 1907 – No team had so far won the Scottish League and the Scottish Cup in the same season, and this Scottish Cup victory was the first step.
It was also significant in that it condemned Hearts, who had won the Cup last year to a trophy famine that lasted nearly 50 years! The weather was not pleasant but there were 50,000 given as attending (one suspects there were more) with the traffic jams around the ground delaying the arrival of Hearts’ goalkeeper Tommy Allan, and therefore the game kicked off about 10 minutes late.
Early in the second half, Jimmy Quinn was tripped, and although Hearts disputed the decisions, Willie Orr scored the penalty before Peter Somers scored another two goals, both simple tap ins after Alec Bennett had set the ball up nicely for him. It ended up a rather one-sided Scottish Cup final.
The Celtic team: Adams, McLeod and Orr; Young, McNair and Hay; Bennett, McMenemy, Quinn, Somers and Templeton. Scorers: Somers (2), Orr (pen)
Hearts: Allan, Reid, Collins, Philip, McLaren, Henderson, Banchop, Walker, Axford, Yates, Wombwell
David Potter
*Article from The Celtic Star archives, featuring the brilliant Celtic writing from Celtic Historian David Potter. Stay tuned for Celtic’s sixth Scottish Cup triumph. Any idea when that was? Don’t worry we’ll tell you shortly!
