Celtic On This Day – 10th October – David Potter’s Celtic Diary

Month 3, Day 10 of Celtic Historian David Potter’s new diary on The Celtic Star which will run throughout the new season and will highlight key Celtic-related events relevant to each day, today covering 10th October…

SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 1908

Celtic have a reasonably comfortable 2-0 win today at Celtic Park over Dundee, both goals coming from the sometimes undervalued left winger Davie Hamilton, sometimes called “the Dancer” for his trickery.

SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 1936

A good win for Celtic today at Hampden over Queen’s Park, the goals scored by the “two Jimmies” – McGrory and Delaney. Meanwhile the war in Spain is taking a turn for the worse with the Celtic family divided. The strict Catholic section of the support would tend to side with Franco and the Nationalists, whereas the socialist sympathisers would be on the side of the Republic.

SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 1953

Celtic perplex their supporters sometimes. It is clear that in men like Willie Fernie, Bertie Peacock, Bobby Evans, Bobby Collins and Charlie Tully, talent is there in abundance, and man for man they are better than anyone else. The problem is inconsistency and some awful performances. Not today however. 20,000 leave Parkhead today happy with a 3-0 win, even without Tully, over a rugged Raith Rovers side. Some are even talking about a challenge for the League title for the first time since 1938. And the news that Rangers have lost their League Cup semi-final to Partick Thistle doesn’t exactly reduce anyone to tears either!

SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 1964

Celtic play well to beat Aberdeen 3-1 at Pittodrie before 12,000 fans. In spite of going behind to an early penalty kick, Celtic fight back with goals from John Hughes, Bobby Murdoch and Steve Chalmers.

SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 1987

Following a couple of indifferent draws against Hibs and Dundee, Celtic return to winning ways with a 3-1 victory over Morton at Parkhead with goals from Andy Walker, Derek Whyte and the first goal for the club from Frank McAvennie. The crowd is given as 22,780 but most fans suspect there are a great deal more than that there.