CELTIC’S SCOTTISH CUP FINALS – Number 4…CELTIC 3-2 RANGERS – HAMPDEN, 16th APRIL 1904 – This was the first game to be played at New Hampden and is generally seen as the springboard for the great “6 in a row League Championship” side that came next. It was also the occasion of the Jimmy Quinn hat-trick.
Jimmy Quinn scored a hat-trick
Rangers were 2-0 up early on, but then Quinn charged through to score and then hammered home a cross from Bobby Muir to equalise before half time. Then Jimmy charged through to score another goal not dissimilar to his first. He was almost dismembered by his ecstatic team mates, but then shook them off and walked with grim determination “cool as hell” (as an admirer out it) back to the centre line. This is arguably Celtic’s best and most famous Scottish Cup final of them all.
The match ball
Some rare photographs of this famous Scottish Cup Final
The Celtic team was: Adams, McLeod and Orr; Young, Loney and Hay; Muir, McMenemy, Quinn, Somers and Hamilton.
