DAVID POTTER’S QUIZ QUESTIONS – CELTIC 1887-1900

1. Name of Marist priest who founded the club.

2. First ever opponents, a club with whom they got on wonderfully well.

3. Glasgow club, not very far away who became the first team ever to defeat Celtic.

4. This club, from Dundee with an Irish name, were Celtic’s second opponents.

5. One of the founding fathers. His name sounds as if he could be easily broken, but the truth was quite the reverse!

6. Famous left back who joined the club from Everton.

7. Surname of the famous “Darlin Willie”.

8. Opponents in Celtic’s first ever Scottish Cup win in 1892.

9. Opponents in Celtic’s monumental disaster in the Scottish Cup in 1897 which haunted them for years.

10. The Duke.

11. One of the men who went on strike in 1896, went to Liverpool and Dundee, but made his peace with the club he loved.

12. This fellow did not want his employers in his day job to know that he played professional football on a Saturday, so he was sometimes listed as Willie Montgomery, Montgomery being his mother’s maiden name.

13. Irish politician who planted the shamrocks on the centre circle of the new Celtic Park in 1892.

14. “Stopping professionalism would be like stopping the Niagara falls with a ……. …..” according to John H McLaughlin.

15. Opponents in the 2-0 victory in the 1899 Scottish Cup final.

16. “Madden’s Shipyard” was used to describe Celtic Park when it had these on it.

17. Christian name of Willie Maley’s brother who also played in the early days.

18. Name of newspaper which openly supported Celtic.

19. Centre half from Renton whose family dynasty controlled Celtic for the next 100 years, and not always wisely!

20. Famous diminutive goalkeeper whose first name was Dan.

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