Danny Dawson would make nine appearances for Celtic the next season, 1934/35, beginning with a second visit to Tynecastle, on Saturday, 18 August 1934, Jimmy Delaney making his debut in the Hoops for what would prove to be a truly wonderful career. The bad-tempered game, with trouble on and off the field amongst the 39,000 crowd, finished goalless, thanks mainly to Joe Kennaway, who once again defied the Gorgie strikeforce. Joe had suffered a bad eye injury in the first half, yet still refused to be beaten. Geatons deputised for the Canadian in goals, whilst he received stitches on the sidelines, just as he had done for John Thomson, three years earlier, following that dreadful incident at Ibrox.
Danny would reappear in the side at the end of September, a 2-1 defeat by Albion Rovers at Cliftonhill seeing the Celts drop to twelfth place in the League, Bobby Hogg again missing a penalty in that game. He would then be absent for the next three months until a Christmas Day outing against Queens’ Park at Celtic Park, the Hoops winning 4-1 to climb back up to a more respectable second in the table. Jimmy Delaney, with a brace, Johnny Crum and Jimmy McGrory the men on target in front of 20,000.
McGrory would better that four days later, with a hat-trick, as Celts won the return fixture with Hearts by 4-2, Crum having opened the scoring early on. Danny again retained his place for the next match, on New Year’s Day 1935, as Rangers won 2-1 in the top of the table clash at Ibrox before 83,000 fans. This was the day that Peter McGonagle administered his own brand of justice on Rangers centre-forward, Jimmy Smith, following a series of shall-we-say robust challenges on Joe Kennaway. Peter was sent off in the 75th minute, marking the beginning of the end of his long and distinguished Celtic career. Charlie Napier had retired injured before the interval, the nine-man Celts somehow clawing a late goal back through George Paterson but the home side’s earlier two-goal salvo enough for the win.
