1903–04 Scottish Cup

1903–04 Scottish Cup
Tournament details
Country	Scotland
Defending champions	Rangers
Final positions
Champions	Celtic
Runners-up	Rangers

The 1903–04 Scottish Cup was the 31st season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The cup was won by Celtic when they beat holders Rangers 3–2 in the final at the newly built Hampden Park to claim the trophy for a fourth time.^[1] The fixture may have been the point when the 'Old Firm' term began to be used in media to denote the relationship between the clubs, due to the increasing frequency of their meetings and the mutual commercial benefits of the growing rivalry.^[2]^[3]

Calendar

Round	First match date	Fixtures	Clubs
First round	28 January 1904	16	32 → 16
Second round	6 February 1904	8	16 → 8
Quarter-finals	20 February 1904	4	8 → 4
Semi-finals	5 March 1904	2	4 → 2
Final	16 April 1904	1	2 → 1

First round

Home team	Score	Away team
Abercorn	2 – 2	Maxwelltown Volunteers
Albion Rovers	2 – 1	Kilwinning Eglinton
Alloa Athletic	2 – 1	Aberdeen
Ayr	0 – 2	St Mirren
Celtic	Walkover	Stanley
Clyde	2 – 2	Arbroath
Dundee	3 – 0	Queen's Park
Hibernian	2 – 1	Airdrieonians
Greenock Morton	8 – 1	6th GRV
Motherwell	2 – 1	Partick Thistle
Nithsdale Wanderers	2 – 2	Kilmarnock
Port Glasgow Athletic	1 – 2	Leith Athletic
Rangers	3 – 2	Heart of Midlothian
St Bernard's	1 – 1	West Calder Swifts
St Johnstone	2 – 0	Hearts of Beath
Third Lanark	Walkover	Newton Stewart

First round replay

Home team	Score	Away team
Arbroath	4 – 0	Clyde
Kilmarnock	1 – 1	Nithsdale Wanderers
Maxwelltown Volunteers	1 – 1	Abercorn
West Calder Swifts	3 – 3	St Bernard's

Second round replay

Home team	Score	Away team
Abercorn	2 – 1	Maxwelltown Volunteers
Kilmarnock	2 – 1	Nithsdale Wanderers
St Bernard's	2 – 0	West Calder Swifts

Second round

Home team	Score	Away team
Dundee	4 –0	Abercorn
Hibernian	1 – 2	Rangers
Kilmarnock	2 – 2	Albion Rovers
Leith Athletic	3 – 1	Motherwell
Greenock Morton	2 – 0	Arbroath
St Bernard's	0 – 4	Celtic
St Mirren	4 – 0	St Johnstone
Third Lanark	3 – 1	Alloa Athletic

Second round replay

Home team	Score	Away team
Albion Rovers	0 – 1	Kilmarnock

Quarter-final

Home team	Score	Away team
Celtic	1 – 1	Dundee
Leith Athletic	1 – 3	Greenock Morton
St Mirren	0 – 1	Rangers
Third Lanark	3 – 0	Kilmarnock

Quarter-final replay

Home team	Score	Away team
Dundee	0 – 0	Celtic

Quarter-final second replay

Home team	Score	Away team
Celtic	5 – 0	Dundee

Semi-finals

Home team	Score	Away team
Celtic	2 – 1	Third Lanark
Rangers	3 – 0	Greenock Morton

Final

16 April 1904^[1]^[4]

Celtic	3–2	Rangers
Quinn		Speedie

Hampden Park

Attendance: 64,472^[5]

Teams


Celtic:
GK		Davey Adams
RB		Donald McLeod
LB		Willie Orr
RH		James Young
CH		Willie Loney
LH		Jimmy Hay
OR		Bobby Muir
IR		Jimmy McMenemy
CF		Jimmy Quinn
IL		Peter Somers
OL		Davie Hamilton


Rangers:
GK		John Watson
RB		Nicol Smith
LB		Jock Drummond
RH		George Henderson
CH		James Stark
LH		John Robertson
OR		Johnny Walker
IR		Finlay Speedie
CF		Alec Mackie
IL		Charles Donaghy
OL		Alex Smith

References

^ ^a ^b Scottish Cup Final Tie. | Celtic v. Rangers., The Glasgow Herald, 18 April 1904
^ "Six classic matches: the birth of the Old Firm and the day Hampden burned". The Herald. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
^ "The Old Firm story: When fans joined forces to riot". The Scotsman. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
^ "The elite players who scored cup final hat-tricks". The Scotsman. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
^ 2-3 Vs Celtic in Scottish Cup (16/04/1904), FitbaStats

External links

Season 1903-04 Celtic [results list, including Qualifying Cup], The Beautiful Dribbling Game
Scottish Cup 1903/04, RSSSF

[herald04-1] Scottish Cup Final Tie. | Celtic v. Rangers., The Glasgow Herald, 18 April 1904

[classic-2] "Six classic matches: the birth of the Old Firm and the day Hampden burned". The Herald. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[joined-3] "The Old Firm story: When fans joined forces to riot". The Scotsman. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[elite-4] "The elite players who scored cup final hat-tricks". The Scotsman. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2017.

[5] 2-3 Vs Celtic in Scottish Cup (16/04/1904), FitbaStats

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Scottish Cup
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List of finals Winning managers Scottish Qualifying Cup

1903–04 in Scottish football
« 1902–03 1904–05 »
Domestic leagues	Football League Division One Division Two Highland League
Domestic cups	(Final) Junior Cup
Related to national team	Results British Home Championship
Club seasons
Division One	Airdrieonians Celtic Dundee Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Kilmarnock Morton Motherwell Partick Thistle Port Glasgow Athletic Queen's Park Rangers St. Mirren Third Lanark
Division Two	Abercorn Albion Rovers Arthurlie Ayr Ayr Parkhouse Clyde East Stirlingshire Falkirk Hamilton Academical Leith Athletic Raith Rovers St Bernard's
Other teams	Aberdeen

1903–04 in European football
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Domestic cups	England Netherlands Ireland Norway '03 '04 Spain '03 '04 Wales

Calendar

First round

First round replay

Second round replay

Second round

Second round replay

Quarter-final

Quarter-final replay

Quarter-final second replay

Semi-finals

Final

Teams

See also

References

External links