Aberdeen 2 - 1 Celtic

SOME GREAT PLAY - NOT BY CELTS

FINE GAME PLAYED BY WADDELL

With five successive victories to their credit before this game, the young Celts were attractive visitors to Pittodrie. where the crowd was on the 12,000 mark.

There was some great play - but not from the leaders, who were well beaten by an inspired home team.
Had the Young Dons scored five goals it would not have flattered them, so well did they play at times. The Parkhead reserves had no cause for complaint.
The homesters started in promising fashion, and for the first twenty minutes were dangerous. Smith, the right winger, was playing his first game of the season, and did not look confident, missing two easy chances. He had another opportunity, but passed back to Baird, who scored. This put the homesters on their mettle, and five minutes later Hume breasted down a cross by Willie Scott and netted easily.
It was nearly all Aberdeen in the second half, until near the close, when the visitors were awarded a penalty for what seemed a trivial offence. Lynch scored from the spot, and the visitors made desperate but unavailing efforts to equalise in the last few minutes.
There was not a weak link in the home side, but Waddell and Taylor, at centre-half and left-half respectively, took the honours. Waddell. a slip of a lard, played a grand game, and held Carruth effectively.
Baird played well in addition to taking his goal, while Scott. Hume and Williams kept the defence busy. Smith was not seen until the second half, when he had some good efforts, while in a Celtic team which did not shape well as expected. Doyle, Lynch, Duffy and Anderson were best.

Source: Press & Journal, 27th August 1938