Rangers Picture Thread

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3 hours ago, Callum_Doon said:

So let's all try to identity everyone in that photo...!!

Their names are across bottom of the pic

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Ghosting past Tommy Burns...

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On 10/08/2018 at 08:45, Callum_Doon said:

I can only find the following evidence:

It was posted by someone called 'Tannerall' (swear I'd heard of him before...), on June 27, 2017...and in this very forum, under the topic:

'Ibrox Old And New, Different Perspectives.'.

You can just see at the bottom of that image what appears to be another part of the newspaper.

Anyway: sure you were at a stated 1959 game...

I wonder if 'Tannerall' knows why the daily express helicopter landed on the pitch. I'd love to know the story behind this pic. It would have been a big thing.

On 10/08/2018 at 14:02, Don54 said:

I find it interesting that these sports games were organised by Govan police and Govan and Glasgow missionaries. It sounds as though Ibrox was the heart of the community. I'd love to find out the history behind these community events. e.g How did the Govan police and Govan and Glasgow missionaries get involved with the club? When did they get involved? Were Rangers part of the missionary work via athletics?

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4 hours ago, Sweetheart said:

I wonder if 'Tannerall' knows why the daily express helicopter landed on the pitch. I'd love to know the story behind this pic. It would have been a big thing.

I find it interesting that these sports games were organised by Govan police and Govan and Glasgow missionaries. It sounds as though Ibrox was the heart of the community. I'd love to find out the history behind these community events. e.g How did the Govan police and Govan and Glasgow missionaries get involved with the club? When did they get involved? Were Rangers part of the missionary work via athletics?

I came across this : 

At a meeting in 1895, "All the competitors in the heavy events at Ibrox on Saturday hail originally from the north of Scotland.

Since many of the most famous field athletes were not only Highianders but also officers in local police forces, their presence gave a certain air of respectability to the proceedings

which appealed not only to Glasgow's establishment but also to the lower middle classes and members of the labour aristocracy.

Sometimes, however, cultural clashes were deliberately
encouraged to promote commercial interest. In 1894 the
Govan Police Sports was held at Ibrox. In order to provide
a financially attractive ethnic clash, one of the
five police teams involved in an inter-city tug-of-war
contest came from Dublin. It was opposed by a Govan Police
team dressed in Rangers F.C.'s colours.

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37 minutes ago, Don54 said:

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