TURN OUT FOR THE LIGHTS
FIRST THINGS FIRST
TONGUE-TWISTER
SOME FAB FACTS, OFFBEAT OCCURRENCES AND AMUSING
ANECDOTES FROM THE IBROX ARCHIVE compiiid bywiluamwalker
It was Rangers who set an amazing attendance
record for a friendly match in Britain when a huge
crowd of 104,679 saw them meet Eintracht Frankfurt
in October 1961, in a game to officially open the
Hampden Park floodlights.
Midfielder Harold Davis hit a brace for the Light Blues
but the German aces were 3-2 winners on the night.
Rangers were on the receiving end of a remarkable series of
firsts against Dundee at Dens Park on February 25, 1984.
The home side's Colin Harris scored his first goal, with his first
touch, in the first minute of his first game for the Dark Blues.
Happily the Gers came back to win 3-1 with strikes from
Russell, Cooper and McPherson.
Ajax's city neighbours DWS Amsterdam, Rangers' third
round adversaries in the 1968-69 Fairs Cup, are surely one
of the Light Blues' most-strangely named opponents of all
time. The DWS stood for the rather-cumbersome moniker
Door Wilskracht Sterk or 'Strength Through Willpower'.
DWS later merged with Blauw Wit and Volewijckers to
become FC Amsterdam before going their own way once
again as an amateur team.
OUT OF THE BLUE
