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Rangers 1 Dundee 5

Of all the teams in the Scottish League Dundee probably are the most sombrely dressed. As they trooped on to Ibrox Stadium on Saturday in their dark blue shirts, white pants, and dark blue stockings with white tops, one thought of competence and solidity and even of conservatism of football method; if the uniform meant anything Rangers, in vertical light blue and white stripes, lighter blue shimmering shorts and vivid scarlet hose, looked the gay cavaliers of the game, the modern stylists of football.

But dress does not make the footballer any more than it makes the man. Those who wear the drab Dundee shirts these days are worthy of being considered in the class of great Scottish clubs of the past; there is abundance of skill and the essential leavening of dour uncompromising will to win - just such a combination as raised Rangers and Celtic in the past to the peaks of success.

The captivating display of the Dundee forwards against Rangers and the incisive thrusts of Gilzean, one of few players who have scored four goals at Ibrox against Rangers - I recall only the late Willie Martin of Clyde achieving such a feat - will for long be recalled. But for all their later forward mastery and their five second-half goals Dundee may have won Saturday's game during the period in the first half when Rangers, having survived early Dundee superiority, tested their defence, especially the full backs.

One might have expected Dundee to lose their poise as Rangers went all out for a goal, especially as they may have been tempted to depart from their method of stroking the ball out from the danger area and ignoring the safe if uncontrolled clearing kick. For in the fourteenth minute, after Smith with a graceful left-foot swing from 20 yards had struck Ritchie's left-hand post and both Robertson and Penman had driven the ball against the goalkeeper from inside the 6yd box, Seith made a pass back in much too nonchalant fashion and presented Christie with a scoring opportunity from which nine centre forwards out of 10 would have profited.

But Dundee persisted in their studied, well-drilled way even when Scott and Wilson, aided and abetted by Baxter and McMillan, threatened to run riot. And after every calculated move out of defence came trouble for Rangers as Smith and Cousin, having retreated to aid their colleagues, switched play with shrewd appreciation of Rangers' half-back defects.

In the first minute of the second half Smith, Penman, Cousin and Gilzean combined in an attack which started in their own half of the field and culminated in Gilzean's header; a magnificent goal. Two minutes later Cousin, accelerating like a greyhound, ran all of 50 yards from well inside the Dundee half, controlling the ball as Penman raced for an open space on the right, and Gilzean came gliding in again to side-foot Penman's pass out of reach of a goalkeeper left at the scorer's mercy.

By this time that usually sound back Caldow was making all kinds of mistakes; Baxter, brilliant in attack, was as remiss as ever in a wing half's defensive duties, and Paterson, not the most mobile of centre halves, was in a constant dither.

Dundee relentlessly probed the uncertainty on Rangers' left flank, yet never omitted to bring Gulzean into their plan. Sixteen minutes from time Smith for the second time in the match deliberately placed a corner kick short and Gilzean cooly flicked his own and his side's third goal. Though Brand headed a goal for Rangers after they had been awarded an indirect free kick in the penalty area and Dundee for once paid the penalty for eschewing the orthodox, ordinary clearance, the league champions were thoroughly defeated: Christie by his coarse treatment of Liney and Baxter by his attempts to baulk from behind the majestic Smith proved that.

As only a return of the fog could have saved Rangers Smith meandered up and down the wing denying baffled opponents the ball with his agility and draining time away from them, and then suddenly directed the attack across field. Seith, Robertson, and Cousin joined in the Dundee monopoly of the ball and then Gilzean with purposeful intrusion whipped a left-foot ground shot out of Ritchie's reach. Penman completed Dundee's great day when Baxter passed back short.