# 1917–18 Rangers F.C. season

The 1917–18 season is the 44th season of competitive football by Rangers.

## Overview

Rangers played a total of 34 competitive matches during the 1917–18 season. They finished top of the Scottish League after winning 25 of the 34 league matches and collecting a total of 56 points (one more than second placed Celtic).
The Scottish Cup was not competed for this season as the Scottish Football Association had withdrawn the tournament due to the outbreak of the First World War.

## Results

All results are written with Rangers' score first.

### Scottish League Division One

| Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Attendance | Scorers |
| 18 August 1917 | Kilmarnock | A | 1–0 | 10,000 | McDermid |
| 29 August 1917 | Third Lanark | H | 4–2 | 18,000 | Cunningham (3, 1 pen), Cairns |
| 1 September 1917 | Partick Thistle | A | 0–2 | 20,000 | |
| 15 September 1917 | Hibernian | H | 3–0 | 10,000 | Bowie, Cairns, Gordon (o.g.) |
| 24 September 1917 | Queen's Park | H | 3–0 | 12,000 | Muirhead (2), Lawson |
| 29 September 1917 | Dumbarton | A | 4–2 | 8,000 | Cairns (2), Muirhead (2) |
| 13 October 1917 | Morton | A | 1–1 | 10,000 | Brown |
| 20 October 1917 | Celtic | H | 1–2 | 45,000 | Bowie |
| 27 October 1917 | St Mirren | A | 0–0 | 10,00 | |
| 3 November 1917 | Ayr United | H | 0–0 | 8,000 | |
| 10 November 1917 | Heart of Midlothian | A | 3–0 | 12,000 | Gordon (2), Archibald |
| 17 November 1917 | Airdrieonians | H | 4–0 | 12,000 | Brown (3), Cairns |
| 24 November 1917 | Queen's Park | A | 3–2 | 12,000 | Gordon (pen.), Archibald, Brown |
| 1 December 1917 | Dumbarton | H | 2–1 | 7,000 | Cairns (2) |
| 8 December 1917 | Hamilton Academical | A | 2–1 | 9,000 | Reid (2) |
| 15 December 1917 | Falkirk | H | 4–1 | 8,000 | Brown (2), Archibald, Bowie |
| 22 December 1917 | Third Lanark | A | 1–0 | 12,000 | Muirhead |
| 29 December 1917 | St Mirren | H | 2–0 | 12,000 | Bowie, Cairns |
| 1 January 1918 | Celtic | A | 0–0 | 55,000 | |
| 2 January 1918 | Partick Thistle | H | 1–0 | 18,000 | Blair (pen.) |
| 5 January 1918 | Clydebank | A | 1–1 | 14,700 | Archibald |
| 12 January 1918 | Heart of Midlothian | H | 2–0 | 8,000 | Gordon (2) |
| 26 January 1918 | Ayr United | A | 2–0 | 5,000 | Cairns, McDermid |
| 2 February 1918 | Morton | H | 4–2 | 25,000 | Gordon (4) |
| 9 February 1918 | Hibernian | A | 1–0 | 8,000 | McDermid |
| 16 February 1918 | Clyde | A | 3–0 | 8,000 | Brown (2), Cairns |
| 23 February 1918 | Motherwell | A | 0–0 | 12,000 | |
| 2 March 1918 | Kilmarnock | H | 3–0 | 20,000 | Archibald (2), McCulloch |
| 9 March 1918 | Falkirk | A | 0–2 | 8,000 | |
| 16 March 1918 | Hamilton Academical | H | 4–2 | 10,000 | McDermid, Hart, Archibald, Martin |
| 23 March 1918 | Airdrieonians | A | 2–1 | 10,000 | Hart, Cairns |
| 30 March 1918 | Clydebank | H | 1–0 | 10,000 | Cunningham |
| 6 April 1918 | Motherwell | H | 2–1 | 25,000 | Gordon (2) |
| 13 April 1918 | Clyde | H | 2–1 | 10,000 | Archibald, Bowie |

## Appearances

| Player | Position | Appearances | Goals |
| Sandy Archibald | MF | 34 | 8 |
| Tommy Cairns | FW | 34 | 11 |
| James Bowie | MF | 33 | 5 |
| Arthur Dixon | DF | 32 | 0 |
| Bert Manderson | DF | 29 | 0 |
| Bob McDermid | MF | 28 | 4 |
| James Blair | DF | 27 | 1 |
| John Hempsey | GK | 25 | 0 |
| Peter Pursell | DF | 24 | 0 |
| James Martin | MF | 18 | 1 |
| Jimmy Gordon | DF | 16 | 11 |
| George McQueen | DF | 12 | 0 |
| Harold McKenna | MF | 12 | 0 |
| David Brown | FW | 11 | 9 |
| Tommy Muirhead | MF | 7 | 5 |
| Herbert Lock | GK | 7 | 0 |
| Hector Lawson | MF | 5 | 1 |
| Andy Cunningham | MF | 4 | 4 |
| James Young | MF | 4 | 0 |
| Joseph Hart | FW | 3 | 2 |
| James Riddell | DF | 2 | 0 |
| Thomas Shingleton | GK | 2 | 0 |
| John McCulloch | FW | 2 | 1 |
| Dick Bell | MF | 1 | 0 |
| Willie Reid | FW | 1 | 2 |
| John Dick | DF | 1 | 0 |