Rangers beaten and broken in 'roughest cup final on record' - Morton's finest hour recalled 100 years on

Rangers face Celtic in Sunday’s Scottish Cup semi-final having gone 13 years since they last lifted the trophy.

However, exactly 100 years ago in the early stages of Bill Struth's reign, the Light Blues were in the midst of an even longer barren run in the competition when they lined up against unfancied Morton in the final at Hampden.

Rangers hadn't lifted the cup since 1903 but despite the stark statistic and a shock loss to Partick Thistle in the previous year's final, the Ibrox side were overwhelming favourites to break their so-called hoodoo.

Bob Cochran's Morton had achieved top-six finishes in eight of the previous ten seasons and boasted several internationals, yet were credited with little chance in their first final. And when 37-goal centre-forward George French was ruled out through injury minutes before kick-off, it seemed Morton's best chance of victory had gone.

However, in a highly physical contest, the Ton triumphed with an early goal from Jimmy Gourlay, the oldest man on the pitch.

Playing against a strong wind on a heavy pitch, Rangers attacked from the first whistle with Alan Morton's strong shot hitting the post in the first minute.

Skipper Andy Cunningham missed a gilt-edged chance from close-range and Morton then came into the match. Rangers' left-back McCandless was short with a pass back to goalkeeper Robb who rushed from his goal in an attempt to retrieve the situation but only succeeded in handling the ball outside his penalty area.

From the resultant free kick, right-half Jimmy Gourlay, a Morton stalwart for a decade, drove the ball with expert precision over the massed ranks of the Rangers wall into the roof of the net.

Just twelve minutes had passed and worse was to come for Rangers when they