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Rangers were formed in 1872 - their first match was an unlikely affair against Callander FC at Flesher's Haugh on Glasgow Green. The result was 0-0 and Glasgow Rangers were born. The name Rangers was adopted from an English rugby club. Despite this promising start, as every fan knows the official founding of the club did not take place until the following year. 1873 is recognised as the year when the club had their first annual meeting and officers were elected.
In 1898/99 Rangers won every game of the season playing eighteen games, eighteen victories, a maximum 36 points. They scored 79 goals at an average of more than four a game, conceding just 18.
The 1919-20 season was to be a golden one for Rangers. The previous season they had been pipped for the title by just one point by Celtic. This time things were to be different. Rangers won 31 of their 42 League games, drawing nine and losing just two. But it was the manner of those victories that impressed. Rangers scored 106 goals and conceded just 25.
The 1930s proved an almost unbroken period of success for Rangers, highlighted by yet another record in the last Old Firm League match at Ibrox before the war. On January 2nd 1939, the biggest crowd ever to watch a League football match in the British Isles turned out for the traditional holiday fixture with Celtic. 118,567 fans crammed into Ibrox in to watch Dave Kinnear and Alex Venters give Rangers a 2-1 win.
After the end of the Second World War, Rangers played host to Moscow Dynamo who wound up a four-match British tour at Ibrox in November 1945. Dynamo had drawn 3-3 with Chelsea and beaten Cardiff 10-1 and Arsenal 4-3. The Russians scored after three minutes and when Willie Waddell missed a penalty for Rangers it looked like Dynamo would come out on top but Rangers fought back and held them to a 2-2 draw.
European competition also beckoned. Rangers had first played in the European Cup in 1956-57, when they had gone out to Nice after a first round play-off, and in 1960 they reached the semi-final, losing to Eintracht Frankfurt. In 1961 they became the first Scottish side to reach a European Final when they contested the Cup Winners' Cup against Fiorentina, going down 4-1 on aggregate over two legs.
The new Scottish Premier League began in the season of 1975-76. Apart from Rangers, the inaugural members of the elite division were Aberdeen, Ayr, Celtic, Dundee, Dundee United, Hearts, Hibernian, Motherwell and St Johnstone.
By 1992-93, Rangers had won their fifth Treble in awesome fashion. They lost only one of their first 23 League games and, of the other four defeats, three came after the Championship had been won. In all, Rangers went a remarkable 44 games without defeat in all competitions. For the record the sequence was 29 League games, four League Cup, three Scottish Cup and eight matches in the European Champions' League.
