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Q Graham McEwan recalls the last title-decider before reconstruction: "What were the teams for the Hibs v Rangers game on March 29th 1975. I know the game ended 1-1 giving Rangers the title, thus ending Celtic's bid for 10 in a row and I think the great Colin Stein scored that day. Also any info on the man himself, Colin Stein?"

A The Hibs team was: McArthur, Brownlie, Barry, Stanton, Schaedler, Bremner, Smith, Munro, McLeod, Harper, Duncan

Rangers lined up: Kennedy, Jardine (Greig), Jackson, Forsyth, Miller, McKean, MacDonald, Johnstone, McLean, Stein, Parlane

You're right about the details of what was a quite dramatic match. Before the kick-off Rangers were on 50 points with five to play. Hibs were on 41 and Celtic 40 so a draw was good enough to win the title.

Hibs scored first through McLeod, Jardine missed a penalty, Stein equalised - his first goal since returning from Coventry - and John Greig - who was injured - came on with seconds to play in order to be skipper on the field when the flag was won.

The match was watched by a crowd of 38,565 and Greig was the only survivor from the last Rangers title-winners in 1964.

Colin Stein was one of the great personalities of his day. Born in Philipstoun, West Lothian, he made his way to Hibernian via school football in Linlithgow, Broxburn Strollers and Armadale Thistle and made his first-team debut aged 18. He'd already scored over 50 goals in first-class football by the time he joined Rangers at the end of October 1968, aged 21. His was a sensational transfer - the first £100,000 figure between Scottish clubs.

And Stein's impact at Ibrox was immediate. He hit a hat-trick on his debut in a 5-1 win at Arbroath, scored another treble against his old team-mates Hibs a week later at Ibrox then banged in two more at Dundalk in a Fairs Cup tie!

Stein had a temper as fiery as his shooting and he was sent off on a number of occasions. This writer recalls a match at Rugby Park in January 1969 when Stein clashed with the diminutive Tommy McLean, only for wee Tam's Killie team-mate Billy Dickson to come to his rescue.

Dickson and Stein both slugged it out toe-to-toe before both were sent off. Stein received a six-week ban but because of postponements missed just one game - this was instrumental in the authorities changing suspensions from time periods to match bans.

The highlight of his Rangers career was undoubtedly the Cup-Winners Cup Final in Barcelona in 1972 when he scored the opening goal in the 3-2 win over Moscow Dynamo.

Colin Stein scores against Celtic

After almost four eventful years at Ibrox, Stein was transferred to Coventry City in October 1972. His time there was quieter but not unsuccessful - he turned out in over 80 League games and scored more than 20 goals before returning to Rangers in March 1975, just two weeks before he scored the title-winning goal on his old Easter Road stamping ground. His return had little to do with Stein. Coventry could no longer keep up payments due on his transfer and had no option but to let him go.

However, the two Dereks - Johnstone and Parlane - were in possession of the striking roles for Rangers and Stein found first team chances few and far between.

In 1977-78 tragedy struck when Kilmarnock's striker Ian Fallis was killed in a road accident. Stein, languishing in the reserves, was sent out on loan to Rugby Park. With Killie in the 1st Division, it was the first time in his career that Stein had played outwith the top flight

He played in the team that knocked Celtic out of the Scottish Cup and ironically the last time he started a match was at Ibrox in a 4-1 Scottish Cup quarter-final defeat in March 1978. Two weeks later Colin Stein made his final appearance in Scottish football when he came on as a substitute at Arbroath. There were to be no hat-trick fireworks this time and his last game ended with Killie losing 1-0.

Stein was given a free transfer by Rangers at the end of the season but although there were plenty of clubs willing to make him an offer he decided to retire just before his 31st birthday.

Colin Stein was a throwback to the days of the old-fashioned centre-forward. Strong, courageous and aggressive, he was a player who gave his all. Perhaps he made the decision to retire so soon, knowing he would never be able to repeat his earlier successes and three years in the reserves must have had a dispiriting effect.

He was from one of those footballing families small Scottish communities seem to so often throw up. His brother Eric was a Youth international and another brother, Bobby, played with distinction for Raith, Montrose and East Stirling.

By the time of his retirement Colin had scored 112 league goals in Scotland in 221 outings - just over a goal every two games. And all bar eight of those strikes were in the top league. He scored another 50 in domestic first class and European games. Add in another 28 goals with Coventry and you can see he was quite a prolific scorer.

According to the record books, Stein made his Scotland debut as a Rangers player. Yet when he turned out in a friendly in the Idraetsparken in Copenhagen on October 16th 1968 he was actually still with Hibs.

He was certainly a fully-fledged Ranger when he made his next international appearance, scoring twice in Cyprus in a 5-0 World Cup qualifying victory.

He played in all three home internationals in 1969 and scored in every game but it was his next outing - his sixth cap - which saw Stein shoot himself into the record books. Against Cyprus in the return qualifier at Hampden he scored four times in an 8-0 rout. It was the most any Scot had scored in a World Cup tie and - 35 years later - it remains the last time a Scotland player scored a hat-trick!

Colin scored in Scotland's next match - a 1-1 draw against Ireland in Dublin - to take his tally to ten in seven games.

But although he went on to play for his country on a further fourteen occasions he never again found the net.

In the end Colin Stein's was a colourful and incident-filled career. But like so many of his Rangers contemporaries, Celtic's dominance under another Stein ensured that he finished his playing days with a trophy cabinet nowhere near as full as might have been expected.