Hibernian 4 - 4 Aberdeen

Courage and spirit that refuses to accept defeat can work wonders. The Dons had both in abundance at Easter Road.

A team that is down 1-4 to Hibs, the League champions, at half-time, and can finish on level terms may still lack some of the virtues that make a championship side, but team spirit is surely not one of them.
Hibs turned on their own particular brand of clever, quick-silver, match-winning football in the opening period. It was good to watch and it brought results. Johnstone and Reilly were the chief danger men.

VICTORY for Hibs was taken for granted at half-time. Even the Aberdeen players must have had serious doubts about the outcome. If they had, however, there was certainly no sign of it when they went into action in the second half.
They put the brakes on the frolicsome Hibs forwards. The ranks of the Aberdeen defence closed up. The open spaces in which the Easter Road forwards had been allowed to work their wiles in the first half disappeared.

THE Dons began to fight back and the Hibs' defence didn't like it. The strength of the urge behind the Dons' revival may be judged from the fact that Lowrie, left half, was practically on the goal-line when he notched the equaliser in the dying seconds of the game.
The champions were suffering from a severe attack of shock by this time, and I venture to suggest that the Dons might have snatched the winner had there been a few more minutes to go.
The second half was an anticlimax for Hibs after their brilliant first half display. There is still a question mark attached to the Easter Road defence.

No praise can be too high for the will-to-win spirit shown by the Pittodrie players in the second halt, and it makes it easy to forget their lack of thrust in the opening period.
There was a big improvement in the play of Emery and McKenna after the interval, and Lowrie, I thought, showed better form than he has done for several weeks.
Delaney played gallantly on the right wing after he was injured, and along with Yorston provided the main driving power in attack.

Source: Evening Express 17th September 1951