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					Willie Paul
					David Proudfoot
?; ?					?; ?; ?; ?; ?; ?
Andrew Orr					John Proudfoot
			?		Pat Smith
			?		George Stewart
			?		Abe Morrison			20y, 6m, 9d
			?		James Bryce			25y, 6m, 16d
			?		John Proudfoot			21y, 6m, 4d
			?		Robert Little			22y, 10m, 25d
			Cunningham		Robert Currie
			Andrew Orr		Jim Stirling
			J. Orr		Willie Paul			29y, 6m, 24d
			Dargue		John Wilkie			19y, 0m, 16d
			Carruthers		John Campbell			17y, 10m, 29d
								22y, 5m, 3d

notes

Relevant GH page is reverse image - can't read.

match data help required

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TTA report

No report of this match has been found but it is known that John Proudfoot and a Swifts player “squared up“ to each other and were sent off. Proudfoot confessed “He kickit me and I kickit him“ at his SFA hearing (SR). He was suspended for 1 month.

● Jim Stirling makes his last-known appearance for Thistle.

● Burnbank Swifts become the 66th club to play Partick Thistle in competitive action.

● Thistle play their first match in the Scottish Qualifying Cup, their sixteenth competition.

● Thistle's sixteenth Scottish Cup campaign gets underway, the first of three seasons when entry was dependent on succesfully navigating a route via the Scottish Qualifying Cup. For the one and only time, they would fail to qualify this season.

ongoing sequences:

● 18 consecutive quoted competitive appearances (not known to be broken) for John Campbell, 10th Nov 1894 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since the club-record: Willie Freebairn - 44 games, 27th May 1893 to 13th Apr 1895.)

● 20 away games without a clean-sheet in the League; 19th Aug 1893 to date. (An extension of the club-record.)

● 74 competitive away games without a clean-sheet; 31st Oct 1885 to date. (An extension of the club-record.)

Stats Watch adheres to our stated definitions of League, League Max, Major Competitive, Competitive or All Games. Where there is no written qualification, you should presume that the Stat in question is compiled from the All Games criteria.

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