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Partick Thistle were so uniformly good that to particularise would not be proper. However, Campbell, not only on account of his fine kicking and fearless tackling, was liked for the cheerful way he went about his work. It was the gladsome experience of the Partick Thistle officials to hear higher encomiums passed upon their team at Easter Road than perhaps in any match this season. In the grand stand, the private stand, the committee room, and no doubt forth of those shady retreats, the people formed but one opinion of Partick Thistle – that they are the most under-rated team in the League. The men from Meadowside had plenty of weight, which they used freely and at all times legitimately as to earn an early and most wholesome respect from the lighter Hibs; their football was vigorous, robust, and thoroughly class, and one left with the conviction that long before the end of the season, by which time they will have gained, it may be hoped, some more encouraging experiences such as Saturday’s, they will have to be reckoned with.

Daily Record, Monday, 3rd November, 1902

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