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			Committee		Davie Meiklejohn			47y, 3m, 13d
					Willie Hewitt; Frank MacBeath; Maurice Candlin
					Hugh Brown; Archie McCallum; Bert Kinnell
Alex Ferguson (3-1, 45 mins)					Tommy Wright (1-0, 2 mins); Willie Sharp (2-0, 17 mins); Willie Sharp (3-0, 1st half)
					Adam Forsyth (Jimmy Davidson, 30 mins)
			Fred Newton		Bobby Henderson			30y, 5m, 21d
			K. Chisholm		Jimmy McGowan			31y, 9m, 15d
			George Sutherland		Peter Curran
			James MacDonald		Willie Hewitt			27y, 5m, 25d
			Dodo Ross		Adam Forsyth			27y, 3m, 16d
			Jock Finlay		Andrew Wilson
			Chic Ogilvie		Frank MacBeath			23y, 9m, 24d
			Munro		Willie Sharp			25y, 10m, 0d
			D. Cameron		Tommy Wright			20y, 2m, 5d
			Alex Ferguson		Maurice Candlin			26y, 4m, 14d
			Tommy Urquhart		Jimmy Walker			22y, 6m, 24d
								26y, 2m, 13d
			n-a		Jimmy Davidson			22y, 4m, 17d

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Thistle (with 2 ex-County players - Forsyth and MacBeath - playing), scored through Candlin who broke away and passed to Wright (2). Sharp's angled drive (17) made it 2-0 and he scored again soon after. County scored just on half-time. Forsyth was “unwell“ (APJ), played for 30 minutes then Davidson replaced him.

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Daily Record, 26th March, 1948

● Thistle and Ross County meet for the first time.

ongoing sequences:

● 24 consecutive competitive appearances for Bobby Henderson, 11th Oct 1947 to date. (Longest run since: Jackie Husband - 39 games, 19th Apr 1947 to 28th Feb 1948. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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