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52y, 7m, 27d			Davie Meiklejohn		Paddy Travers
Bert Thomson; Bobby Howitt; Jimmy Walker
Willie Crawford; Alex Stott; Joe McInnes
Johnny MacKenzie (1-0, 8 mins); Bobby Howitt (2-0, 49 mins); Davie Mathers (3-1, 85 mins); Jimmy Walker (4-1, 89 mins)					Tommy Ring (2-1, 83 mins)
30y, 5m, 16d			Tommy Ledgerwood		Willie Wilson
37y, 1m, 29d			Jimmy McGowan		Albert Murphy
31y, 6m, 3d			Bobby Gibb		Harry Haddock
24y, 5m, 21d			Bert Thomson		Tommy Anderson
27y, 9m, 0d			Jimmy Davidson		Jimmy Campbell
21y, 9m, 14d			Davie Mathers		Hugh Long
27y, 11m, 4d			Johnny MacKenzie		John Buchanan
24y, 0m, 24d			Bobby Howitt		Sammy Baird
22y, 7m, 28d			Alex Wright		Billy McPhail
31y, 2m, 14d			Willie Sharp		Archie Robertson
27y, 11m, 9d			Jimmy Walker		Tommy Ring
27y, 10m, 25d

notes

The OH credits Thistle's second as an o.g. (by process of elimination) but GH/ET both say it was Bobby Howitt and we go with them.

TTA report

Thistle hit woodwork twice before MacKenzie tapped in a shot that had run along the crossbar (8). Howitt scored a 2nd (49) then Clyde's goalkeeper was carried off. McGowan moved to the wing (an eye completely closed) and weakened at full-back, 10-man Clyde scored but so did Mathers and Walker (85 and 89).

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Glasgow Herald, 10th August, 1953

PTFC Match Programme, 3rd January, 1989

● The opening game of the 79th season of Partick Thistle F.C.

● Thistle's eighth League Cup campaign gets underway.

ongoing sequences:

● 32 consecutive competitive appearances for Jimmy Davidson, 20th Sep 1952 to date. (Longest run since: Bobby Howitt - 32 games, 16th Aug 1952 to 7th Mar 1953. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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