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			Tommy Walker		Willie Thornton			44y, 5m, 26d
					Joe Hogan; Harold Davis
					George Muir; Ian Cowan
Tommy White (0-1, 8 mins); Alan Gordon (2-2, 40 mins); Willie Wallace (2-3, 49 mins); Willie Wallace (2-4, 75 mins)					Neil Duffy (1-1, 33 mins); Jim Fleming (2-1, 38 mins); Tommy Ewing (3-4, pen 84 mins)
			Jim Cruickshank		Jim Gray
			future Jag Derek Rutherford		Joe Hogan			26y, 6m, 5d
			future Jag David Holt		Hugh Tinney			20y, 3m, 15d
			Willie Polland		Harold Davis			31y, 3m, 19d
			Alan Anderson		John Harvey			31y, 7m, 8d
			Billy Higgins		Dick Staite			21y, 6m, 8d
			Johnny Hamilton		Tommy Ewing			27y, 3m, 27d
			Willie Wallace		Jim Fleming			22y, 7m, 22d
			Tommy White		Billy Hainey			25y, 2m, 13d
			Alan Gordon		Neil Duffy			27y, 5m, 22d
			Tommy Traynor		Davie McParland			29y, 3m, 24d
								26y, 3m, 26d

TTA report

Hearts took the lead with a soft tap-in (8) but Duffy fired home a Hainey cross (33) and Fleming scored (38), again from a Hainey cross. The lead lasted less than 2 minutes however. Hearts went ahead (49), McParland saw his free-kick blocked and Hearts scored again (75) before Ewing's penalty (84).

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David Philip's scrapbook c/o Hearts Heritage

ongoing sequences:

● 137 consecutive competitive appearances for Davie McParland, 25th Nov 1961 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since the Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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