| J. McKenzie |
 J. McKenzie (forename unknown) was probably born in Scotland, although his place and date of birth remain unknown to us. * The midfielder first appeared for Thistle in December, 1891. He made his first known appearance on Saturday, 12th December, 1891, in a 9-4 defeat away to Northern in the Scottish Alliance League. There were no known goals for McKenzie during his spell with Thistle. He played his last known game for the club on Monday, 4th April, 1892, in a 9-1 friendly defeat away to The Wednesday, having appeared for the Thistle on at least 3 occasions. His known club-list included only Partick Thistle. We don't know where or when McKenzie died. *
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 This half-back spent one season at Inchview, but was mainly a reserves player. Thistle were founding members of the Scottish Alliance for 1891-92, a league set-up by the disgruntled clubs overlooked by the new Scottish Football League. McKenzie played once in this new league, a bizarre 4-9 defeat to Northern played in a December blizzard, during which many players retired of their own accord, lest they freeze to death! Even more bizarrely, McKenzie had two further cracks as a firat teamer. He was part of the touring party to England in April 1892 and Thistle again conceded nine in both of these games, losing 1-9 to Bootle and 1-9 to The Wednesday. McKenzie was an oncoming sub (at 0-1) in the latter game, and there's even a chance it may not have been him. The Sheffield Daily Telegraph alone (5/4/1892) contends that the oncoming McKenzie in that game was a Wednesday player, but have they got it right? We can find no McKenzie who played for Wednesday at that time and our McKenzie was involved at Bootle just 2 days earlier. The chances of 2 different McKenzies 2 days apart on an English tour seem unlikely. Why would we not use our own McKenzie as sub if he was in the party? The Sheffield Independent frames it as by "permission of the home club" and that seems more like it. |
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