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		William Hodge; Bob Campbell; Walter Edgar; Hugh Osborne; Willie Paul
		John McMoreland; Peter Rodger; William Alder; James Miller; J. Miller

Blythe (0-1, 30 mins); ? (2-3, 75 mins); John Shanks (3-3, 2nd half); George Adams (3-4, 2nd half); Blythe (3-5, 2nd half); John Shanks (3-6, 2nd half); Robert McFarlane (3-7, 2nd half); John Shanks (3-8, 2nd half)		Hugh Osborne (1-1, 50 mins); Willie Paul (2-1, 2nd half); Willie Paul (3-1, 2nd half)


	Fyfe	Charles Simpson
	Peter Maxwell	William Hodge
	Rooney	Bob Campbell	25y, 3m, 10d
	James McPherson	Jacky Robertson
	Robert McFarlane	John A. Harvey
	James Masterton	Walter Edgar
	Blythe	Andrew Stewart	21y, 0m, 12d
	George Aitken	Hugh Osborne
	John Shanks	Willie Paul	26y, 8m, 1d
	William Edgar	James Mulvey
	George Adams	Robert Murray

			24y, 3m, 28d

Teamlines per GH (excepting Cowlairs #11), OH concurs for Thistle (albeit in a different forward-line order).
We've interpreted the GH's (otherwise unknown) Mulroy as our (James) Mulvey of the period, and this is backed up by the GEP and EC. We take a side note that the GEP lists an unknown (Aitken) at no.6 for Thistle at the expense of Walter Edgar.
Cowlairs' Edgars are listed as (1) and (2) in the GH. The GEP/SR list them as Edgar and Adams, and the EC lends terrific weight to those papers by naming Adams as the scorer of Cowlairs 4th. We've therefore removed the GH's secondary William Edgar, replacing him with George Adams.

EC credits (the otherwise unheard of) Shaw with Thistle's opener, but the OH (by process of elimination) says it was Hugh Osborne and this is backed up by the GH report, so we've dismissed the EC account. The EC also credits James Mulvey with Thistle's second, with the GH describing it as a scrimmage. The SR doesn't commit to sequence but the editorial states that Paul, Murray, Osbourne and Campbell showed up prominently and that Paul and Osbourne were instrumental in obtaining the goals for Thistle. There's no mention of Shaw or Mulvey. We therefore stick with Willie Paul as per the OH in the meantime. Also from the SR editorial, it's suggested that William Edgar, James McPherson and George Aitken were second half scorers for Cowlairs, but there's nothing specific to go on in terms of sequence. By contrast, the EC report has 7 of the 8 Cowlairs scorers named in sequence, so it's easier to fall in line with that account, so we've dismissed the aforementioned three, none of whom are listed scorers in the EC! What can you do? In terms of doubly corroborated contemporary accounts, Blythe and Shanks are listed respectively as scorers of the first and third in both the GH and EC.

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