23rd Mar 1901 Partick Thistle 3 Morton 3 (Western League - game 5)

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Match Information

John Muirhead
David Proudfoot
John Spence (1-0, 5 mins); John Muirhead (2-0, 7 mins); Peter Campbell (3-2, og 2nd half)					Blue (2-1, 1st half); David Pearson (2-2, 2nd half); Thomas Glegg (3-3, 89 mins)
			Daniel Fletcher		Hugh McKenzie
21y, 4m, 14d			Alec Kay		George Brown
23y, 11m, 19d			William Hagart		Andrew Orr
20y, 10m, 8d			Tom Harvey		George Colligan
19y, 10m, 7d			Robert Campbell		Peter Campbell
28y, 5m, 22d			James Lamont		Herbert Craik
22y, 2m, 15d			Tom Atherton		Thomas Glegg
24y, 7m, 23d			Tom Gibbons		David Pearson former Jag
			John Spence		Blue
24y, 10m, 21d			William Reid [i]		James Stevenson
20y, 6m, 17d			John Muirhead		John Carrigan
22y, 11m, 21d

Match Report

TTA report

An exciting and hotly contested game saw Thistle take a 2-goal lead through Spence (5) and Muirhead (7, slipped the ball past the keeper from a corner). It was 2-1 at half-time and 2-2 early in the second half. Thistle pressed and an OG gave them the lead but Morton equalised on the final whistle.

Stats Watch

● 23-year-old William Hagart plays his last game for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 5 consecutive competitive away defeats; 29th Dec 1900 to date. (Longest run since: 5 defeats; 25th Feb 1899 to 13th May 1899. Club-record: 11 defeats; 4th Dec 1897 to 15th Oct 1898.)

● 25 games without a clean-sheet in the League; 9th Dec 1899 to date. (Longest run since: 28 games; 23rd Oct 1897 to 17th Dec 1898. Club-record: 35 games; 19th Aug 1893 to 18th May 1895.)

● 28 consecutive competitive appearances for Alec Kay, 25th Aug 1900 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since the joint club-record: Willie Freebairn - 44 games, 19th Aug 1899 to 27th Oct 1900 & Willie Freebairn - 44 games, 27th May 1893 to 13th Apr 1895.)

Stats Watch adheres to our stated definitions of League, League Max, Major Competitive, Competitive or All Games. Where there is no written qualification, you should presume that the Stat in question is compiled from the All Games criteria.

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