20th Jan 1917 Rangers 3 Partick Thistle 0 (SFL - game 23)

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Match Information

			William Wilton		George Easton			41/42y
					Joe Harris; Muir Honeyman; Dougie Morrison
					Tom Adams; John Durnin; Billy Leitch
James Riddell (0-1, 2 mins); Charlie Duncan (0-2, 2nd half); Charlie Duncan (0-3, 2nd half)
					Dougie Morrison (John McIntrye, 4 mins)
			John Hempsey		Jim Ferguson			20y, 5m, 7d
			Bert Manderson		Joe Harris			23y, 10m, 1d
			James Blair		Willie Bulloch			33y, 11m, 2d
			Peter Pursell		Neil Harris			22y, 2m, 21d
			future Jag James Riddell		James Gardiner
			Harold McKenna		Jimmy McMullan			22y, 11m, 13d
			Scott Duncan		Muir Honeyman			21y, 9m, 15d
			James Bowie		Jock McTavish			31y, 7m, 13d
			Charlie Duncan		Willie Whittle			26y, 9m, 11d
			James Martin		Dougie Morrison			22y, 10m, 0d
			Fred Croot		John Bowie			22y, 0m, 8d
								24y, 10m, 2d
			n-a		John McIntyre			22y, 0m, 16d

notes

The DR have Patrick Morgan as the oncoming sub, but this is at odds with the SC, GH and SP, all of whom say it was John McIntyre, and we go with that majority view.

Match Report

TTA report

Already under strength because of injuries, Thistle went behind (2). Morrison missed a sitter when his knee gave way and he went off injured (3). With Rangers' kind permission a sub (McIntyre) came on. Two second half goals killed off a poor game that Thistle never looked like getting anything from.

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Sunday Post, 21st January, 1917

Daily Record, 22nd January, 1917

Stats Watch

● 22-year-old Dougie Morrison plays his last game for Thistle.

● Almost 50 years before substitutes were allowed in Scottish League matches (the first official substitute in a Scottish League match was Paul Conn for Queen's Park v. Albion Rovers in a Division 2 match on 24th August 1966) Rangers, Thistle and the referee took it upon themselves to make up their own rules in a First Division match at Ibrox on 20th January 1917. Our Morrison was injured after only 5 minutes play and the three parties agreed that Thistle could replace him with McIntyre. The gesture was terrifically sporting and was reported positively in the press as “an innovation”. Presumably the clubs in question were reprimanded because the incident remained isolated in Scottish League Football for another 49 years!

ongoing sequences:

● 23 consecutive competitive appearances for John Bowie (a new personal best) and Willie Bulloch, 26th Aug 1916 to date. (Longest run since: Tom Adams - 31 games, 15th Apr 1916 to 13th Jan 1917. Club-record: Jock McTavish - 61 games, 15th Nov 1913 to 6th Feb 1915.)

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