30th Aug 1924 Morton 1 Partick Thistle 6 (SFL First Division - game 4)

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Match Information

			Bob Cochrane		George Easton			49y
					Jimmy Gibson; Jimmy McMullan; Hugh Collins
					Harry Chatton; Alex Donald; Jimmy Kinloch
John Buchanan (5-1, 85 mins)					Alex Lambie (1-0, 1 min); Davie Ness (2-0, 10 mins); Willie Salisbury (3-0, 40 mins); Bobby Grove (4-0, 60 mins); Hugh Collins (5-0, 2nd half); Willie Salisbury (6-1, 90 mins)
			David Edwards		Joe Ramsay			23y, 5m, 1d
			Robert Moir		Bob Paton			23y, 1m, 21d
			Robert Orr		Tom Crichton			31y, 2m, 2d
			John Buchanan		Jimmy Gibson			23y, 2m, 25d
			former Jag Jimmy Gourlay		Alex Lambie			27y, 4m, 15d
			William Allan		Jimmy McMullan			30y, 6m, 23d
			Ronald Cameron		Davie Ness			22y, 0m, 15d
			Robert McKay		Bobby Grove			21y, 9m, 20d
			John Gordon		Hugh Collins			24y, 4m, 2d
			Alfred Brown		Sandy Hair			26y, 5m, 21d
			Malcolm McPhail		Willie Salisbury			25y, 6m, 7d
								25y, 4m, 14d

Match Report

TTA report

Thistle's biggest ever win at Cappielow saw the home team humiliated. Lambie scored from a corner (1) then Salisbury (2), Collins, Grove and Ness completed the rout. “The winners played brilliant football” (SC). Gibson and McMullan were outstanding and were the foundation of the win.

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Glasgow Herald, 1st September, 1924

Stats Watch

● Thistle's joint-record margin of victory over Morton.

● Thistle score 6 goals in an away League game, matching the joint club-record set on 24-Aug-1895 & 13-Feb-1897.

ongoing sequences:

● 15 competitive away games without a clean-sheet; 22nd Dec 1923 to date. (Longest run since: 22 games; 18th Mar 1922 to 10th Feb 1923. Club-record: 90 games; 31st Oct 1885 to 23rd Jan 1897.)

● 15 consecutive competitive appearances for Bobby Grove, 18th Mar 1924 to date. (Longest run since: Sandy Hair - 20 games, 31st Dec 1923 to 5th Apr 1924. Club-record: Jock McTavish - 61 games, 15th Nov 1913 to 6th Feb 1915.)

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