19th Jan 1929 East Fife 1 Partick Thistle 2 (Scottish Cup 1st Round)

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Match Information

			David McLean		George Easton			53/54y
					Bob Paton; Jimmy Richmond
					Stewart Calderwood; Johnny Ballantyne
Norman Sharkie (1-1, 85 mins)					John Torbet (1-0, 63 mins); John Torbet (2-1, pen 89 mins)
			John Garth		Johnny Jackson			23y, 1m, 21d
			John McGeechan		Denis O'Hare			28y, 11m, 29d
			Alex Duncan		Bob Paton			27y, 6m, 10d
			James Rarity		Jimmy Richmond			25y, 1m, 7d
			Joseph Gowdy		Alex Lambie			31y, 9m, 4d
			James Gabriel		Eddie McLeod			21y, 5m, 22d
			Philip Weir		Davie Ness			26y, 5m, 4d
			Colin Brown		Alex Elliott			24y, 0m, 9d
			Arthur McGachie		George Boardman			24y, 2m, 30d
			Norman Sharkie		William Fraser
			David Nairn		John Torbet			25y, 3m, 25d
								25y, 9m, 19d

Match Report

TTA report

All Thistle's forwards wasted chances in the first half and East Fife were lucky it was 0-0 at half-time. They were more in the game after the break but Torbet scored (63). A replay loomed large when the Fifers equalised (85) but under severe pressure a defender handled and Torbet scored with the pen (89).

Stats Watch

● Thistle make their first-ever visit to Bayview.

● Thistle's 44th Scottish Cup campaign gets underway.

ongoing sequences:

● 118 consecutive competitive appearances for Johnny Jackson, 28th Aug 1926 to date, a new personal best. (An extension of the club-record.)

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