16th Apr 1930 Partick Thistle 1 Rangers 2 (Scottish Cup Final replay)

matches:1929-30: ← 42game 4344 →

Match Information

49y, 2m, 16d			Donald Turner		Bill Struth
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John Torbet (1-1, 75 mins)					Jimmy Marshall (0-1, 41 mins); Tully Craig (1-2, 86 mins)
24y, 4m, 18d			Johnny Jackson		Tom Hamilton
24y, 4m, 13d			Stewart Calderwood		Dougie Gray
22y, 4m, 25d			Jimmy Rae		Bob Hamilton
25y, 3m, 6d			Alex Elliott		Whitey McDonald
33y, 0m, 1d			Alex Lambie		David Meiklejohn
22y, 8m, 19d			Eddie McLeod		Tully Craig
27y, 8m, 1d			Davie Ness		Sandy Archibald
27y, 5m, 6d			Bobby Grove		Jimmy Marshall
25y, 5m, 27d			George Boardman		Jimmy Fleming
30y, 5m, 20d			Johnny Ballantyne		Bob McPhail
26y, 6m, 22d			John Torbet		Alan Morton
26y, 4m, 3d

Match Report

TTA report

103,688 saw the replay but Thistle (in brown and gold hoops) were not as good, Rangers were better. Calderwood was off for attention when they scored (41) but Torbet equalised when he fired in a Grove cross on the volley (75). A lob from about 35 yards deceived Jackson (either unsighted or blinded by the setting sun, 86).

Scrapbook

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Dundee Courier, 16th April, 1930

Aberdeen Press & Journal, 17th April, 1930

The Scotsman, 17th April, 1930

Edinburgh Evening News, 17th April, 1930

Glasgow Herald, 16th April, 1930

Dundee Courier, 17th April, 1930

Dundee Evening Telegraph, 17th April, 1930

Athletic News, 21st April, 1930

Gallery

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• Curiously, both teams wore their change strips in the replay. (AFT)

• Jackson, the Thistle custodian, punching clear during a brisk bit of work. (DR)

• L to R: Craig (winning goal), Meiklejohn (captain) and Marshall (first goal). Much later on, the great David Meiklejohn would more than make it up to Thistle, we forgive him! (DR)

Stats Watch

OUSTED BY CUP WINNERS

● To this day, the attendance of 103,688 stands as the second-highest for a Thistle match, set just 4 days after the record.

● It was commonly reported that the attendance set a new British (and therefore possibly world) record for a midweek match.

● Thistle are knocked out of the Scottish Cup by the eventual winners for the fifth time.

● Thistle's 24th Cup Final, their second in the Scottish Cup. It's the second to be replayed.

● Thistle are Cup runners-up for the fifteenth time.

ongoing sequences:

● 179 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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