13th Oct 1934 Partick Thistle 1 Rangers 0 (Glasgow Cup Final)

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Match Information

53y, 8m, 12d			Donald Turner		Bill Struth
Bobby Johnstone; John Neish; George Wyllie
Archie Gourlay; Davie Ness; Hunter Lyle
Willie Miller (1-0, 58 mins)
22y, 11m, 7d			Bobby Johnstone		Jerry Dawson
28y, 10m, 10d			Stewart Calderwood		Dougie Gray
21y, 4m, 8d			George Cummings		Whitey McDonald
29y, 9m, 3d			Alex Elliott		David Meiklejohn
26y, 1m, 4d			Bob Donnelly		Jimmy Simpson
27y, 2m, 15d			Eddie McLeod		George Brown
23y, 8m, 29d			John Neish		Bobby Main
24y, 8m, 24d			Willie Miller		Archie McAuley
21y, 8m, 16d			George Wyllie		Jimmy Smith
34y, 11m, 16d			Johnny Ballantyne		Bob McPhail
25y, 2m, 5d			Peter Bain		Torry Gillick future Jag
26y, 0m, 17d

Match Report

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27,834 saw Thistle's 1st Glasgow Cup win after 48 years of trying thanks to a goal by Miller from 25 yards (58) followed by a magnificent rear-guard action - especially by Henderson, Calderwood and Cumming - as Rangers piled on the pressure.

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Dundee Evening Telegraph, 10th October, 1934

Sunday Post, 14th October, 1934

Daily Record, 15th October, 1934

Daily Record, 15th October, 1934

Glasgow Herald, 15th October, 1934

Gallery

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• How do! Smith, Rangers centre, pays a call on Johnstone, the PT goalkeeper. (DR)

• The Thistle players took the Glasgow Cup to the Adelphi for the after-match celebrations! (DR)

Who put the ball in the Rangers net?

Willie featured at #22 in our Top 25 countdown here on The Thistle Archive →

WILLIE MILLER

13.10.1934 Rangers [n] W1-0 (Glasgow Cup Final)
Willie Miller (1-0, 58 mins)

What this countdown really needs is a bit of silverware; enter Hampden stage left, Willie Miller.

Several seasons a Jag, the Camelon-born inside forward was playing his last season with the club. Willie clocked up more than 150 appearances in his time, with many important goals to his credit, but perhaps none more so than his strike on Saturday, 13th October, 1934.

That day, in front of 27,834 (a turnout affected by the heavy rain) he scored the only goal of the game in the Glasgow Cup Final at the national stadium. Rangers, the current Scottish champions, must have thought they had done all the hard work by beating Celtic in the semi-final, but they found Donald Turner's Jags too tough a nut to crack. The crucial counter in this hard-fought contest came in the 58th minute, as the conditions worsened. Willie, who had forced Jerry Dawson into a splendid save just 60 seconds earlier, had another go from 22-yards out. This time, luck was on his side; his shot took a deflection off half-back Jimmy Simpson, and Dawson was unable to adjust his feet.

Thus, history was made, and Thistle finally took custody of a much coveted trophy which had eluded them for nearly 50 years.

Sadly, the audio transcripts for this match, if they ever existed, will long-since have perished, so we shall have to use our imagination to relive what was sung down Mount Florida way that day. I'd rather like to think that Maurice Parry had introduced the Cwm Rhondda tune to the great Jaggy repertoire some 20-odd years earlier, and that our witty Great Grandads were in good form, singing and dancing in the rain… altogether now…

♪ Are you Benburb? Are you Benburb? Are you Benburb in disguise? ♫

Stats Watch

● Thistle play their 100th match in the Glasgow Cup.

● Thistle appear in their 26th Cup Final, their eighth in the Glasgow Cup.

● Thistle win their twelfth trophy.

ongoing sequences:

● 44 consecutive competitive appearances for Alex Elliott, 21st Oct 1933 to date. (Longest run since: George Cummings - 44 games, 26th Sep 1932 to 2nd Sep 1933. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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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