12th Apr 1937 Dundee 2 Partick Thistle 2 (SFL First Division - game 37)

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Match Information

			Billy McCandless		Donald Turner			56y, 2m, 12d
					Stewart Calderwood; John Abbie; Edwin Watson; John McMenemy
					Alex Stevenson; Alex McSpadyen; John Wallace; Horace Woolley
Norman Kirby (0-1, pen 21 mins); Arthur Baxter (1-2, 55 mins)					Peter McKennan (1-1, 36 mins); Peter McKennan (2-2, 81 mins)
			Bill Marsh		Bobby Johnstone			25y, 5m, 6d
			Bobby Rennie		Stewart Calderwood			31y, 4m, 9d
			John Reddish		Jimmy Stewart
			Jimmy Guthrie		Alex Elliott			32y, 3m, 2d
			Johnny Evans		George Sutherland			22y, 6m, 7d
			Tom Smith		Hugh Baigrie			25y, 0m, 19d
			John Latimer		John Abbie			17y, 4m, 13d
			Arthur Baxter		Peter McKennan			18y, 8m, 27d
			Archie Coats		Edwin Watson			22y, 10m, 15d
			Billy Phillips		John McMenemy			30y, 11m, 18d
			Norman Kirby		Alf Smith
								25y, 2m, 3d

Match Report

TTA report

A good match with several patches of clever play. Dundee took the lead with a penalty (21) but Thistle equalised (36) when McKennan (standing on the goal line) shot home deflected off the keeper. Dundee went ahead in the second half, they missed a penalty then McKennan got his 2nd from a corner (81).

Gallery

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• Guthrie free-kick; dearie me, mind the gap! (DC)

Stats Watch

● 22-year-old Edwin Watson makes his Thistle debut.

ongoing sequences:

● 6 competitive away games without a win; 20th Feb 1937 to date. (Longest run since: 22 games; 10th Aug 1935 to 6th May 1936. Club-record: 25 games; 20th Apr 1908 to 28th Aug 1909.)

● 8 League games without a win; 20th Feb 1937 to date. (Longest run since: 10 games; 15th Feb 1936 to 25th Apr 1936. Club-record: 26 games; 28th Nov 1908 to 2nd Oct 1909.)

● 10 away League games without a win; 12th Dec 1936 to date. (Longest run since the club-record: 26 games; 20th Mar 1935 to 29th Aug 1936.)

● 10 competitive games without a win, 20th Feb 1937 to date. (Longest run since: 10 games, 15th Feb 1936 to 25th Apr 1936. Club-record: 26 games, 28th Nov 1908 to 28th Aug 1909.)

● 14 games without a clean-sheet in the League; 1st Jan 1937 to date. (Longest run since: 17 games; 15th Feb 1936 to 8th Sep 1936. Club-record: 46 games; 20th Apr 1908 to 30th Oct 1909.)

● 15 away games without a clean-sheet in the League; 26th Sep 1936 to date. (Longest run since: 26 games; 20th Mar 1935 to 29th Aug 1936. Club-record: 40 games; 1st Feb 1908 to 17th Sep 1910.)

● 47 consecutive competitive appearances for Bobby Johnstone, 2nd May 1936 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Stewart Calderwood - 66 games, 11th Aug 1934 to 7th Dec 1935. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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