16th Oct 1943 Falkirk 4 Partick Thistle 3 (Southern League - game 9)

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Match Information

			Tully Craig		Donald Turner			62y, 8m, 15d
					Billy Millar
					James Anderson
Jimmy Inglis (0-1, 12 mins); John Fitzsimmons (3-2, pen 62 mins); Jimmy Inglis (3-3, 67 mins); Ken Dawson (3-4, 85 mins)					John Hammill (1-1, 25 mins); Willie Newall (2-1, 35 mins); Bill Shankly (3-1, pen 50 mins)
			future Jag Willie Nimmo		Bobby Henderson			26y, 0m, 12d
			James Stewart		Jimmy McGowan			27y, 4m, 6d
			Alex Peat		Peter Curran
			John Carrick		Bill Shankly			30y, 1m, 14d
			Bob Shankly		Bobby Parker			19y, 8m, 0d
			Hugh Stannage		Jack Howe			28y, 0m, 9d
			Duncan Ogilvie		Alex McSpadyen			28y, 9m, 27d
			Charles Napier		John Hammill			19y, 9m, 8d
			Jimmy Inglis		Willie Newall			22y, 11m, 21d
			future Jag John Fitzsimmons		John Leitch
			Ken Dawson		Billy Millar			19y, 2m, 22d
								24y, 7m, 29d

Match Report

TTA report

1-down in 12 mins, Thistle led 3-1 thanks to goals from Hammill (25), Newall (35) and Shankly (pen, 50). Somehow they managed to throw it away when Falkirk levelled (pen, 62 and 67) and found a winner (85). 11 games played and 23 players used underlined inconsistency of wartime selection.

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Evening Times, 16th October, 1943

Stats Watch

● 19-year-old Billy Millar makes his Thistle debut.

● Bill Shankly scores his first goal for Thistle.

ongoing sequences:

● 50 consecutive competitive appearances for Bobby Henderson, 22nd Aug 1942 to date. (Longest run since: Peter Curran - 53 games, 10th Aug 1940 to 4th Oct 1941. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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