29th Sep 1952 Partick Thistle 3 Rangers 1 (Glasgow Cup Final)

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Match Information

51y, 9m, 17d			Davie Meiklejohn		Bill Struth
Andy Kerr
Davie Mathers
Bobby Howitt (1-1, 43 mins); Bobby Howitt (2-1, 67 mins); Johnny MacKenzie (3-1, 89 mins)					Johnny Hubbard (0-1, 21 mins)
21y, 6m, 16d			Alex Bell		George Niven future Jag
36y, 3m, 19d			Jimmy McGowan		George Young future Jag
30y, 7m, 24d			Bobby Gibb		John Little
23y, 7m, 11d			Bert Thomson		Ian McColl
26y, 10m, 21d			Jimmy Davidson		Willie Woodburn
21y, 3m, 0d			Andy Kerr		Sammy Cox
27y, 0m, 25d			Johnny MacKenzie		Willie McCulloch
23y, 2m, 14d			Bobby Howitt		Derek Grierson
30y, 4m, 4d			Willie Sharp		Willie Thornton
21y, 9m, 18d			Alex Wright		John Prentice
27y, 0m, 30d			Jimmy Walker		Johnny Hubbard
26y, 4m, 4d

Match Report

TTA report

Thistle were the more skilful side and Howitt was the best forward on view. Rangers scored (21) but Howitt levelled (43) then he dummied a defender and shot from the edge of the box to make it 2-1 (67). Rangers hit the bar (85) before MacKenzie picked his spot (89) with the Rangers' defence AWOL.

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Match Programme, 29th September, 1952

Evening Times, 29th September, 1952

Dundee Courier, 30th September, 1952

Glasgow Herald, 30th September, 1952

Daily Mirror, 30th September, 1952

Daily Express, 30th September, 1952

Gallery

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• Alex Bell thwarts a Rangers attack. Jimmy McGowan looks on anxiously and Jimmy Davidson is ready to act. (HA)

• Thistle skipper Jimmy McGowan is presented with the cup by Jimmy Kinloch and gets a handshake from Rangers chairman John Wilson. Also in the picture are Fred Denovan and George Brown. (PTS)

• McGowan aloft as the cup winners celebrate. (PTS)

Who put the ball in the Rangers net?

Bobby featured at #20 in our Top 25 countdown here on The Thistle Archive →

BOBBY HOWITT

29.09.1952 Rangers [n] W3-1 (Glasgow Cup Final)
Bobby Howitt (1-1, 43 mins); Bobby Howitt (2-1, 67 mins); Johnny MacKenzie (3-1, 89 mins)

This rocket-shot starlet of Davie Meiklejohn's highly successful team gave 7 seasons of great service to the Thistle cause as an inside forward, before going on to have a decent career which ended with an English Second Divison title with Stoke City as a player in 1962-63, and a Scottish Second Division title with Motherwell as a manager in 1968-69. Nothing phased Bobby - his first goal for Thistle came in the Glasgow Charity Cup Final against Celtic at Hampden Park in May '49, and the press were full of praise for the cool-headed teenager.

Another one of the many highlights in his happy days as a Jag came at Hampden Park on Monday, 29th September, 1952, as 46,435 bore witness to Thistle lifting the Glasgow Cup for only the third time in their history.

It was the 23-year-old Bobby Howitt who turned out to be the hero of the hour, equalising just before half-time and putting Thistle ahead midway through the second half. His wing partner, the late great Johnny MacKenzie, sealed the victory close on time to secure the Cup.

“Howitt’s leading goal was brilliantly made and taken. He ‘dummied’ Little from Thomson’s throw-in and, veering to Woodburn’s right, shot into the corner of the net from the edge of the penalty area – again with his left foot.” (The Glasgow Herald)

Rangers, not for the first or last time, had been well and truly Howittzered.

Go on Bobby!

Stats Watch

● Thistle appear in their 37th Cup Final, their eleventh in the Glasgow Cup.

● Thistle win their nineteenth trophy, their third Glasgow Cup.

ongoing sequences:

● 45 consecutive competitive appearances for Willie Sharp, 8th Sep 1951 to date, a new personal best. (Longest run since: Bobby Gibb - 61 games, 12th Sep 1950 to 22nd Dec 1951. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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