11th Aug 1962 Partick Thistle 1 Aberdeen 2 (League Cup Section 3 - game 1)

matches:1962-63: ← 47game 0102 →

Match Information

42y, 5m, 8d			Willie Thornton		Tommy Pearson
Joe Hogan; Sandy Brown; Billy Cunningham; Neil Duffy; Joe McBride
George Muir; Bobby Thomson; Dick Staite; Billy Hainey; Billy Gourley
Neil Duffy (1-2, 90 mins)					George Mulhall (0-1, 68 mins); Ken Brownlee (0-2, 87 mins)
33y, 2m, 0d			George Niven		John Ogston
24y, 5m, 18d			Joe Hogan		Ally Shewan
23y, 4m, 18d			Sandy Brown		Jimmy Hogg
21y, 2m, 10d			David Closs		Ken Brownlee
21y, 11m, 22d			Donnie McKinnon		George Kinnell
21y, 0m, 27d			Billy Cunningham		Doug Fraser
27y, 2m, 10d			George Smith		Bobby Cummings
25y, 5m, 4d			Neil Duffy		Billy Little
24y, 2m, 1d			Joe McBride		Ernie Winchester
23y, 9m, 29d			Gordon Whitelaw		Charlie Cooke
27y, 3m, 6d			Davie McParland		George Mulhall
24y, 9m, 29d

Match Report

TTA report

A bruising start to the season. McKinnon was taken to hospital with severe concussion (25). Brown and Hogan required treatment at one stage then Brown collapsed and Aberdeen scored while Thistle were down to 9 men (68). Hogan was taken off (70) and Aberdeen scored (87) but so did Duffy with a flying header from a Smith cross (90).

Stats Watch

● The opening game of the 88th season of Partick Thistle F.C.

● Thistle's seventeenth League Cup campaign gets underway.

ongoing sequences:

● 38 consecutive competitive appearances for Sandy Brown, 9th Sep 1961 to date. (Longest run since: Billy Cunningham - 40 games, 23rd Aug 1961 to 23rd Apr 1962. Club-record: Johnny Jackson - 313 games, 28th Aug 1926 to 25th Mar 1933.)

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