Partick Thistle - The Early Years
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The Sporting Times of 26 August 1899 reported a Sunday School teacher’s frustration at his charges’ obsession with football and Willie Paul.
In 1905 referee (and ex Thistle player) John McCorkindale was attacked after a Morton v Rangers match.
In 1904 William Ward was Partick Thistle President. Sports newspaper Athletic News profiled him and we reproduce the profile here.
At the age of 17 W.W. (William) Tennent signed for Partick Thistle. William was still a schoolboy at Glasgow High School.
Thistle signed Carrick Hamilton from Queen’s Park during the close season of 1905.
Andrew Swan joined Thistle in the summer of 1905, having spent time playing a handful of games Tottenham Hotspur in the Southern League.
John Boag was one of the pioneers of football in Partick, having been a player and secretary with the Partick FC club who played at Inchview in the late 1870s and early 1880s until they folded at the end of the 1884-85 season.
In 1903 Thistle goalkeeper Tom Wilkie was just one of two top class goalkeepers on the Partick Thistle books – the other being Willie Howden. Tom met with a Weekly Record reporter in 1903 to talk about his career.
