Date	Saturday, 03 September 1932
Competition	Highland League
Fixture/Score	Inverness Thistle 3:2 Ross County
Venue	Kingsmills
Referee
Ross County
Manager	The Management Committee
Starting 11	1: Peter Brett, 2: Thomas Anderson, 3: Hector Stewart, 4: Dick Traill, 5: Ackie Urquhart, 6: Roddie Garrow, 7: J Black, 8: Ian Aird 1, 9: Fred MacLeod, 10: Alexander (Ackie) MacPherson 1, 11: Robert MacLeod
Bench
Attendance
Match Report	Report from the Ross-shire Journal. Inverness Thistle 3 Ross County 2 Ross County are playing on the crest of a wave! On Saturday at Inverness, the largest crowd of the season turned out to see them meet Thistle in the League, their victory over the same team at Dingwall the previous week having stirred the Invernessians' imaginations—it was so decisive and altogether unexpected. The crowd were in no wise disappointed. They were treated to a stirring encounter, the only disappointed people being the County supporters, who thought their side were entitled to at least a draw. And so it might have been. Those last-minute misses by the County forwards will take a lot of forgetting! In the opening exchanges, Gowl all but scored in the first seconds. The County reply came quickly, Aird’s drive being luckily blocked by Eddie Fraser's heel. The ball travelled quickly from end to end. Eight minutes from the start, Thistle were ahead, blunders by three County defenders giving Gowl an easy road to goal. First Urquhart miskicked; Stewart rushed in, but also missed the ball, while Anderson, covering up, followed suit. Brett was to be sympathised with; he got no earthly chance with the centre’s shot. Two minutes after this success, Thistle secured a second point, Gowl scoring off a splendid cross from F. Mackenzie. Although holding a two-goal lead, Thistle were by no means the superior team the score suggested. The County were moving sweetly, were strong at back, and clever on the wings and inside positions. Cowie reduced the leeway after Macpherson had made the opening. Cowie's scoring shot was perfect, and his success deserved. Attacks developed on the County wings. Cowie was the brains of the movements, and after realising that Aird had his two usual policemen, he played to Black, who forced a corner, and from the flag kick Macpherson nearly lifted the net off in scoring the equaliser. Of a team that could come back and wipe off a two-goal deficit, great things were expected in the second half, and the “great things” were there all right, but goals the County could not get. By this time Urquhart had played himself into the centre-half berth, but was still prone to give Gowl too much rope, and it was through a mistake by Urquhart that, much against the run of play, Thistle went ahead. Urquhart breasted a ball which he should have kicked, and the result was that Ballentyne got possession, slipped it to the awaiting Gowl, who promptly made goalwards, and Brett never had a chance with the centre’s shot. Again on the drag, the County were not in the least put out. They hammered hard on the Thistle defence but try as they would, they could not get the ball past Macdonald. Brett, from break-aways, had two fine saves, one of which he did well to fist clear. It was now the County lost their great opportunity. Three balls in succession came from Black, all of them inviting chances, but somehow the forwards were not up to give the ball the necessary flick into the net. The County team, as already stated, was a good one, but it was better the week before with Anderson at centre-half. Urquhart, always a fine footballer, played football instead of indulging in Anderson’s first-time clearances. Garrow was the only shining light in the half-line; Cowie the pick of the forwards, while Brett, in goal, was to be sympathised with in the loss of three goals which he could not prevent.