I was born in the 1970's so never had a chance to see the great team play. What happened to the club was a disgrace in 1967, but its a testament to supporters like Bert Bell etc that the name is still rightly as famous as ever. I look forward to reading peoples stories and memories of the HiHi
I'm a Killie fan and can remember as a small boy seeing Third Lanark a few times at Rugby Park. The last time was a Summer Cup match in 1965 which Killie won 6-2. We had just won the League less than a month earlier and Thirds had been relegated so that was their last visit to Kilmarnock. Can't remember too much about the Thirds team other than Big Doug Baillie kicking everything that moved, including- occasionally - the ball!
There's also a famous game between the two teams (before my time), again at Rugby Park, in 1954 which ended in a 1-1 draw when both were aiming for promotion from the B Division. There were over 20,000 there - an incredible crowd by any standard. By all accounts the man of the match was Thirds' Ally McLeod, then just starting out on his long career in football
