[3] The club was one of the four founding members of the Edinburgh Football Association, formed in September 1875, with the 3rd E.R.V., Heart of Midlothian F.C., and Hanover.

won through and beat Thistle 1–0 in a second round match replayed after the original game was abandoned through rain.

[5] The same season saw the first Edinburgh Football Association cup, the first regional knockout tournament in Scotland.

in the first round of the Edinburgh Cup 2–1, thanks to a late goal from Cochrane, and survived a protest from Hibs that an encroaching crowd (which sometimes was a yard inside the lines) had prevented an equalizer.

[9] The swift growth of the game soon left Thistle behind and before the 1877–78 season the club lost a number of members, "and is not so strong as it has been".