Season 1958-59

The 1958-59 cup trail began with St. Mirren staring superstition in the face by agreeing to play Peebles Rovers on Friday the thirteenth February, in the first-ever floodlit match at Love Street.  This proved to be far from unlucky as the Saints, on a bonus for the number of goals scored, rattled in ten without reply.

After disposing of Motherwell and Dunfermline, Saints lined up at Hampden on the 1st of April against Celtic in the semi-final with this team.

Walker, Lapsley, Wilson, Neilson, McGugan, Leishman, Rodger, Bryceland, Baker, Gemmell and Miller.

Celtic started as favourites, but Alistair Miller had other ideas and constantly tormented the Celtic defence. He scored twice and assisted in further goals from Bryceland and Baker to earn a 4-0 victory that made Scottish football take notice of the men from Paisley.

In the final on the 25th of April, the same eleven men were entrusted with the task of bringing the cup to Paisley.

As in the League Cup final of 1955 Aberdeen were the opposition, but this time they were not as clear favourites.  

Once again Alistair Miller was on top form and led the Saints to a memorable 3-1 win scoring once with the other goals coming from Baker and Bryceland.  
As Paisley celebrated, the Saints team were joined by 1926 hero Davie McCrae who had kept his promise to keep his celebratory whiskey until the cup returned to Paisley. 1959 skipper Davie Lapsley had the first drink from the bottle.

Another piece of silverware arrived at Love Street in April when the reserves defeated Motherwell 3-2 over two legs in the final of the 2nd XI cup. Following the Scottish Cup win Saints were invited to play FA Cup holders Nottingham Forest in an Anglo-Scottish Challenge. Goals from Laird (2), Bryceland, Kerrigan and Baker gave Saints a 5-4 aggregate win.