Aberdeen defeated Elgin City in two previous Scottish Cup clashes with Pittodrie goal legends Joe Harper and Matt Armstrong prominent in shooting the Borough Briggs side down
Aberdeen’s visit to Elgin City on Saturday will be the third Scottish Cup meeting between the clubs.
The previous two clashes reveal some unique connections between the sides - and some incredible numbers.
The first took place 87 years ago, as a then record Borough Briggs crowd of 8,403 welcomed a Dons side who only months earlier played in front of 147,365 fans in the Hampden cup final against Celtic - to this day the biggest-ever European domestic football attendance.
That Elgin match on January 22, 1938 saw an excellent Dons side win 6-1, with two of their goals scored by legendary striker Matt Armstrong.
Armstrong is Aberdeen’s second-highest goalscorer of all-time with 156 goals and earned three Scotland caps - he scored the Dons’ goal in a 2-1 loss to Celtic in the 1937 final.
At the end of his career he joined Elgin as player-manager where he netted an astonishing 126 Highland League goals in just 81 appearances - making him a centurion for both clubs.
Sandy MacLennan grabbed the Elgin goal in that cup clash, with Willie Mills, another to score more than 100 goals for the Dons in his career, on target twice for the visitors.
Also scoring for the Pittodrie side at Borough Briggs was South African Bill Strauss, whose sporting career also includes a century - albeit in a change of sport as he later took up cricket and scored 100 runs at The Oval in a minor counties match in 1950.
The most recent Scottish Cup meeting between Elgin and Aberdeen in 1971 shares a common factor with the 1938 tie.
For in both games, the Dons took on City having reached the Scottish Cup final in the previous campaign. On this occasion, Aberdeen were cup holders after their famous 3-1 success over Jock Stein’s Celts and many of the Lisbon Lions in the 1970 showpiece game - over 108,000 saw that classic.
Scheduled to be played at Pittodrie on Saturday, January 23, 1971, the game was postponed with a large travelling army of City fans already on their way to the Granite City.
It was rescheduled for the following Monday night, with an impressive attendance of 24,136 packing into the ground.
Just like in 1938, a player who graced both clubs played in the contest but this time in Elgin’s ranks.
The late Ally Shewan, who died only a year ago, featured in over 200 appearances over the Dons throughout the sixties, where he was described as a tough-tackling full back. He became a club record £3,000 Elgin signing in 1969 and won two Highland League titles with the Black and Whites.
Shewan tried to marshal the City defence against a potent Dons line-up who were threatening to end Celtic’s Scottish football dominance at the time.
Aberdeen’s class told in the end as two goals from the club’s greatest-ever goalscorer, Joe Harper and two more from another Dons strike hero, Jim Forrest and one from Steve Murray helped guide the Reds to a 5-0 victory.
Who will grab the headlines in the third Scottish Cup clash between the north pair on Saturday?