1898–99 Dumbarton F.C. season

Dumbarton
1898–99 season
Stadium Boghead Park, Dumbarton
Scottish Cup First Round
Top goalscorer League:
All: Willie Speedie
← 1897–98 1899–1900 →

Season 1898–99 was the 26th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level entering the Scottish Cup for the 26th time and the Scottish Qualifying Cup for the first time.

Overview

For a second season Dumbarton were without league fixtures, and the task of building a fixture list with attractive opponents was becoming more difficult.

Since 1895, the smaller clubs required to enter the Scottish Qualifying Cup in order to gain access to the Scottish Cup proper. This season, for the first time, Dumbarton were required to pre-qualify for the Scottish Cup and did so by reaching the fourth round of the Qualifying Cup before losing out to Renton.

Dumbarton's appearance in the Scottish Cup itself was short-lived and were knocked out in the first round by East Stirlingshire.[1]

Locally, however, Dumbarton continued to dominate by retaining the Dumbartonshire Cup, beating Vale of Leven in a two-legged semi final then Renton in the final.

During the season, 15 'other' matches were played, including close defeats home and away against Celtic, and fixtures against Ayrshire Cup holders, Kilmarnock, Lanarkshire Cup holders, Airdrie and Perthshire Cup holders, Fair City Athletic. Of these matches, 6 were won and 9 lost, scoring 45 goals and conceding 45.

Results

Win
Draw
Loss

All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.

Scottish Cup

DateRdOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
14 January 1899R1East StirlingshireA1-4Gillies4,000

Scottish Qualifying Cup

DateRdOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
24 September 1898R1LinthouseH6-2Speedie(2);Littlejohn(2);Thomson;Miller;J
8 October 1898R2ThornliebankA4-2Speedie;Littlejohn;unknown(2)
22 October 1898R3Glasgow UniversityH7-1Miller,J(3);Speedie(2);Littlejohn(2)
5 November 1898R4RentonA2-3Speedie;unknown

Dumbartonshire Cup

DateRdOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
11 February 1899SF1Vale of LevenA2-3Speedie(2)
25 February 1899SF2Vale of LevenH4-0Mackie;unknown(3)
22 April 1899FRentonA6-3Speedie(2);Mackie(2);unknown(2)600

Other matches

DateOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
24 August 1898CelticH1–3Mackie4,500
27 August 1898Vale of LevenA3–0Ward(2);Mackie
17 September 1898KilmarnockA2–8unknown
1 October 1898RentonH2–3unknown
15 October 1898Scottish Amateur XIH3–4Gillies(2);Morrice
10 November 1898CelticA2–3Littlejohn;Speedie2,500
26 November 1898LinthouseH5–3Speedie(2);Gillies;Miller,J;Wingate
3 December 1898Queen's ParkA2–8Mackie;Speedie
10 December 1898AirdrieH7–1Miller,J(2);Wingate(2)Speedie;Morrice;Littlejohn
24 December 1898RentonA0–2
7 January 1899King's ParkH6–0Miller,J(2);Morrice;Mackie;Gillies;Wingate
4 February 1899DundeeA3–5Wingate;unknown(2)
18 February 1899RentonH4–1Lang;Speedie;Gillies;unknown
18 March 1899Fair City AthleticA3–4unknown
8 April 1899Ayr ParkhouseA2–0unknown

Appearances

Dumbarton used 14 players for 5 Scottish Cup and Qualifying Cup matches, as detailed below.[2]

Player Position[3] Appearances Goals[4]
Scotland John Gillan HB 4
Scotland Alexander Gillies FW 41
Scotland Robert Hendry FW 1
Scotland Kennedy HB 4
Scotland James Littlejohn FW 45
Scotland Lewis Mackie FW 5
Scotland Andrew Mauchlen BK 5
Scotland G Millar GK 5
Scotland John Miller FW 54
Scotland Henry Mitchell HB 3
Scotland Morrice HB 5
Scotland Willie Speedie FW 56
Scotland Daniel Thomson BK 41
Scotland Thomas Wingate FW 1

Reserve Team

Dumbarton lost in the second round of the Scottish Second XI Cup to Rangers.

Scottish Second XI Cup

DateRdOpponentVenueResult
?R1RentonA?
?R2RangersH?

See also

References

  1. ↑ Smailes, Gordon (1995). The Breedon Book of Scottish Football Records. Derby: Breedon Books. ISBN 1-85983-020-X.
  2. ↑ McAllister, Jim (2002). The Sons of the Rock - The Official History of Dumbarton Football Club. Dumbarton: J&J Robertson Printers.
  3. ↑ The usual formation would be 2-3-5 (two backs, three half backs and five forwards).
  4. ↑ Due to the limited reporting of football at the time, the scorers of 3 of the 19 goals scored in Scottish Qualifying Cup matches are unknown.

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