1954–55 Dumbarton F.C. season

Dumbarton
1954–1955 season
Manager Peter McGown
Stadium Boghead Park, Dumbarton
Scottish League C Division (South West) 4th
Scottish Cup Third Round
Scottish Supplementary League Cup Prelims
Top goalscorer League: Hughie Gallacher (27)
All: Hughie Gallacher (32)

Season 1954–55 was the 78th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Cup for the 60th time.

Overview

With club finances re-structured, a new manager (Peter McGown having taken over from Willie Irvine) and a new youthful team in place, the season was approached with some confidence, in the knowledge that only winning the league would guarantee a return to the top 'tiers' of Scottish football.

However, things were not going to be easy, since apart from Stranraer, their league opponents would be the reserve (or 'A') sides of the bigger clubs from the top two divisions - and so it was to prove, for despite challenging strongly throughout the season, only a 4th place out of 13 was achieved, Nevertheless, league re-construction at the end of the season meant that the Divisions C were brought to an end, with Dumbarton, Stranraer, Montrose, East Stirling and Berwick Rangers all joining a revamped 19 team Second Division for season 1955-56.

In the Scottish Cup, there was an early exit with Dumbarton losing to Montrose in the third round.

No progress was made from the sectional games in the Supplementary League Cup, finishing 5th of 7, with four wins and two draws from 12 matches.

There was also a first round defeat in the Stirlingshire Cup, to East Stirling.

In addition to league and cup duties, a number of friendlies were played, including an impressive win against a strong Dundee side.

Results

Win
Draw
Loss

All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.

Scottish League

DateOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
6 November 1954Motherwell 'A'H3-0Johnston;Gallacher,H;Heaney
13 November 1954Airdrie 'A'A3-3Gallacher,H(3)
20 November 1954Ayr United 'A'A5-1Gallacher,H(2);Johnston;Heaney;Auld
27 November 1954Clyde 'A'H4-1Gallacher,H;Johnston;Anderson;Auld2,200
4 December 1954St Mirren 'A'H2-2Gallacher,H;Heaney
18 December 1954Motherwell 'A'A2-1Gallacher,H(2)
25 December 1954Queen's Park StrollersA3-4Gallacher,H;Heaney;OG
1 January 1955Rangers 'A'H1-1Gallacher,H
3 January 1955StranraerA3-3Heaney(2);Anderson
8 January 1955StranraerH1-3Gallacher,H
29 January 1955Queen of the South 'A'H3-1Liddell(3)
5 February 1955Third Lanark 'A'H2-0Johnston;Heaney
12 February 1955Kilmarnock 'A'H2-1McKay;Heaney
19 February 1955Queen's Park StrollersH2-1McDonald;Heaney2,100
5 March 1955Airdrie 'A'H7-1Gallacher,H(3);Liddell(3);Johnston
12 March 1955Ayr United 'A'H1-1Gallacher,H
19 March 1955Clyde 'A'A1-4Gallacher,H
26 March 1955St Mirren 'A'H1-1Gallacher,H
9 April 1955Partick Thistle 'A'A4-1Gallacher,H(3);McDonald
16 April 1955Queen of the South 'A'H4-1Gallacher,H(2);Vine;Auld
18 April 1955Third Lanark 'A'A2-1Gallacher,H(2)
23 April 1955Kilmarnock 'A'A0-4
27 April 1955Rangers 'A'A0-3
30 April 1955Partick Thistle 'A'H2-8Gallacher,H;OG

League table

Top Four

P Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Partick Thistle 'A' 24 18 4 2 89 36 53 40
2 Rangers 'A' 24 16 4 4 53 26 27 36
3 St Mirren 'A' 24 14 6 4 57 39 18 34
4 Dumbarton 24 12 6 6 58 46 12 30

Scottish Cup

DateRdOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
9 October 19543MontroseA1-3Anderson2,000

Scottish Supplementary League Cup

DateRdOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
14 August 1954PThird Lanark 'A'A0-1
18 August 1954PRangers 'A'H2-3Hepburn;Clements
21 August 1954PSt Mirren 'A'H0-3
25 August 1954PQueen's Park StrollersH2-1Duff(2)
28 August 1954PThird Lanark 'A'H1-0Gallacher,H
1 September 1954PClyde 'A'A2-2McCall;Gallacher,H
8 September 1954PQueen's Park StrollersA1-0McCall
13 September 1954PSt Mirren 'A'H2-4McCall;Walsh
18 September 1954PClyde 'A'H0-2
2 October 1954PPartick Thistle 'A'H2-0Gallacher,H(2)
25 April 1955PPartick Thistle 'A'A1-1Gallacher,H
2 May 1955PRangers 'A'A0-2

Section Table

P Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Rangers 'A' 12 10 1 1 33 17 15 21
2 St Mirren 'A' 12 6 3 3 30 18 12 15
3 Partick Thistle 'A' 12 7 1 4 32 22 10 15
4 Clyde 'A' 12 4 3 5 23 28 –5 11
5 Dumbarton 12 4 2 6 13 19 –6 10
6 Queens Park Strollers 12 2 2 8 16 28 –12 6
7 Third Lanark 'A' 12 3 0 9 20 35 –15 6

Stirlingshire Cup

DateRdOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
23 October 19541East StirlingH2-4Gallacher,H;Vine

Other Matches

DateOpponentVenueResultScorersAttendance
5 August 1954Third LanarkA1-2unknown
11 September 1954DundeeA1-0Gallacher,H
25 September 1954Kilmarnock 'A'H4-2Gallacher,H(2);unknown
16 October 1954Hibernian 'A'H0-3
11 December 1954Hearts 'A'H2-3Gallacher,H;Welsh2,000
26 February 1955Motherwell 'A'H0-8

Appearances

Dumbarton used 38 players for the 37 League, Scottish Cup and Scottish Supplementary League Cup matches, as detailed below. John McKay was best as the only player to feature in all of these matches. Note that unnamed trialist(s) played in two occasions.[1]

Player Position[2] Appearances Goals
Scotland Anderson FW 173
Scotland Bertie Auld FW 193
Scotland Les Brown FW 6
Scotland Joe Cadden MF 7
Scotland Clements FW 11
Scotland Don Cornock MF 30
Scotland Tommy Craig MF 2
Scotland Jim Davie MF 5
Scotland Docherty FW 1
Scotland Duff FW 22
Scotland Jackie Fearn FW 1
Scotland Jimmy Finnie FW 1
Scotland Fraser FW 1
Scotland Hugh Gallacher FW 3432
Scotland Joe Gallacher MF 25
Scotland Willie Gibson FW 1
Scotland Gilhooly MF 8
Scotland Jim Gray DF 33
Scotland John Heaney FW 269
Scotland Tony Hepburn FW 21
Scotland Tommy Irwin MF 1
Scotland Joe Johnston FW 225
Scotland Lawrence Leslie GK 1
Scotland George Liddell FW 106
Scotland Jim Maguire FW 2
Scotland Alex Mayberry FW 2
Scotland Gerry McCaffrey FW 2
Scotland John McCall MF 323
Scotland McCloy FW 4
Scotland Jimmy McDonald FW 21
Scotland John McKay DF 37
Scotland Moran MF 4
Scotland Wallace Murdoch GK 22
Scotland Jimmy Ritchie GK 15
Scotland Sandford FW 2
Scotland Jimmy Timmins FW 1
Scotland Jim Vine FW 111
Scotland Walsh FW 151

Reserve Team

Dumbarton only played one official 'reserve' match in the Second XI Cup, losing in the first round to Clyde, after a replay.

See also

References

  1. McAllister, Jim (2002). The Sons of the Rock - The Official History of Dumbarton Football Club. Dumbarton: J&J Robertson Printers.
  2. The usual formation would be 2-3-5 (two defenders, three midfielders and five forwards).

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