1955–56 Dumbarton F.C. season

Dumbarton

1955–1956 season

Manager

Peter McGown

Stadium

Boghead Park, Dumbarton

Scottish League B Division

4th

Scottish Cup

Fourth Round

Scottish League Cup

Quarter Final

Top goalscorer

League: Hugh Gallacher (36)
All: Hugh Gallacher (46)

← 1954–55

1956–57 →

Season 1955–56 was the 79th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 49th time, the Scottish Cup for the 61st time and the Scottish League Cup for the 9th time.

Overview

While the return to the 'top' divisions in Scottish League football did not, in the end, produce the hoped for promotion, nevertheless there were many positives to be taken from a successful season. Dumbarton were always challenging the top places in Division B throughout the campaign and eventually finished up 4th of 19, only 7 points behind champions Queen's Park (and just 4 short of a promotion place).

In the Scottish Cup, Dumbarton negotiated a tricky tie against Highland League opposition, before losing out to Dundee United.

For the first time, Dumbarton qualified from their League Cup section, winning 3 and drawing the other of their 4 matches. In a play off, Morton were seen off - before Division A St Mirren were to prove to be too much for them in the quarter final.

The Stirlingshire Cup semi final tie was a thriller, where Dumbarton lost by the odd goal in an 11 goal feast against A Division opponents Falkirk.

Another feature of the season was the continuing goal scoring exploits of Hugh Gallacher. Arriving from Arbroath at the beginning of the previous season - where he scored 32 goals in 34 games, albeit on the whole against 'reserve' sides - he was to top that performance by scoring 46 goals in 46 games - a goal a game!

Note that Dumbarton had scored 121 goals in all matches during the season, the eighth time that the 'century' had been broken, and the first time in fifty years.

Results

Win
Draw
Loss

All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.

Scottish League

Main article: 1955–56 Scottish Football League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
24 August 1955	Alloa Athletic	A	3-3	Gallacher,H(2);Whalen
10 September 1955	Cowdenbeath	H	3-1	Gallacher,H(2);McCall
21 September 1955	Berwick Rangers	H	3-2	Gallacher,H(2);Glover
24 September 1955	East Stirling	H	5-1	Gallacher,H(2);Brooks;Brown;Heaney	3,000
28 September 1955	Hamilton	A	2-0	Gallacher,H;Brown
15 October 1955	Queen's Park	H	0-2		7,000
29 October 1955	Arbroath	A	1-0	McDonald
5 November 1955	Albion Rovers	H	3-2	Gallacher,H;Whalen;Cairns
12 November 1955	Ayr United	A	1-5	Glover
19 November 1955	Stranraer	H	5-2	Whalen(3);Gallacher,H;Glover	2,600
26 November 1955	Morton	H	2-0	Gallacher,H;OG	5,000
3 December 1955	Third Lanark	A	0-1
10 December 1955	Montrose	H	4-1	McDonald(2);Gallacher,H;OG
17 December 1955	Stenhousemuir	A	3-2	Gallacher,H(3)
24 December 1955	Forfar Athletic	A	5-1	Gallacher,H(3);Whalen;Brooks
31 December 1955	Dundee United	H	2-0	Gallacher,H(2)	5,500
2 January 1956	East Stirling	A	1-3	McDonald
3 January 1956	Hamilton	H	2-1	Gallacher,H(2)	5,000
7 January 1956	St Johnstone	H	0-2
14 January 1956	Cowdenbeath	A	6-2	Gallacher,H(2);McKeown(2);McDonald;Whalen
28 January 1956	Brechin City	A	2-0	McKeown(2)
11 February 1956	Queen's Park	A	0-7		17,240
18 February 1956	Forfar Athletic	H	5-1	McKeown(3);Gallacher,H;Brown
25 February 1956	Berwick Rangers	A	2-2	Whalen;Gallagher
3 March 1956	Arbroath	H	1-1	Gallacher,H
10 March 1956	Albion Rovers	A	1-0	McKeown
17 March 1956	Ayr United	H	3-3	Heaney(2);Gallacher,H	7,000
24 March 1956	Stranraer	A	1-2	Gallacher,H
31 March 1956	Morton	A	2-1	Gallacher,H(2)
2 April 1956	St Johnstone	A	1-2	Bradley	9,000
7 April 1956	Third Lanark	H	2-3	Cornock;McCall	5,000
13 April 1956	Brechin City	H	1-4	Bell
18 April 1956	Montrose	A	4-1	Gallacher,H(2);Bryceland;Glover
21 April 1956	Stenhousemuir	H	2-1	Gallacher,H;Glover
25 April 1956	Dundee United	A	1-1	Gallacher,H	3,000
28 April 1956	Alloa Athletic	H	4-2	Gallacher,H;Whalen;Bryceland;Heaney

Scottish Cup

Main article: 1955–56 Scottish Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
8 October 1955	3	Inverness Caledonian	H	5-3	Gallacher,H(2);Brown(2);Brooks	5,000
22 October 1955	4	Dundee United	A	1-4	Gallacher,H	12,000

Scottish League Cup

Main article: 1955–56 Scottish League Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
13 August 1955	P	Berwick Rangers	H	2-0	Gallacher,H;Whalen	5,000
20 August 1955	P	Montrose	A	2-0	Gallacher,H;Whalen
27 August 1955	P	Stranraer	A	3-3	Gallacher,H(2);Heaney
3 September 1955	P	East Stirling	H	6-1	Whalen(4);Gallacher,H;Glover	6,000
6 September 1955	PO1	Morton	H	2-1	Gallacher,H;Whalen	7,000
8 September 1955	PO2	Morton	A	1-0	Gallacher,H
14 September 1955	QF1	St Mirren	A	1-5	Whalen	15,000
17 September 1955	QF2	St Mirren	H	1-1	Glover	6,000

Stirlingshire Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
21 March 1956	SF	Falkirk	A	5-6	Gallacher,H(3);Whalen;McKeown

Other Matches

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
1 October 1955	Queens Park XI	H	1-2	Trialist
21 January 1956	Carluke Rovers	H	6-1	Brooks(3);McKay;Whalen;McDonald	1,000
6 May 1956	Renfrew Juniors	A	2-1	Gallacher,H(2)	2,500

Appearances

Dumbarton used 28 players for the 46 League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup matches, as detailed below. Hugh Gallacher was best as being the only player to feature in all of these matches.^[1]

Player	Position^[2]	Appearances	Goals
John Adams	FW	1
A Aitken	DF	1
Tommy Bell	FW	1	1
Willie Box	MF	2
Jimmy Bradley	FW	2	1
John Brooks	FW	15	3
Les Brown	FW	26	5
Sam Bryceland	FW	4	2
Benny Cairns	MF	31	1
John Callan	FW	4
Don Cornock	MF	36	1
Tommy Craig	MF	1
Hugh Gallacher	FW	46	46
Joe Gallacher	DF	35
John Gallagher	FW	8	1
John Glover	FW	28	7
Jim Gray	DF	7
Joe Harvey	MF	35
John Heaney	FW	27	5
Tommy Irwin	MF	6
Gerry McCaffrey	FW	2
John McCall	MF	41	2
Jimmy McDonald	FW	16	5
John McKay	DF	43
Billy McKeown	FW	12	8
Des McLean	GK	3
Eddie O'Donnell	GK	11
Jimmy Ritchie	GK	32
Tom Whalen	FW	30	17

Reserve Team

Dumbarton only played one official 'reserve' match in the Second XI Cup, losing in the first round to Partick Thistle.

References

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

External links

Scottish Football Historical Archive

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1955–56 Dumbarton F.C. season

Overview

Results

Scottish League

Scottish Cup

Scottish League Cup

Stirlingshire Cup

Other Matches

Appearances

Reserve Team

See also

References

External links