1956–57 Dumbarton F.C. season

Dumbarton

1956–1957 season

Manager

Peter McGown

Stadium

Boghead Park, Dumbarton

Scottish League Division 2

9th

Scottish Cup

Seventh Round

Scottish League Cup

Prelims

Top goalscorer

League: Hugh Gallacher (27)
All: Hugh Gallacher (36)

← 1955–56

1957–58 →

Season 1956–57 was the 80th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 50th time, the Scottish Cup for the 62nd time and the Scottish League Cup for the 10th time.

Overview

By coming so close to promotion the previous season, confidence was high to mount a serious challenge on the Division 2 title. However despite breaking the 100 goals scored in a league season for the first time, the 70 against was never going to be 'championship material' and only a 9th place was achieved with 38 points, 26 behind runaway winners Clyde.

In the Scottish Cup, however, two Division 1 clubs were defeated on route to a quarter final against Raith Rovers - and although the tie was lost the 18,001 crowd at Boghead still stands as the record home crowd.

Dumbarton returned to old habits in the League Cup by failing to qualify from their section, although it was their poor home performances which were to count against them this season.

It was however the Stirlingshire Cup which was to bring some cheer, as an aggregate win over Alloa Athletic was to bring the cup home to Dumbarton for the second time.

It should be noted that Boghead had floodlights installed during the season, and a friendly against Celtic was played to celebrate the 'switch on'.

Finally, Dumbarton broke both the goals for and goals against 'centuries' during the season. By scoring 134 goals in all games, this was the ninth time that the 'century - for' had been broken, and by conceding 109, this was the 15th time that the 'century - against' had been broken.

Results

Win
Draw
Loss

All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.

Scottish League

Main article: 1956–57 Scottish Football League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
22 August 1956	Cowdenbeath	A	1-2	Whalen
5 September 1956	Hamilton	H	2-0	Gallacher,H;McKeown
8 September 1956	Stenhousemuir	A	3-1	Brown(2);Whalen
12 September 1956	Hamilton	A	1-1	Rollo	5,000
15 September 1956	East Stirling	H	3-2	Kiernan(2);Hunter
19 September 1956	Cowdenbeath	H	2-3	Kiernan;Hunter
22 September 1956	Stirling Albion	A	1-3	Hunter	5,500
29 September 1956	Berwick Rangers	H	4-0	Brown;Whalen;Kiernan;;Glover	4,300
6 October 1956	Stranraer	A	4-5	Kiernan(3);OG
13 October 1956	Third Lanark	H	0-1		6,000
20 October 1956	Clyde	H	2-3	Gallacher,H;Rollo	8,000
27 October 1956	Arbroath	A	2-3	Gallacher,H(2)
3 November 1956	Forfar Athletic	A	2-0	Gallacher,H;Gallagher	1,600
10 November 1956	Brechin City	H	2-2	Cairns;Whalen
17 November 1956	Montrose	H	7-0	Brown(3);Auld(2);Craig;Heaney
24 November 1956	Morton	A	1-1	Gallacher,H	2,000
8 December 1956	Dundee United	H	3-2	Auld(2);Brown	5,000
15 December 1956	Alloa Athletic	A	3-2	Gallacher,H(2);Brown
22 December 1956	Albion Rovers	H	8-1	Gallacher,H(5);Brown;Heaney;Auld
29 December 1956	Clyde	A	3-5	Gallacher,H;Heaney;Auld	9,000
1 January 1957	Stirling Albion	H	1-3	Whalen
2 January 1957	East Stirling	A	2-3	Cairns;Brown
5 January 1957	Stenhousemuir	H	6-2	Brown(3);Gallacher,H;Gibson;Kiernan
12 January 1957	Berwick Rangers	A	0-1
19 January 1957	Stranraer	H	4-1	Gallacher,H(2);Brown;Cairns
26 January 1957	Third Lanark	A	0-7		6,000
9 February 1957	St Johnstone	H	4-1	Gallacher,H(2);Gallagher;Brown
6 March 1957	Arbroath	H	3-1	Gibson;Gallacher,H;Auld
9 March 1957	Brechin City	A	1-4	Rollo
16 March 1957	Montrose	A	6-1	Rollo;Brown;Gibson;Gallacher,H;Gallagher;Auld
23 March 1957	Morton	H	2-2	Gallacher,H;Brown	5,000
10 April 1957	Forfar Athletic	H	5-1	Cairns;Brown;Gibson;;Gallacher,H;McKeown
13 April 1957	Alloa Athletic	H	5-0	Gibson(2);Gallacher,H(2);Brown
17 April 1957	Dundee United	A	1-3	OG	1,500
20 April 1957	Albion Rovers	A	1-3	McCall
24 April 1957	St Johnstone	A	6-0	Gallacher,H(3);Gibson(2);McKeown

Scottish Cup

Main article: 1956–57 Scottish Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
2 February 1957	5	Queen of the South	A	2-2	Gallacher,H;Brown	7,199
6 February 1957	5R	Queen of the South	H	4-2	McCall;Gibson;Gallacher,H;Whalen	5,700
16 February 1957	6	Motherwell	A	3-1	Gibson(2);Cairns	16,000
2 March 1957	7	Raith Rovers	H	0-4		18,001

Scottish League Cup

Main article: 1956–57 Scottish League Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
11 August 1956	P	Brechin City	H	1-8	Gallacher,H	6,000
15 August 1956	P	Hamilton	A	3-5	Gallacher,H(2);Whalen
18 August 1956	P	Alloa Athletic	H	1-1	Gallacher,H
25 August 1956	P	Brechin City	A	4-3	Gallacher,H(2);Hunter;McCall
29 August 1956	P	Hamilton	H	3-4	Whalen(3)	5,000
1 September 1956	P	Alloa Athletic	A	3-1	Rollo;Gallacher,H;Glover

Stirlingshire Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers
	SF	Falkirk		WO
29 April 1957	F1	Alloa Athletic	H	4-2	Auld;Gallacher,H(2);Whalen
30 April 1957	F2	Alloa Athletic	A	1-1	Gallacher,H

Other Matches

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
23 January 1957	Celtic	H	2-5	Gallacher,H(2)	7,000
1 April 1957	Combined Services XI	H	2-2	Gallacher,H;Brown

Appearances

Dumbarton used 26 players for the 46 League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup matches, as detailed below. Tommy Craig and John McKay were best by featuring in all but one of these matches.^[1]

Player	Position^[2]	Appearances	Goals
Bertie Auld	FW	16	8
Les Brown	FW	39	23
Benny Cairns	MF	40	5
Tommy Craig	MF	43	1
Hugh Gallacher	FW	39	36
Joe Gallacher	DF	15
John Gallagher	FW	16	4
Bobby Gibson	FW	20	11
John Glover	FW	8	2
John Heaney	FW	16	3
Hendry	FW	1
Jim Hunter	MF	22	4
Felix Kiernan	FW	11	8
Jimmy Mann	MF	1
John McCall	MF	38	3
Tommy McCulloch	GK	1
John McKay	DF	43
Billy McKeown	FW	12	3
John McMillan	FW	4
Alex McNeill	GK	9
Jim McQuade	FW	6
Willie Neilson	DF	3
Eddie O'Donnell	GK	36
Alex Rollo	DF	41	5
Alex Stewart	FW	3
Tom Whalen	FW	23	10

Reserve Team

Dumbarton played a 'reserve' team in the Alliance League, which was set up for Division 2 sides. The season was split into two 'series' - with Dumbarton winning the First Series (with 6 wins and 2 draws from 10 games) and finishing as runners up in the Second (with 6 wins and 3 draws from 12 games).

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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1956–57 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