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1954–55 Dumbarton F.C. season

Dumbarton
1954–1955 season
ManagerPeter McGown
StadiumBoghead Park, Dumbarton
Scottish League C Division (South West)4th
Scottish CupThird Round
Scottish Supplementary League CupPrelims
Top goalscorerLeague: Hughie Gallacher (27)
All: Hughie Gallacher (32)

The 1954–55 season was the 71st Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup and the Supplementary League Cup. In addition Dumbarton competed in the Stirlingshire Cup.

Scottish League Division C (South-West)

Main article: 1954–55 in Scottish football

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, and topping the league in early March, in the end only 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.

6 November 1954 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 3-0 Motherwell 'A' Boghead Park
Johnston 18' (pen.)
Gallacher,H
Heaney 		Referee: J Aitken
13 November 1954 Division C (SW) Airdrie 'A' 3-3 Dumbarton Broomfield Park


 Gallacher,H 14' Referee: R Rodger
20 November 1954 Division C (SW) Ayr United 'A' 1-5 Dumbarton Somerset Park
Gallacher,H
Johnston Heaney
Auld 		Referee: J Bonamy
27 November 1954 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 4-1 Clyde 'A' Boghead Park
Gallacher,H 40'
Johnston
Anderson
Auld 		Referee: H Baird
4 December 1954 Division C (SW) St Mirren 'A' 2-2 Dumbarton Love Street (stadium)
Hendry 12'
McDonald 33'		 Heaney 15'
Gallacher,H 30'		 Referee: W Syme
18 December 1954 Division C (SW) Motherwell 'A' 1-2 Dumbarton Fir Park
McSeveney Gallacher,H 40' Referee: A Dick
25 December 1954 Division C (SW) Queen's Park Strollers 4-3 Dumbarton Hampden Park
McKinven 15'
Martin 19'
Callan 38'
 Gallacher,H
Heaney
(OG)		 Referee: A Crossman
1 January 1955 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 1-1 Rangers 'A' Boghead Park
Gallacher,H
3 January 1955 Division C (SW) Stranraer 3-3 Dumbarton Stair Park


 Heaney
Anderson
8 January 1955 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 1-3 Stranraer Boghead Park
Gallacher,H 7' Robertson 15'
McIntyre
McCutcheon 		Referee: R Baird
29 January 1955 Division C (SW) Queen of the South 'A' 1-3 Dumbarton Palmerston Park
Liddell 4', 24', 28' Referee: D McTaggart
5 February 1955 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 2-0 Third Lanark 'A' Boghead Park
Johnston
Heaney
12 February 1955 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 2-1 Kilmarnock 'A' Boghead Park
McKay
Heaney 		Murray Referee: J Aitken
19 February 1955 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 2-1 Queen's Park Strollers Boghead Park
McKay
Heaney 		Church Referee: R Baird
5 March 1955 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 7-1 Airdrie 'A' Boghead Park
Gallacher,H
Liddell
Johnston
12 March 1955 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 1-1 Ayr United 'A' Boghead Park
Gallacher,H
19 March 1955 Division C (SW) Clyde 'A' 4-1 Dumbarton Shawfield Stadium
McHarg 42'


 Gallacher,H 1' Referee: W Syme
26 March 1955 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 1-1 St Mirren 'A' Boghead Park
Gallacher,H Referee: P Rodgers
9 April 1955 Division C (SW) Partick Thistle 'A' 1-4 Dumbarton Firhill Stadium
Gallacher,H 14' 40'
McDonald 		Referee: A Dick
16 April 1955 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 4-1 Queen of the South 'A' Boghead Park
Vine 10'
Gallacher,H 21'
Auld 		Robertson Referee: C Turnbull
18 April 1955 Division C (SW) Third Lanark 'A' 1-2 Dumbarton Cathkin Park
Mitchell Gallacher,H 2'
23 April 1955 Division C (SW) Kilmarnock 'A' 4-0 Dumbarton Rugby Park
Newman 23'
Toner 36'
27 April 1955 Division C (SW) Rangers 'A' 3-0 Dumbarton Ibrox Park
Paton
Pryde
Woods
30 April 1955 Division C (SW) Dumbarton 2-8 Partick Thistle 'A' Boghead Park







 Gallacher,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

Main article: 1954–55 Scottish Cup

There was an early exit in the Cup with Dumbarton losing to Montrose in the third round.

9 October 1954 Round 3 Montrose 3–1[1][2] Dumbarton Links Park


 Anderson Attendance: 2,000

Scottish Supplementary League Cup

No progress was made from the sectional games in the Supplementary League Cup, finishing 5th of 7.

14 August 1954 Section Third Lanark 'A' 1-0 Dumbarton Cathkin Park
Referee: J Ferguson
18 August 1954 Section Dumbarton 2-3 Rangers 'A' Boghead Park
Clements
Hepburn 		Carron (pen.)
McKenzie,G
Paton
21 August 1954 Section St Mirren 'A' 3-0 Dumbarton Love Street (stadium)
Cross 33'
Liddell 		Referee: W Linton
25 August 1954 Section Dumbarton 2-1 Queen's Park Strollers Boghead Park
Duff
28 August 1954 Section Dumbarton 1-0 Third Lanark 'A' Boghead Park
Gallacher,H 57' Referee: T Edwards
1 September 1954 Section Clyde 'A' 2-2 Dumbarton Shawfield Stadium
Newman McCall
Gallacher,H
8 September 1954 Section Queen's Park Strollers 0-1 Dumbarton Hampden Park
McCall
13 September 1954 Section Dumbarton 2-4 St Mirren 'A' Boghead Park
McCall
Walsh


18 September 1954 Section Dumbarton 0-2 Clyde 'A' Boghead Park
McKenna 20'
Currie 26'		 Referee: H Rodger
2 October 1954 Section Dumbarton 2-0 Partick Thistle 'A' Boghead Park
Gallacher,H Referee: W Syme
25 April 1955 Section Partick Thistle 'A' 1-1 Dumbarton Firhill Stadium
McInnes Gallacher,H
2 May 1955 Section Rangers 'A' 2-0 Dumbarton Ibrox Park
Carmichael
Simpson,A

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

There was also a first round defeat in the county cup, to East Stirling.

23 October 1954 First Round Dumbarton 2-4 East Stirling Boghead Park
Gallacher,H
Vine

Friendlies

5 August 1954 Friendly Third Lanark 'A' 2-1 Dumbarton Cathkin Park
11 September 1954 Friendly Dundee 'A' 0-1 Dumbarton Dens Park
Gallacher,H Attendance: 3,000
25 September 1954 Friendly Dumbarton 4-2 Kilmarnock 'A' Boghead Park
Gallacher,H


16 October 1954 Friendly Dumbarton 0-3 Hibernian 'A' Boghead Park
11 December 1954 Friendly Dumbarton 2-3 Hearts 'A' Boghead Park
Gallacher,H
Welsh

Attendance: 2,000
26 February 1955 Friendly Dumbarton 0-8 Motherwell 'A' Boghead Park

Player statistics

No. Pos Nat Player Total C Division (SW) Scottish Cup Supplementary League Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
GK Scotland SCO Lawrence Leslie 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
GK Scotland SCO Wallace Murdoch[3] 21 0 10 0 1 0 10 0
GK Scotland SCO Jimmy Ritchie 15 0 13 0 0 0 2 0
DF Scotland SCO Jim Gray 33 0 23 0 0 0 10 0
DF Scotland SCO John McKay 37 0 24 0 1 0 12 0
MF Scotland SCO Joe Cadden 7 0 0 0 1 0 6 0
MF Scotland SCO Don Cornock 30 0 22 0 0 0 8 0
MF Scotland SCO Tommy Craig 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
MF Scotland SCO Jim Davie 5 0 0 0 1 0 4 0
MF Scotland SCO Joe Gallacher[4] 25 0 19 0 1 0 5 0
MF Scotland SCO Gilhooly 8 0 2 0 0 0 6 0
MF Scotland SCO Tommy Irwin 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
MF Scotland SCO John McCall 32 3 21 0 1 0 10 3
MF Scotland SCO Moran 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
FW Scotland SCO Anderson[5] 17 3 13 2 1 1 3 0
FW Scotland SCO Bertie Auld 19 3 16 3 1 0 2 0
FW Scotland SCO Les Brown 5 0 4 0 0 0 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Clements 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
FW Scotland SCO Docherty 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
FW Scotland SCO Duff 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2
FW Scotland SCO Jackie Fearn 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Jimmy Finnie[6] 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Fraser 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Hugh Gallacher 34 32 24 27 1 0 9 5
FW Scotland SCO Willie Gibson[7] 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
FW Scotland SCO John Heaney 26 9 24 9 0 0 2 0
FW Scotland SCO Tony Hepburn 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 1
FW Scotland SCO Joe Johnston 22 5 21 5 0 0 1 0
FW Scotland SCO George Liddell 10 6 9 6 0 0 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Jim Maguire 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
FW Scotland SCO Alex Mayberry 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Gerry McCaffrey[8] 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
FW Scotland SCO McCloy 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
FW Scotland SCO Jimmy McDonald 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0
FW Scotland SCO Sandford 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
FW Scotland SCO Jimmy Timmins[9] 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Jim Vine 11 1 4 1 0 0 7 0
FW Scotland SCO Walsh[10] 15 1 5 0 1 0 9 1

Source:[11]

Transfers

Amongst those players joining and leaving the club were the following:

Source:[12]

Reserve Team

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

References

  1. ^ "Montrose 3 - 1 Dumbarton, Scottish Cup (09/10/1954)". Fitbastats.com. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Montrose 3 - 1 Dumbarton, Saturday, October 9th 1954". The Sons Archive. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Wallace Murdoch - Player Statistics". The Sons Archive. Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Joe Gallacher - Player Statistics". The Sons Archive. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Anderson - Player Statistics". The Sons Archive. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Jimmy Finnie - Player Statistics". The Sons Archive. Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Willie Gibson - Player Statistics". The Sons Archive. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Gerry McCaffrey - Player Statistics". The Sons Archive. Archived from the original on 12 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Jimmy Timmins - Player Statistics". The Sons Archive. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  10. ^ "Walsh - Player Statistics". The Sons Archive. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  11. ^ McAllister, Jim (2002). The Sons of the Rock - The Official History of Dumbarton Football Club. Dumbarton: J&J Robertson Printers.
  12. ^ Litster, John. Record of Post-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.
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