1943β1944 season | |
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Stadium | Boghead Park, Dumbarton |
Scottish Southern League | 5th |
Summer Cup | First Round |
League Cup South | Prelims |
Top goalscorer | League: George Brooks (20) All: George Brooks (24) |
Highest home attendance | 8,000 |
Lowest home attendance | 3,000 |
Average home league attendance | 4,770 |
The 1943β44 season was the fifth Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed in regional football during World War II.
Dumbarton had their best performance to date in their fourth season in the Scottish Southern League. Indeed, for two weeks in October 1943 Dumbarton topped the league. However with only two wins recorded after the New Year it was a 5th place finish out of 16 that was achieved with 32 points - 18 behind champions Rangers. Nevertheless the league results included a first ever league win over Celtic at Celtic Park.
14 August 1943 League | Dumbarton | 3β1 [1] [2] | Airdrie | Boghead Park |
Stead ![]() Reid ![]() Milne ![]() |
Aitken ![]() |
Attendance: 4,000 |
21 August 1943 League | Third Lanark | 2β3 [3] [4] | Dumbarton | Cathkin Park |
Fraser ![]() Jones ![]() |
Hepburn ![]() Brooks ![]() |
Attendance: 4,000 |
28 August 1943 League | Dumbarton | 2β1 [5] [6] | St Mirren | Boghead Park |
Hepburn ![]() Brooks ![]() |
Linwood ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
4 September 1943 League | Celtic | 1β4 [7] [8] | Dumbarton | Celtic Park |
Gallacher ![]() |
Lipton ![]() Hepburn ![]() Reid ![]() |
Attendance: 9,000 Referee: C R Blues |
11 September 1943 League | Dumbarton | 2β3 [9] [10] | Falkirk | Boghead Park |
Brooks ![]() Milne ![]() |
Ogilvie ![]() Fitzsimmons ![]() Inglis ![]() |
Attendance: 5,500 |
18 September 1943 League | Hibernian | 4β3 [11] [12] | Dumbarton | Easter Road Stadium |
Smith ![]() Caskie ![]() |
Milne ![]() Brooks ![]() Stead ![]() |
Attendance: 12,000 |
25 September 1943 League | Dumbarton | 4β2 [13] [14] | Motherwell | Boghead Park |
Brooks ![]() Milne ![]() |
Gillan ![]() Gibson ![]() |
Attendance: 4,000 |
2 October 1943 League | Partick Thistle | 2β6 [15] [16] | Dumbarton | Firhill Park |
Leitch ![]() |
Brooks ![]() Brawley ![]() Stead ![]() |
Attendance: 10,000 Referee: W Webb |
9 October 1943 League | Dumbarton | 2β1 [17] [18] | Queen's Park | Boghead Park |
Milne ![]() Torrance ![]() |
Aitkenhead ![]() |
Attendance: 3,000 |
16 October 1943 League | Dumbarton | 3β2 [19] [20] | Hamilton | Boghead Park |
Torrance ![]() Brooks ![]() Stead ![]() |
Hood ![]() Robinson ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
23 October 1943 League | Albion Rovers | 0β1 [21] [22] | Dumbarton | Cliftonhill |
Brooks ![]() |
Attendance: 6,000 |
30 October 1943 League | Dumbarton | 1β4 [23] [24] | Morton | Boghead Park |
Brooks ![]() |
Maxwell ![]() White ![]() Campbell ![]() |
Attendance: 6,000 Referee: J R Boyd |
6 November 1943 League | Hearts | 3β0 [25] [26] | Dumbarton | Tynecastle Stadium |
Miller ![]() Gillies ![]() Kelly ![]() |
Attendance: 12,000 |
20 November 1943 League | Rangers | 2β0 [29] [30] | Dumbarton | Ibrox Park |
Duncanson ![]() |
Attendance: 20,000 |
27 November 1943 League | Airdrie | 1β3 [31] [32] | Dumbarton | Broomfield Park |
O'Sullivan ![]() |
Milne ![]() Reid ![]() |
Attendance: 3,000 |
3 December 1943 League | Dumbarton | 2β3 [33] [34] | Third Lanark | Boghead Park |
Brooks ![]() |
Henderson ![]() McLean ![]() |
Attendance: 4,000 |
11 December 1943 League | St Mirren | 5β2 [35] [36] | Dumbarton | Love Street (stadium) |
Stenhouse ![]() Junior ![]() Kelly ![]() |
Trialist ![]() Lipton ![]() |
Attendance: 3,000 |
18 December 1943 League | Dumbarton | 1β1 [37] [38] | Celtic | Boghead Park |
Douglas ![]() |
McDonald ![]() |
Attendance: 7,000 |
25 December 1943 League | Dumbarton | 1β1 [39] [40] | Hibernian | Boghead Park |
Brooks ![]() |
Cuthberson ![]() |
Attendance: 3,500 |
1 January 1944 League | Falkirk | 4β0 [41] [42] | Dumbarton | Brockville Park |
Fitzsimmons ![]() Napier ![]() Brady ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
8 January 1944 League | Motherwell | 2β0 [45] [46] | Dumbarton | Fir Park |
Main ![]() Gillan ![]() |
Attendance: 3,000 |
15 January 1944 League | Dumbarton | 2β2 [47] [48] | Partick Thistle | Boghead Park |
Milne,Jk ![]() Milne,Jn ![]() |
Newall ![]() Glover ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
22 January 1944 League | Queen's Park | 0β0 [49] [50] | Dumbarton | Hampden Park |
Attendance: 5,000 |
5 February 1944 League | Dumbarton | 2β2 [53] [54] | Albion Rovers | Boghead Park |
Pritchard ![]() |
Mooney ![]() McDonald ![]() |
Attendance: 3,000 |
12 February 1944 League | Morton | 3β1 [55] [56] | Dumbarton | Cappielow Park |
Henderson ![]() McKenzie ![]() Kelly ![]() |
Milne ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
19 February 1944 League | Dumbarton | 2β1 [57] [58] | Hearts | Boghead Park |
Blyth ![]() Craig ![]() |
Blyth ![]() |
Attendance: 3,500 |
26 February 1944 League | Clyde | 4β1 [59] [60] | Dumbarton | Shawfield Stadium |
Wallace ![]() Mills ![]() Johnstone ![]() |
Milne ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
Despite an unbeaten away record, Dumbarton failed to qualify from their section in the League Cup South.
4 March 1944 Group D | Dumbarton | 1β4 [61] | Queen's Park | Boghead Park |
Milne ![]() |
Jordan ![]() Gallacher ![]() Aitkenhead ![]() Harris ![]() |
Attendance: 4,000 |
11 March 1944 Group D | Clyde | 0β1 [62] | Dumbarton | Shawfield Stadium |
Pritchard ![]() |
Attendance: 10,000 |
18 March 1944 Group D | St Mirren | 2β2 [63] | Dumbarton | Love Street (stadium) |
Linwood ![]() Kennedy ![]() |
Brooks ![]() |
Attendance: 8,000 |
25 March 1944 Group D | Queen's Park | 0β2 [64] | Dumbarton | Hampden Park |
Reid ![]() Brooks ![]() |
Attendance: 10,000 |
1 April 1944 Group D | Dumbarton | 1β3 [65] | Clyde | Boghead Park |
Hickie ![]() |
Wallace ![]() Agnew ![]() |
Attendance: 6,000 |
8 April 1944 Group D | Dumbarton | 2β1 [66] | St Mirren | Boghead Park |
Pritchard ![]() Brooks ![]() |
Linwood ![]() |
Attendance: 3,500 |
Dumbarton suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of Clyde in the first round of the Summer Cup.
3 June 1944 Cup 1(1) | Dumbarton | 2β4 [67] | Clyde | Boghead Park |
Pritchard ![]() Brawley ![]() |
Johnstone ![]() Gillies ![]() |
Attendance: 3,000 Referee: W Webb |
10 June 1944 Cup 1(2) | Clyde | 6β0
[68] (10β2 agg.) | Dumbarton | Shawfield Stadium |
Gillies ![]() Johnstone ![]() |
Attendance: 6,000 |
No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Southern Division | Summer Cup | League Cup | ||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
GK | ![]() |
Brendan Bell | 18 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
GK | ![]() |
David Watson [69] | 20 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
DF | ![]() |
Andy Cheyne [70] | 30 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
DF | ![]() |
Alex Kay [71] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
DF | ![]() |
John Morgan [72] | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
DF | ![]() |
James Mulvaney [73] | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
DF | ![]() |
Robert Wallace [74] | 22 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Tom Brawley [75] | 26 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
John Craig [76] | 30 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Bobby Donaldson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Andrew McAlpine [77] | 38 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Douglas McBain | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Jackie Milne | 37 | 10 | 29 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |
MF | ![]() |
Willie Reid [78] | 28 | 5 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |
FW | ![]() |
James Anderson [79] | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Andrew Boyd [80] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
George Brooks [81] | 38 | 24 | 30 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | |
FW | ![]() |
Frank Douglas [82] | 15 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
John Hepburn [83] | 28 | 3 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Thomas Lipton [84] | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Ian McColl [85] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Murdoch McCormack [86] | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
John Milne [87] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Vince Pritchard [88] | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |
FW | ![]() |
Angus Stead [89] | 24 | 6 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Robert Torrance [90] | 9 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Trialists | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: [91]
Players in
|
Players out
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In addition George Henderson and John Honeyman both played their last games in Dumbarton 'colours'.
Source: [92]
Dumbarton continued to run a Second XI during the season.
In the Scottish Second XI Cup, Dumbarton lost in the second round to St Mirren, and finished as runners-up in the Glasgow & District Reserve League (First Series).