1944β1945 season | |
---|---|
Stadium | Boghead Park, Dumbarton |
Scottish Southern League | 13th |
Summer Cup | First Round |
League Cup South | Prelims |
Top goalscorer | League: Willie Reid (13) All: Willie Reid (15) |
The 1944β45 season was the sixth Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed in regional football during World War II.
Four seasons of improving performances were not to be continued, with Dumbarton suffering a disastrous start to their fifth season in the Southern League campaign which saw only 3 points earned from the first 11 games. Things were not helped by a high 'turn-over' of playing staff and Dumbarton slumped to 13th out of 16 in the Scottish Southern League with 21 points - 38 behind champions Rangers.
12 August 1944 League | Motherwell | 4β3 [1] [2] | Dumbarton | Fir Park |
Gibson ![]() Kilmarnock ![]() Gillan ![]() Mathie ![]() |
Stead ![]() Brooks ![]() Reid ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
19 August 1944 League | Dumbarton | 4β1 [3] [4] | Partick Thistle | Boghead Park |
Brooks ![]() Reid ![]() Timmins ![]() |
Sharp ![]() |
Attendance: 5,500 |
26 August 1944 League | St Mirren | 4β2 [5] [6] | Dumbarton | Love Street (stadium) |
Linwood ![]() Lindsay ![]() McKenna ![]() |
Brooks ![]() McLean ![]() |
Attendance: 7,000 |
2 September 1944 League | Dumbarton | 0β3 [7] [8] | Hibernian | Boghead Park |
Cheyne ![]() Colvan ![]() Smith ![]() |
Attendance: 3,500 |
9 September 1944 League | Falkirk | 5β1 [9] [10] | Dumbarton | Brockville Park |
Fitzsimmons ![]() Inglis ![]() Bagan ![]() |
McLean ![]() |
Attendance: 4,000 |
16 September 1944 League | Dumbarton | 0β3 [11] [12] | Celtic | Boghead Park |
Gallacher ![]() Delaney ![]() |
Attendance: 7,000 Referee: C R Blae |
23 September 1944 League | Airdrie | 2β1 [13] [14] | Dumbarton | Broomfield Park |
Aitken ![]() Ferguson ![]() |
Brooks ![]() |
Attendance: 3,000 |
30 September 1944 League | Dumbarton | 2β5 [15] [16] | Third Lanark | Boghead Park |
Timmins ![]() |
McIntosh ![]() Dawson ![]() Orr ![]() |
Attendance: 3,000 Referee: W Livingston |
7 October 1944 League | Dumbarton | 2β2 [17] [18] | Queen's Park | Boghead Park |
Mooney ![]() Timmins ![]() |
Hodge ![]() |
Attendance: 2,500 |
14 October 1944 League | Hearts | 4β0 [19] [20] | Dumbarton | Tynecastle Stadium |
Conn ![]() Kelly ![]() Urquhart ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
21 October 1944 League | Dumbarton | 0β4 [21] [22] | Morton | Boghead Park |
McAloon ![]() Kelly ![]() Crum ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
28 October 1944 League | Albion Rovers | 2β4 [23] [24] | Dumbarton | Cliftonhill |
McIlhatton ![]() |
Reid ![]() Hepburn ![]() Brooks ![]() |
Attendance: 1,000 |
11 November 1944 League | Rangers | 5β2 [25] [26] | Dumbarton | Ibrox Park |
Duncanson ![]() Waddell ![]() Symon ![]() Watkins ![]() |
Dolan ![]() Brawley ![]() |
Attendance: 12,000 |
18 November 1944 League | Dumbarton | 3β0 [27] [28] | Clyde | Boghead Park |
Reid ![]() Milne ![]() |
Attendance: 6,000 |
25 November 1944 League | Dumbarton | 2β6 [29] [30] | Motherwell | Boghead Park |
Marshall ![]() |
Watson ![]() McCulloch ![]() Mathie ![]() Ross ![]() |
Attendance: 6,000 Referee: C Blues |
2 December 1944 League | Partick Thistle | 1β2 [31] [32] | Dumbarton | Firhill Park |
Sharp ![]() |
Reid ![]() Brooks ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
9 December 1944 League | Dumbarton | 3β1 [33] [34] | St Mirren | Boghead Park |
Murphy ![]() Reid ![]() Pritchard ![]() |
Linwood ![]() |
Attendance: 4,000 Referee: C R Blues |
23 December 1944 League | Dumbarton | 2β0 [37] [38] | Airdrie | Boghead Park |
Reid ![]() |
Attendance: 2,500 |
30 December 1944 League | Celtic | 2β1 [39] [40] | Dumbarton | Celtic Park |
McLaughlin ![]() |
Marshall ![]() |
Attendance: 9,000 |
1 January 1945 League | Dumbarton | 1β4 [41] [42] | Falkirk | Boghead Park |
Brawley ![]() |
Fizsimmons ![]() Henderson ![]() Bagan ![]() |
2 January 1945 League | Clyde | 7β1 [43] [44] | Dumbarton | Broadwood Stadium |
Johnstone ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Johnstone,L ![]() |
Timmins ![]() |
6 January 1945 League | Third Lanark | 0β2 [45] [46] | Dumbarton | Cathkin Park |
Marshall ![]() McMillan ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
13 January 1945 League | Queen's Park | 2β0 [47] [48] | Dumbarton | Hampden Park |
Harris ![]() |
Attendance: 4,000 |
3 February 1945 League | Dumbarton | 3β2 [49] [50] | Albion Rovers | Boghead Park |
Filshie ![]() Pritchard ![]() |
Hannah ![]() |
Attendance: 2,000 |
10 February 1945 League | Hamilton | 3β3 [51] [52] | Dumbarton | Douglas Park |
Jarvie ![]() Jones ![]() Burns ![]() |
Reid ![]() Murphy ![]() |
Attendance: 1,000 |
17 February 1945 League | Dumbarton | 3β6 [53] [54] | Rangers | Boghead Park |
Milne ![]() Murphy ![]() Gray ![]() |
Gillick ![]() Duncanson ![]() Young ![]() |
Attendance: 4,000 |
7 April 1945 League | Morton | 2β1 [55] [56] | Dumbarton | Cappielow Park |
Henderson ![]() McInnes ![]() |
Reid ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
21 April 1945 League | Dumbarton | 3β2 [57] [58] | Hearts | Boghead Park |
Hepburn ![]() Boyd ![]() Reid ![]() |
Walker ![]() Kelly ![]() |
Attendance: 1,300 |
Dumbarton again failed to escape from their qualifying section in the League Cup South, winning one and drawing two of their qualifying matches.
24 February 1945 Group D | Motherwell | 2β1 [61] | Dumbarton | Fir Park |
Mathie ![]() |
Murphy ![]() |
Attendance: 4,000 |
3 March 1945 Group D | Dumbarton | 0β0 [62] | Hearts | Boghead Park |
Attendance: 4,000 |
10 March 1945 Group D | Dumbarton | 5β1 [63] | St Mirren | Boghead Park |
Hepburn ![]() Murphy ![]() Brawley ![]() Reid ![]() |
Feeham ![]() |
Attendance: 3,000 |
17 March 1945 Group D | Dumbarton | 2β2 [64] | Motherwell | Boghead Park |
Hepburn ![]() Pritchard ![]() |
Kilmarnock ![]() McCulloch ![]() |
Attendance: 7,000 |
24 March 1945 Group D | Hearts | 6β2 [65] | Dumbarton | Tynecastle Stadium |
Kelly ![]() McCrae ![]() Miller ![]() McClure ![]() |
Reid ![]() Brawley ![]() |
Attendance: 15,000 |
31 March 1945 Group D | St Mirren | 3β1 [66] | Dumbarton | Love Street (stadium) |
Linwood ![]() Feehan ![]() |
Filshie ![]() |
Attendance: 3,000 |
Dumbarton suffered another first round defeat in the Summer Cup, this time to Partick Thistle.
26 May 1945 Cup 1(1) | Partick Thistle | 4β4 [67] | Dumbarton | Firhill Park |
Stockdale ![]() Shankley ![]() McGeachie ![]() |
Murphy ![]() Hepburn ![]() Browning ![]() |
Attendance: 7,000 |
2 June 1945 Cup 1(2) | Dumbarton | 1β2
[68] (5β6 agg.) | Partick Thistle | Boghead Park |
Timmins ![]() |
Johnson ![]() |
Attendance: 5,000 |
No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Southern Division | Summer Cup | League Cup | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
GK | ![]() |
Brendan Bell | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
GK | ![]() |
James Dover [69] | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
GK | ![]() |
Stan Gullan | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
GK | ![]() |
Jim Hoey [70] | 16 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
GK | ![]() |
David Watson [71] | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
DF | ![]() |
Andy Cheyne [72] | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
DF | ![]() |
James Hoy [73] | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
DF | ![]() |
Alex Kay [74] | 26 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
DF | ![]() |
John Mulvaney [75] | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
DF | ![]() |
Robert Wallace [76] | 25 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Tom Brawley [77] | 28 | 5 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | |
MF | ![]() |
John Browning [78] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
John Craig [79] | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Bobby Donaldson | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Frank Douglas [80] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Andrew Easton [81] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Hugh Hart [82] | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Cliff Mansley | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Andrew McAlpine [83] | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Gordon McFarlane [84] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Jackie Milne | 22 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
MF | ![]() |
Willie Reid [85] | 33 | 15 | 27 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | |
MF | ![]() |
Jimmy Timmins [86] | 23 | 6 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Robert Torrance [87] | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Andrew Boyd [88] | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
George Brooks [89] | 20 | 7 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
George Campbell | 27 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Dolan [90] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Alexander Filshie [91] | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
FW | ![]() |
John Hepburn [92] | 28 | 6 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |
FW | ![]() |
Donald MacMillan [93] | 8 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Ernest Marshall [94] | 15 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Victor McAloney [95] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Jimmy McGowan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Albert McLean [96] | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Mooney [97] | 7 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Robert Murphy [98] | 26 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | |
FW | ![]() |
Vince Pritchard [99] | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
FW | ![]() |
Angus Stead [100] | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
FW | ![]() |
Trialists | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: [101]
Players in
|
Players out
|
Source: [102]
Dumbarton's Second XI had similar disappointing fortunes during the season to the first team.
In the Scottish Second XI Cup, Dumbarton lost in the first round to Falkirk, and finished 9th (of 11) in the Glasgow & District Reserve League.