1929–30 Dumbarton F.C. season
The 1929–30 season was the 53rd Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League and the Scottish Cup. In addition Dumbarton competed in the Dumbartonshire Cup.
1929–1930 season | |
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Manager | Donald Colman |
Stadium | Boghead Park, Dumbarton |
Scottish League Division Two | 16th |
Scottish Cup | First Round |
Top goalscorer | League: Johnny Haddow (21) All: Johnny Haddow (21) |
Scottish League
With just 5 wins to show for their efforts in the league campaign up to the new year, it was to prove yet another fruitless season for Dumbarton, their eighth season in a row in the Second Division, and in the end finished 16th out of 20, with 30 points - 27 behind champions Leith Athletic.[1]
10 August 1929 League | Dumbarton | 2-3 [2][3] | Leith Athletic | Boghead Park |
Haddow Speedie |
Nicol |
Attendance: 2,500 Referee: A McInally |
17 August 1929 League | Dunfermline Athletic | 2-3 [4][5] | Dumbarton | East End Park |
Syme Patrick |
Haddow Fairley |
Attendance: 1,500 Referee: N Brown |
24 August 1929 League | Dumbarton | 1-2 [6][7] | Forfar Athletic | Boghead Park |
Haddow |
Newman |
Attendance: 2,000 Referee: D Reilly |
31 August 1929 League | Montrose | 6-0 [8][9] | Dumbarton | Links Park |
Gentles Breslin White |
Attendance: 2,000 Referee: J Leggat |
7 September 1929 League | Dumbarton | 1-2 [10][11] | Alloa Athletic | Boghead Park |
Brannan |
Buchanan Stoddart |
Referee: J Prior |
14 September 1929 League | East Fife | 4-1 [12][13] | Dumbarton | Bayview Park, Methil |
Weir McGachie Nairn |
Brannan |
Attendance: 3,000 Referee: J Rowan |
21 September 1929 League | Dumbarton | 4-2 [14][15] | King's Park | Boghead Park |
Malloy Haddow |
Crickett Toner |
Attendance: 1,500 |
28 September 1929 League | East Stirling | 1-0 [16][17] | Dumbarton | Firs Park |
Renwick |
Referee: G Robertson |
5 October 1929 League | Dumbarton | 2-5 [18][19] | Bo'ness | Boghead Park |
Brannan Malloy |
McLaren Hutcheson Hunter |
Attendance: 2,000 Referee: J Robertson |
12 October 1929 League | Queen of the South | 5-0 [20][21] | Dumbarton | Palmerston Park |
Newman McKenna Hardie Derby |
Referee: W Jamieson |
19 October 1929 League | Dumbarton | 2-3 [22][23] | Raith Rovers | Boghead Park |
Shaw Brannan |
Beath Panther |
Referee: W Murray |
26 October 1929 League | Clydebank | 1-2 [24][25] | Dumbarton | Clydeholm Park |
McNee |
Kirk Malloy |
Referee: A McInally |
2 November 1929 League | Stenhousemuir | 5-0 [26][27] | Dumbarton | Ochilview Park |
Penman Jack Hastings Robertson Scouller |
Referee: J Mackay |
9 November 1929 League | Dumbarton | 4-1 [28][29] | Brechin City | Boghead Park |
Haddow Parlane,W Malloy Speedie |
Cairns |
Referee: J Robertson |
16 November 1929 League | Dumbarton | 4-3 [30][31] | Third Lanark | Boghead Park |
Haddow |
Jack |
Attendance: 2,000 |
23 November 1929 League | Armadale | 2-1 [32][33] | Dumbarton | Volunteer Park, Armadale |
Pettigrew |
Haddow |
Referee: W Jamieson |
30 November 1929 League | Dumbarton | 1-2 [34][35] | Albion Rovers | Boghead Park |
Haddow |
Harkins Cameron |
Referee: G McGreachan |
7 December 1929 League | Dumbarton | 1-4 [36][37] | Arbroath | Boghead Park |
Haddow |
Gallacher Jarvis Mathewson |
Referee: J Robertson |
14 December 1929 League | St Bernard's | 5-0 [38][39] | Dumbarton | Royal Gymnasium Ground |
Forrest Eadie Morrison Imrie |
Attendance: 1,500 Referee: R Seith |
21 December 1929 League | Leith Athletic | 6-2 [40][41] | Dumbarton | Marine Gardens |
Young Johnston Robinson Marshall |
Haddow Shaw |
Attendance: 2,000 Referee: G Robertson |
28 December 1929 League | Dumbarton | 1-3 [42][43] | Dunfermline Athletic | Boghead Park |
Muir |
Syme Gilfillan |
1 January 1930 League | Dumbarton | 1-3 [44][45] | Clydebank | Boghead Park |
Parlane,W |
Walker Newman McCartney |
2 January 1930 League | Raith Rovers | 1-2 [46][47] | Dumbarton | Starks Park |
Beath |
Trialist Hutcheson |
4 January 1930 League | Forfar Athletic | 1-2 [48][49] | Dumbarton | Station Park, Forfar |
Kilgour |
Haddow Trialist |
11 January 1930 League | Dumbarton | 2-2 VOID[50] | Montrose | Boghead Park |
Trialist Shaw |
Breslin Gentles |
Referee: J Robertson |
25 January 1930 League | Alloa Athletic | 2-1 [51][52] | Dumbarton | Recreation Park, Alloa |
Hinds McArthur |
Malloy |
1 February 1930 League | Dumbarton | 6-3 [53][54] | East Fife | Boghead Park |
Swanson Stewart Malloy Parlane,W Haddow |
Herbert Barrett Liddell |
Referee: J Mackay |
8 February 1930 League | King's Park | 1-1 [55][56] | Dumbarton | Forthbank Park |
Dyet,J |
Malloy |
15 February 1930 League | Dumbarton | 5-3 [57][58] | East Stirling | Boghead Park |
Shaw Haddow Parlane,W |
Renwick Saunders |
Referee: J McCutcheon |
22 February 1930 League | Bo'ness | 3-1 [59][60] | Dumbarton | Newtown Park, Bo'ness |
Fleming Black |
Haddow |
Attendance: 1,000 Referee: M Brown |
1 March 1930 League | Dumbarton | 4-0 [61][62] | East Stirling | Boghead Park |
Parlane,W Swanson |
Referee: H McLachlan |
8 March 1930 League | Dumbarton | 5-1 [63][64] | Stenhousemuir | Boghead Park |
Lennie Malloy Shaw Parlane,W Haddow |
Docherty |
Attendance: 1,500 Referee: J Burdon |
15 March 1930 League | Brechin City | 1-0 [65][66] | Dumbarton | Glebe Park, Brechin |
Gunn |
Referee: J Leggat |
22 March 1930 League | Third Lanark | 2-2 [67][68] | Dumbarton | Cathkin Park |
Clark,B McLelland |
Swanson Malloy |
29 March 1930 League | Dumbarton | 6-0 [69][70] | Armadale | Boghead Park |
Haddow Swanson Parlane,W Swanson Stewart |
Referee: J Rowan |
5 April 1930 League | Albion Rovers | 2-0 [71][72] | Dumbarton | Cliftonhill |
Hart Harkins |
Referee: J Rowan |
7 April 1930 League | Dumbarton | 3-1 [73][74] | Montrose | Boghead Park |
Malloy Haddow |
Breslin |
Attendance: 1,100 Referee: J Robertson |
12 April 1930 League | Arbroath | 4-3 [75][76] | Dumbarton | Gayfield Park |
Mathewson Williamson Jarvis Gallacher |
Lennie Haddow |
Attendance: 1,000 Referee: N Brown |
19 April 1930 League | Dumbarton | 3-0 [77][78] | St Bernard's | Boghead Park |
Haddow Malloy Lennie |
Attendance: 1,100 Referee: A McInally |
Scottish Cup
Dumbarton were knocked out in the first round by Cowdenbeath.
18 January 1930 Cup R1 | Dumbarton | 1–4[79][80] | Cowdenbeath | Boghead Park |
Malloy |
Black Lindsay |
Attendance: 3,676 Referee: H Morrison |
Dumbartonshire Cup
For the first time since 1923, Dumbarton won the Dumbartonshire Cup, beating Clydebank in the final.
29 April 1930 Final | Dumbarton | 6-2 | Clydebank | Boghead Park |
Malloy Parlane,J Parlane.W |
Attendance: 2,000 |
Friendly
15 April 1930 Friendly | Dumbarton | 5–1 | Dumbartonshire Juveniles XI | Boghead Park |
Player statistics
No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Second Division | Scottish Cup | |||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
GK | Alex Fraser[81] | 24 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
GK | Archibald McNish[82] | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
GK | John Thomson[83] | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
DF | Jim Kelso | 38 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
DF | William Livingstone[84] | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
DF | Daniel Muir[85] | 36 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
MF | David Beattie | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | William Hyslop[86] | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | Stewart Lennie[87] | 38 | 3 | 37 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
MF | Alex McConnachie[88] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | Johnny Parlane[89] | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | James Miller[90] | 34 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
MF | James Stewart[91] | 27 | 2 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
FW | James Brannan[92] | 16 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Duffy[93] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | John Fairlie[94] | 8 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Johnny Haddow | 35 | 21 | 34 | 21 | 1 | 0 | ||
FW | Angus Kerr[95] | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | William Kirk[96] | 18 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Archibald McLardie | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | William Molloy | 36 | 18 | 35 | 17 | 1 | 1 | ||
FW | Willie Parlane | 18 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 0 | ||
FW | Norman Shaw[97] | 27 | 5 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 0 | ||
FW | Smith[98] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Robert Speedie[99] | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Benjamin Swanson[100] | 15 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | ||
FW | Trialists | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source:[101]
Transfers
Players in
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Players out
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In addition John Bradford, John Jackson and Alex McIssac all played their last games in Dumbarton 'colours'.
Source:[102]
References
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- Match abandoned after 52 minutes due to weather conditions.
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- "William Livingstone - Player Statistics". The Sons Archive. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- The league match against Bo'ness on 22 February marked Danny Muir's 100th appearance for Dumbarton in all national competitions.
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- "Johnny Parlane - Player Statistics". The Sons Archive. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
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