1939–40 Dumbarton F.C. season
Due to the outbreak of WW2, there was no 'official' senior football competition in Scotland, with the Scottish Football League and the Scottish Cup both suspended for the duration. Therefore the 1939–40 season was the first Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed in the 'emergency' competitions which were arranged by the clubs themselves.
1939–1940 season | |
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Manager | Jimmy Smith |
Stadium | Boghead Park, Dumbarton |
Scottish Western Division | 16th |
War Emergency Cup | Second Round |
Top goalscorer | League: Alex Stewart (7) All: Alex Stewart(7) |
Scottish Second Division
Four games into the season, Britain was at war with Nazi Germany and all official Scottish football competition was suspended for its duration.
12 August 1939 League | Leith Athletic | 1-2 [1] VOID | Dumbarton | Old Meadowbank |
O'Rawe |
Nichol Getty |
Referee: J Rennie |
19 August 1939 League | Dumbarton | 3-3 VOID | East Fife | Boghead Park |
Cowan McBride Nichol |
McKerrel Adams Wilkie |
Attendance: 5,500 Referee: J Mackay |
26 August 1939 League | Dundee | 3-1 [2] VOID | Dumbarton | Dens Park |
Warnock Coats Adam |
McBride |
Referee: J Smillie |
2 September 1939 League | Dumbarton | 3-2[3] VOID | Edinburgh City | Boghead Park |
Cowan |
Brown |
Attendance: 3,000 Referee: W Hendry |
Scottish Western Division
In October 1939, in the absence of official competition, the clubs themselves wanted competitive football to continue in some form and arranged for two regional leagues of 16 teams each to be played, with Dumbarton playing in the Western Division – along with the likes of Celtic, Rangers etc. – teams they had not played since being relegated in 1922. Most of the First Division players were already contracted to play for their league opponents and it was no surprise that in this first season of the 'wartime' league, Dumbarton finished bottom (16th out of 16) with 18 points – 30 behind champions Rangers.
21 October 1939 League | Dumbarton | 1-3[4][5] | Queen's Park | Boghead Park |
Cowan |
Kyle |
Attendance: 4,000 Referee: R Carruthers |
28 October 1939 League | Kilmarnock | 5-0[6][7] | Dumbarton | Rugby Park |
Collins Thomson |
Attendance: 3,000 |
4 November 1939 League | Dumbarton | 4-1[8][9] | Albion Rovers | Boghead Park |
Browning Speedie Murray Mills |
Sharp |
Attendance: 5,000 Referee: J Mackay |
11 November 1939 League | Clyde | 3-3[10][11] | Dumbarton | Rugby Park |
Wallace Mills |
Mills Murray |
Attendance: 3,000 |
18 November 1939 League | Dumbarton | 2-1[12][13] | Hamilton | Boghead Park |
McCulloch Harrison |
Lang |
Attendance: 6,000 Referee: R Scott |
25 November 1939 League | Rangers | 2-1[14][15] | Dumbarton | Ibrox Park |
Thornton Venters |
Murray |
Attendance: 7,000 Referee: W Webb |
2 December 1939 League | Airdrie | 3-2[16][17] | Dumbarton | Broomfield Park |
Mooney |
Dunn Mills |
Referee: R Scott |
9 December 1939 League | Dumbarton | 2-1[18][19] | Ayr United | Boghead Park |
Mills Dunn |
Clark |
Attendance: 1,500 Referee: J Thomson |
16 December 1939 League | Motherwell | 5-1[20][21] | Dumbarton | Fir Park |
Ogilvie Wood Wales |
Mathers |
Attendance: 2,500 Referee: J Mackay |
23 December 1939 League | Dumbarton | 1-5[22][23] | Celtic | Boghead Park |
Mathers |
Divers Gould McDonald |
Attendance: 7.000 |
30 December 1939 League | Partick Thistle | 0-4[24][25] | Dumbarton | Firhill Park |
Collins Nichol Dunn |
Attendance: 4,000 Referee: R Carruthers |
2 January 1940 League | Queen of the South | 3-1[28][29] | Dumbarton | Palmerston Park |
Lang Fitzsimmons Connor |
Milne |
6 January 1940 League | Dumbarton | 3-2[30][31] | St Mirren | Boghead Park |
Milne Speedie Mathers |
Brady |
Attendance: 3,500 |
10 February 1940 League | Dumbarton | 1-2[32][33] | Clyde | Boghead Park |
Browning |
McLaren Agnew |
Attendance: 3,000 Referee: W Webb |
17 February 1940 League | Hamilton | 4-2[34][35] | Dumbarton | Douglas Park |
Wilson McAloon McIntyre McKerracher |
Collins Milne |
16 March 1940 League | Dumbarton | 0-1[36][37] | Motherwell | Boghead Park |
Ogilvie |
Attendance: 2,000 Referee: R Carruthers |
27 March 1940 League | Third Lanark | 3-2[40][41] | Dumbarton | Cathkin Park |
Jones Stephenson Watters |
Lang Speedie |
30 March 1940 League | Dumbarton | 0-0[42][43] | Partick Thistle | Boghead Park |
Attendance: 2,000 |
2 April 1940 League | Queen's Park | 4-1[44][45] | Dumbarton | Hampden Park |
Aitken Wright |
McLean |
Attendance: 4,000 Referee: H Watson |
10 April 1940 League | Dumbarton | 2-2[48][49] | Kilmarnock | Boghead Park |
Mathers Dunn |
Newman Gallacher |
13 April 1940 League | Dumbarton | 1-3[50][51] | Queen of the South | Boghead Park |
Stewart,A |
Connor Dawson |
Attendance: 2,000 |
17 April 1940 League | Albion Rovers | 3-1[52][53] | Dumbarton | Cliftonhill |
Dempsey Burke |
Stewart,A |
Referee: R Benzie |
20 April 1940 League | St Mirren | 1-2[54][55] | Dumbarton | Love Street (stadium) |
Deakin |
Shields Casey |
Referee: H Watson |
24 April 1940 League | Dumbarton | 2-3[56][57] | Rangers | Boghead Park |
Stewart,A |
McPherson McPhail |
Attendance: 2,500 |
27 April 1940 League | Dumbarton | 3-2[58][59] | Third Lanark | Boghead Park |
Shields Stewart,A |
Jones |
Attendance: 2,000 |
11 May 1940 League | Ayr United | 4-4[62][63] | Dumbarton | Somerset Park |
Roger Clark |
Shields Stewart,A |
Attendance: 7,000 |
Scottish War Emergency Cup
In place of the Scottish Cup, a War Emergency Cup was established, to be played for by all the teams competing in the regional leagues. Dumbarton reached the second round before losing to Airdrie.
24 February 1940 Cup R1(1) | Dumbarton | 4–3[64] | Arbroath | Boghead Park |
Dunn Milne Lang |
Miller Mudie |
Attendance: 4,500 Referee: C Faultless |
9 March 1940 Cup R2 | Dumbarton | 0–2[66] | Airdrie | Boghead Park |
Reid Flavell |
Attendance: 5,500 |
Dumbartonshire Cup
While the Dumbartonshire Cup competition had been discontinued some years earlier, during the weeks following the suspension of official competition and the start of the regional leagues, Dumbarton played Vale of Leven (a junior football side) for custody of the trophy, and the senior team duly won the day.
30 September 1939 Final | Dumbarton | 4-2 | Vale of Leven | Boghead Park |
McBride Nichol |
Stirlingshire Cup
Following the demise of the Dumbartonshire Association, Dumbarton had been accepted as members of the Stirlingshire Association, and took part for the first time in the Stirlingshire Cup. Dumbarton were knocked out at the semi final stage by Falkirk, although the competition was never completed.
16 August 1939 First Round | Dumbarton | 9-1 | Falkirk Amateurs | Boghead Park |
Cowan Nichol Getty Nesbit |
Attendance: 2,000 |
7 October 1939 Semi Final | Falkirk | 3-2 | Dumbarton | Brockville Park |
Dawson McPhee Stewart |
Nichol mcLean |
Attendance: 4,000 Referee: W McCulloch |
Friendly
14 October 1935 Friendly | Dumbarton | 4–3 | Rangers 'A' | Boghead Park |
Nichol Lang Speedie |
Attendance: 3,000 |
Player statistics
Players registrations were effectively cancelled and wages fixed at £2 per week which meant that players were free to sign for clubs local to their war work as 'guest players'.
No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Western Division | Emergency Cup | |||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||
GK | John Hill[67] | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
GK | William Morrison[68] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
GK | Duncan Yuill[69] | 26 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
DF | James Brown[70] | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
DF | John Casey | 19 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
DF | Johnny Soutar[71] | 33 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
DF | Willie Steel | 19 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
DF | Kenneth Stewart[72] | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | John Browning | 28 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
MF | Robert Fraser[73] | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | John Mathers[74] | 26 | 4 | 24 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||
MF | David McLean[75] | 18 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||
MF | Stephen Murray | 9 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | Fulton Wilson[76] | 15 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
FW | Bowden | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | David Collins | 24 | 3 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 0 | ||
FW | David Cowan | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Willie Dunn | 18 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | ||
FW | John Getty | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | John Lang | 14 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
FW | John McBride[77] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Willie Mills | 7 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Jackie Milne | 15 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||
FW | William Nichol[78] | 27 | 2 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 0 | ||
FW | James Shields[79] | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Smith[80] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Bobby Speedie[81] | 19 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | ||
FW | Alex Stewart[82] | 11 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Source:[83]
Transfers
Players in
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Players out
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In addition Walter Bulloch, William Cameron, John Craig, Andrew Cumming, Alistair MacKillop, James McAllister, Patrick McArdle, William Monaghan, John Smith and John Yuill all played their last games in Dumbarton 'colours'.
Source:[84]
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