1944–45 Dumbarton F.C. season
The 1944–45 season was the sixth Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed in regional football during World War II.
1944–1945 season | |
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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) |
Scottish Southern League
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 | 4–3[1][2] | Dumbarton | Fir Park |
Gibson Kilmarnock Gillan Mathie |
Stead Brooks Reid |
Attendance: 5,000 |
19 August 1944 League | Dumbarton | 4–1[3][4] | Partick Thistle | Boghead Park |
Brooks Reid Timmins |
Sharp |
Attendance: 5,500 |
26 August 1944 League | St Mirren | 4–2[5][6] | Dumbarton | Love Street (stadium) |
Linwood Lindsay McKenna |
Brooks McLean |
Attendance: 7,000 |
2 September 1944 League | Dumbarton | 0–3[7][8] | Hibernian | Boghead Park |
Cheyne Colvan Smith |
Attendance: 3,500 |
9 September 1944 League | Falkirk | 5–1[9][10] | Dumbarton | Brockville Park |
Fitzsimmons Inglis Bagan |
McLean |
Attendance: 4,000 |
16 September 1944 League | Dumbarton | 0–3[11][12] | Celtic | Boghead Park |
Gallacher Delaney |
Attendance: 7,000 Referee: C R Blae |
23 September 1944 League | Airdrie | 2–1[13][14] | Dumbarton | Broomfield Park |
Aitken Ferguson |
Brooks |
Attendance: 3,000 |
30 September 1944 League | Dumbarton | 2–5[15][16] | Third Lanark | Boghead Park |
Timmins |
McIntosh Dawson Orr |
Attendance: 3,000 Referee: W Livingston |
7 October 1944 League | Dumbarton | 2–2[17][18] | Queen's Park | Boghead Park |
Mooney Timmins |
Hodge |
Attendance: 2,500 |
14 October 1944 League | Hearts | 4–0[19][20] | Dumbarton | Tynecastle Stadium |
Conn Kelly Urquhart |
Attendance: 5,000 |
21 October 1944 League | Dumbarton | 0–4[21][22] | Morton | Boghead Park |
McAloon Kelly Crum |
Attendance: 5,000 |
28 October 1944 League | Albion Rovers | 2–4[23][24] | Dumbarton | Cliftonhill |
McIlhatton |
Reid Hepburn Brooks |
Attendance: 1,000 |
11 November 1944 League | Rangers | 5–2[25][26] | Dumbarton | Ibrox Park |
Duncanson Waddell Symon Watkins |
Dolan Brawley |
Attendance: 12,000 |
18 November 1944 League | Dumbarton | 3–0[27][28] | Clyde | Boghead Park |
Reid Milne |
Attendance: 6,000 |
25 November 1944 League | Dumbarton | 2–6[29][30] | Motherwell | Boghead Park |
Marshall |
Watson McCulloch Mathie Ross |
Attendance: 6,000 Referee: C Blues |
2 December 1944 League | Partick Thistle | 1–2[31][32] | Dumbarton | Firhill Park |
Sharp |
Reid Brooks |
Attendance: 5,000 |
9 December 1944 League | Dumbarton | 3–1[33][34] | St Mirren | Boghead Park |
Murphy Reid Pritchard |
Linwood |
Attendance: 4,000 Referee: C R Blues |
30 December 1944 League | Celtic | 2–1[39][40] | Dumbarton | Celtic Park |
McLaughlin |
Marshall |
Attendance: 9,000 |
1 January 1945 League | Dumbarton | 1–4[41][42] | Falkirk | Boghead Park |
Brawley |
Fizsimmons Henderson Bagan |
6 January 1945 League | Third Lanark | 0–2[45][46] | Dumbarton | Cathkin Park |
Marshall McMillan |
Attendance: 5,000 |
13 January 1945 League | Queen's Park | 2–0[47][48] | Dumbarton | Hampden Park |
Harris |
Attendance: 4,000 |
3 February 1945 League | Dumbarton | 3–2[49][50] | Albion Rovers | Boghead Park |
Filshie Pritchard |
Hannah |
Attendance: 2,000 |
10 February 1945 League | Hamilton | 3–3[51][52] | Dumbarton | Douglas Park |
Jarvie Jones Burns |
Reid Murphy |
Attendance: 1,000 |
17 February 1945 League | Dumbarton | 3–6[53][54] | Rangers | Boghead Park |
Milne Murphy Gray |
Gillick Duncanson Young |
Attendance: 4,000 |
7 April 1945 League | Morton | 2–1[55][56] | Dumbarton | Cappielow Park |
Henderson McInnes |
Reid |
Attendance: 5,000 |
League Cup South
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 | 2–1[61] | Dumbarton | Fir Park |
Mathie |
Murphy |
Attendance: 4,000 |
3 March 1945 Group D | Dumbarton | 0–0[62] | Hearts | Boghead Park |
Attendance: 4,000 |
10 March 1945 Group D | Dumbarton | 5–1[63] | St Mirren | Boghead Park |
Hepburn Murphy Brawley Reid |
Feeham |
Attendance: 3,000 |
17 March 1945 Group D | Dumbarton | 2–2[64] | Motherwell | Boghead Park |
Hepburn Pritchard |
Kilmarnock McCulloch |
Attendance: 7,000 |
24 March 1945 Group D | Hearts | 6–2[65] | Dumbarton | Tynecastle Stadium |
Kelly McCrae Miller McClure |
Reid Brawley |
Attendance: 15,000 |
31 March 1945 Group D | St Mirren | 3–1[66] | Dumbarton | Love Street (stadium) |
Linwood Feehan |
Filshie |
Attendance: 3,000 |
Summer Cup
Dumbarton suffered another first round defeat in the Summer Cup, this time to Partick Thistle.
26 May 1945 Cup 1(1) | Partick Thistle | 4–4[67] | Dumbarton | Firhill Park |
Stockdale Shankley McGeachie |
Murphy Hepburn Browning |
Attendance: 7,000 |
2 June 1945 Cup 1(2) | Dumbarton | 1–2[68] (5–6 agg.) | Partick Thistle | Boghead Park |
Timmins |
Johnson |
Attendance: 5,000 |
Player statistics
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 | 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | John Craig[78] | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
MF | Bobby Donaldson | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
MF | Frank Douglas[79] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | Andrew Easton[80] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | Hugh Hart[81] | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | Cliff Mansley | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | Andrew McAlpine[82] | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
MF | Gordon McFarlane[83] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
MF | Jackie Milne | 22 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
MF | Willie Reid[84] | 33 | 15 | 27 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | ||
MF | Jimmy Timmins[85] | 23 | 6 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Robert Torrance[86] | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Andrew Boyd[87] | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | George Brooks[88] | 20 | 7 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
FW | George Campbell | 27 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||
FW | Dolan[89] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Alexander Filshie[90] | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
FW | John Hepburn[91] | 28 | 6 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | ||
FW | Donald MacMillan[92] | 8 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Ernest Marshall[93] | 15 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
FW | Victor McAloney[94] | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Jimmy McGowan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Albert McLean[95] | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Mooney[96] | 7 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Robert Murphy[97] | 26 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||
FW | Vince Pritchard[98] | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||
FW | Angus Stead[99] | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
FW | Trialists | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source:[100]
Transfers
Players in
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Players out
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Source:[101]
Reserve team
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.
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