1950–51 Dumbarton F.C. season

Dumbarton

1950–1951 season

Manager

William Irvine

Stadium

Boghead Park, Dumbarton

Scottish League B Division

9th

Scottish Cup

First Round

Scottish League Cup

Prelims

Top goalscorer

League: Jim Finnie (10)
All: Jim Finnie (10)

← 1949–50

1951–52 →

Season 1950–51 was the 67th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 45th time, the Scottish Cup for the 56th time and the Scottish League Cup for the 5th time.

Overview

The league campaign looked to be following those of recent years, with the first win registered after 8 attempts, however a late burst of 5 wins in the final 6 games saw Dumbarton finish in a creditable 9th place (out of 16) with 29 points, 16 behind champions Queen of the South.

The Scottish Cup saw Dumbarton exit early to St Johnstone in the first round.

In the League Cup, qualification from the sectional games still proved a problem, finishing 4th and last, with a win and two draws being taken from their 6 games.

In the Stirlingshire Cup, Stirling Albion overcame Dumbarton in the semi final after two draws, but in a short-lived revival of the Stirlingshire Consolation Cup (a competition for those clubs eliminated early in the previous season's Stirlingshire Cup) Dumbarton finished as runners-up, again to Stirling Albion.

Results

Win
Draw
Loss

All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.

Scottish League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
9 September 1950	Dundee United	H	1-1	Parlane	7,000
23 September 1950	Queen's Park	H	0-1		5,000
30 September 1950	Cowdenbeath	A	1-1	McKay	3,000
7 October 1950	Arbroath	H	0-2
14 October 1950	Ayr United	A	1-3	Finnie	9,000
21 October 1950	Stirling Albion	A	2-3	Parlane;OG	8,000
28 October 1950	Stenhousemuir	H	3-3	Parlane(2);McAra	4,000
4 November 1950	Queen of the South	A	2-1	Parlane;Johnston	7,500
11 November 1950	Albion Rovers	H	1-5	Smith	1,000
18 November 1950	Dunfermline Athletic	H	1-2	Johnston	4,000
25 November 1950	Kilmarnock	A	3-1	Smith(2);Johnston	7,000
2 December 1950	Hamilton	A	1-0	Finnie	4,000
9 December 1950	Forfar Athletic	H	4-1	McKay(2);Johnston;Finnie	4,000
16 December 1950	St Johnstone	A	0-3		5,000
23 December 1950	Dundee United	A	2-3	Finnie(2)	8,500
30 December 1950	Alloa Athletic	A	2-2	Smith;Johnston	2,000
1 January 1951	Queen's Park	A	1-2	Donegan	8,000
2 January 1951	Cowdenbeath	H	1-0	Donegan
6 January 1951	Arbroath	A	2-3	Frame(2)	3,000
13 January 1951	Ayr United	H	2-0	Smith;Parlane	5,000
20 January 1951	Stirling Albion	H	4-0	Finnie(2);Parlane;Frame	7,000
10 February 1951	Queen of the South	H	0-1
17 February 1951	Albion Rovers	A	1-3	Shepherd
24 February 1951	Dunfermline Athletic	A	2-2	Frame;Finnie
3 March 1951	Kilmarnock	H	2-1	McAteer;Tait
10 March 1951	Hamilton	H	2-1	Frame;Tait
17 March 1951	Forfar Athletic	A	4-1	Frame(3);Smith
24 March 1951	St Johnstone	H	2-1	Tait;Frame
31 March 1951	Alloa Athletic	H	4-3	Donegan;Finnie;Parlane;Tait
7 April 1951	Stenhousemuir	A	1-3	Smith

Scottish Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
27 January 1951	1	St Johnstone	H	0-2		10,000

Scottish League Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
12 August 1950	P	Ayr United	H	1-4	Johnston	5,000
16 August 1950	P	Dunfermline Athletic	A	1-4	Miller
19 August 1950	P	Kilmarnock	H	1-0	McKay	5,000
28 August 1950	P	Ayr United	A	0-3		8,000
30 August 1950	P	Dunfermline Athletic	H	1-1	McKay
2 September 1950	P	Kilmarnock	A	0-0		8,000

Stirlingshire Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers
18 September 1950	1	Stenhousemuir	H	0-0
18 April 1951	1R	Stenhousemuir	A	3-1	Finnie;Parlane;Smith
28 April 1951	SF	Stirling Albion	A	0-0
11 May 1951	SFR	Stirling Albion	H	1-1	unknown
17 May 1951	SFR2	Stirling Albion	A	0-6

Stirlingshire Consolation Cup

Date	Rd	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
5 May 1951	SF	East Stirling	H	4-2	Finnie(4)
16 May 1951	F	Stirling Albion	A	1-6	Tait

Player Statistics

Squad^[1]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		B Division		Scottish Cup		League Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	GK		George Paton	37	0	30	0	1	0	6	0
	DF		Jack Cameron	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
	DF		George Ferguson	34	0	28	0	0	0	6	0
	DF		Jack McNee	36	0	30	0	1	0	5	0
	MF		Tommy Irwin	7	0	5	0	0	0	2	0
	MF		Don McDonald	23	0	23	0	0	0	0	0
	MF		Willie McLaren	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0
	MF		Jim Peden	9	0	4	0	0	0	5	0
	MF		John Sharp	25	0	22	0	1	0	2	0
	MF		Andy Tait	22	4	15	4	1	0	6	0
	MF		Jimmy Whyte	37	0	30	0	1	0	6	0
	FW		Alec Braidwood	10	0	6	0	0	0	4	0
	FW		Tom Donegan	15	3	14	3	0	0	1	0
	FW		Jim Finnie	27	10	26	10	1	0	0	0
	FW		Jimmy Frame	13	0	12	0	1	0	0	0
	FW		Bobby Gibson	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	FW		Willie Johnston	26	6	21	5	1	0	4	1
	FW		Bobby McAra	14	1	10	1	0	0	4	0
	FW		Thomas McAteer	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
	FW		Billy McGuinness	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
	FW		Bobby McKay	13	5	9	3	0	0	4	2
	FW		Robert Miller	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
	FW		Jimmy Parlane	18	8	14	8	1	0	3	0
	FW		Thomas Ramsay	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
	FW		George Shepherd	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
	FW		Duncan Smith	23	7	22	7	1	0	0	0
	FW		Gordon Speirs	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0

Transfers

Amongst those players joining and leaving the club were the following:^[2]

Players in

Player	From	Date
Robert Miller	Morton	9 Jun 1950
Bobby McAra	Dunipace	27 Jun 1950
Tommy Irwin	Denny Juv	30 Jun 1950
Jimmy Whyte	Dunipace	30 Jun 1950
Billy McGuinness	Dunfermline Ath	1 Aug 1950
George Shepherd	Clyde	1 Aug 1950
Thomas Ramsay	Cowdenbeath	2 Aug 1950
Alec Braidwood	Partick Thistle	7 Aug 1950
Jack Cameron	Dalmuir Rovers	7 Aug 1950
Bob McKay	Port Glasgow	7 Aug 1950
Gordon Spiers	John Browns	10 Aug 1950
Jimmy Parlane	Airdrie	24 Aug 1950
Jim Finnie	Clydebank	9 Oct 1950
Duncan Smith		31 Oct 1950
Jimmy Frame	Rangers	7 Dec 1950

Players out

Player	To	Date
Bobby Donaldson	Cowdenbeath	24 Jun 1950
Jackie Cantwell	Morton	3 Aug 1950
John Turnbull	Stirling Albion	9 Oct 1950
Alec Braidwood	Freed	30 Apr 1951
Bobby McAra	Freed	30 Apr 1951
Billy McGuinness	Freed	30 Apr 1951
Bob McKay	Freed	30 Apr 1951
Robert Miller	Freed	30 Apr 1951
Jimmy Parlane	Freed	30 Apr 1951
Thomas Ramsay	Freed	30 Apr 1951
George Shepherd	Freed	30 Apr 1951
Gordon Spiers	Freed	30 Apr 1951

Reserve Team

For the second successive season, Dumbarton played a reserve team in Division C (South West) and finished 15th out of 16, recording 7 wins and 4 draws from 30 matches. Note that in addition to the reserve sides of the bigger Division A teams in South and West Scotland, the first teams of East Stirlingshire (relegated from Division B two seasons previously) and Stranraer also competed in this league.

In the Second XI Cup, Dumbarton lost in the first round to Hamilton.

Finally in the Reserve League Cup, with only a single win from 6 sectional matches, Dumbarton failed to qualify for the knock-out stages.

Factfile

* The League Cup match against Ayr United on 26 August marked George Ferguson's 100th appearance for Dumbarton in all national competitions - the 36th Dumbarton player to reach this milestone.
* The League Cup match against Dunfermline Athletic on 30 August marked Jack McNee's 100th appearance for Dumbarton in all national competitions - the 37th Dumbarton player to reach this milestone.
* William Irvine replaced William Guthrie as team manager at the beginning of the season.
* The Supplementary Cup played for by B Division teams since 1946 was not completed in season 1949-50 due to dwindling interest, and therefore it was decided that there would be no competition this season.

References

↑ McAllister, Jim (2002). The Sons of the Rock - The Official History of Dumbarton Football Club. Dumbarton: J&J Robertson Printers.
↑ Litster, John. Record of Post-War Scottish League Players. Norwich: PM Publications.

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Domestic leagues	Football League Division One Division Two Highland League
Domestic cups	Scottish Cup (Final) League Cup (Final) Junior Cup
Related to national team	Results British Home Championship
Club seasons
Division One	Aberdeen Airdrieonians Celtic Clyde Dundee East Fife Falkirk Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Morton Motherwell Partick Thistle Rangers Raith Rovers St. Mirren Third Lanark
Division Two	Albion Rovers Alloa Athletic Arbroath Ayr United Cowdenbeath Dumbarton Dundee United Dunfermline Athletic Forfar Athletic Hamilton Academical Kilmarnock Queen of the South Queen's Park St. Johnstone Stenhousemuir Stirling Albion

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1950–51 Dumbarton F.C. season

Overview

Results

Scottish League

Scottish Cup

Scottish League Cup

Stirlingshire Cup

Stirlingshire Consolation Cup

Player Statistics

Squad[1]

Transfers

Players in

Players out

Reserve Team

Factfile

See also

References

External links

Squad^[1]