1923–24 Dumbarton F.C. season

Dumbarton
1923–1924 season
ManagerDonald Colman
StadiumBoghead Park, Dumbarton
Scottish League Division Two10th
Scottish CupFirst Round
Top goalscorerLeague: Carlow/ Love/ Stalker (9)
All: Stalker (10)

The 1923–24 season was the 47th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League and the Scottish Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Dumbartonshire Cup.

Scottish League

Main article: 1923–24 Scottish Football League

With a second successive season in the Second Division, Dumbarton looked to push once more for a promotion place but by the turn of the year they were languishing in 17th place and threatened with relegation to the Third Division. Nevertheless an unbeaten 10 match run took them to 7th - but a promotion was never a reality and a 10th place finish was achieved, out of 20, with 39 points - 17 behind champions St Johnstone[1]

18 August 1923 League Dumbarton 0-1 [2][3] Albion Rovers Boghead Park
Fleming 50' Attendance: 2,500
Referee: W Addison
26 August 1923 League King's Park 2-0 [4][5] Dumbarton Forthbank Park
McLavin
Lamond 		Attendance: 3,000
1 September 1923 League Dumbarton 2-2 [6][7] Cowdenbeath Boghead Park
Loney
Miller 43'		 Sinclair 20' (pen)
Henderson 22'		 Referee: J Sinclair
8 September 1923 League Alloa Athletic 0-2 [8][9] Dumbarton Recreation Park, Alloa
Miller (pen)
Loney
15 September 1923 League Dumbarton 1-0 [10][11] Arbroath Boghead Park
Hyslop 44' Attendance: 2,000
Referee: G Grant
22 September 1923 League Bathgate 2-1 [12][13] Dumbarton Mill Park, Bathgate
Pearson (pen)
Drummond 		Love Attendance: 2,000
Referee: A Weir
29 September 1923 League Dumbarton 1-1 [14][15] Bo'ness Boghead Park
Kennedy 35' Kelly 40' Attendance: 1,500
Referee: J Robertson
6 October 1923 League East Fife 2-0 [16][17] Dumbarton Bayview Park, Methil
Cahill
Edgar 		Attendance: 3,500
Referee: A Weir
13 October 1923 League Dumbarton 1-0 [18][19] Vale of Leven Boghead Park
Love Attendance: 3,500
Referee: J Kirkbride
20 October 1923 League Johnstone 0-1 [20][21] Dumbarton Newfield Park, Johnstone
Loney 20'
27 October 1923 League Dumbarton 3-0 [22][23] Dundee United Boghead Park
Kennedy 37'
Mair 60'
Love 		Attendance: 1,000
Referee: H Dickie
3 November 1923 League Armadale 4-1 [24][25] Dumbarton Volunteer Park, Armadale
Ramsay 4', 40', 67'
Cullen 69'		 Love 84' Attendance: 2,000
Referee: J Grant
10 November 1923 League Dumbarton 1-4 [26][27] St Johnstone Boghead Park
Love 5' Ribchester
Hart
Fleming 		Attendance: 2,000
Referee: J Rowe
17 November 1923 League Dumbarton 2-0 [28][29] Broxburn United Boghead Park
Love 20'
Mair 		Attendance: 1,500
Referee: T Robertson
24 November 1923 League Dunfermline Athletic 2-0 [30][31] Dumbarton East End Park
Dickson 5'
Meikle 		Attendance: 3,000
Referee: G Robertson
1 December 1923 League Forfar Athletic 3-1 [32][33] Dumbarton Station Park, Forfar
Miller 5'
Duncan 50'
Clark 55'		 Hyslop (pen) Referee: P Craigmyle
8 December 1923 League Dumbarton 0-1 [34][35] Stenhousemuir Boghead Park
Aitken 70' (pen) Attendance: 1,000
Referee: J Martin
15 December 1923 League Dumbarton 3-0 [36][37] Lochgelly United Boghead Park
Hyslop 15'
Love 55'
Mair 88' (pen)		 Attendance: 1,000
Referee: W Addison
22 December 1923 League St Bernard's 3-0 [38][39] Dumbarton Old Logie Green
Young (pen) Referee: J Martin
29 December 1923 League Dumbarton 1-0 [40][41] Dunfermline Athletic Boghead Park
Miller 15' Attendance: 1,000
Referee: J Aitken
1 January 1924 League Dumbarton 0-5 [42][43] King's Park Boghead Park
McLavin
Mackie 52' 82'
McConnachie 64'		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: T McMillan
2 January 1924 League Albion Rovers 1-0 [44][45] Dumbarton Cliftonhill
Kirk Attendance: 4,000
5 January 1924 League Broxburn United 3-0 [46][47] Dumbarton Sports Park, Broxburn
Angus 40'
Hare 48'
Hendry 55'		 Referee: W Gray
19 January 1924 League Stenhousemuir 1-2 [48][49] Dumbarton Ochilview Park
McCaig 12' Stalker
Carlow 		Referee: J Sinclair
2 February 1924 League Dumbarton 1-1 [50][51] East Fife Boghead Park
Kennedy Hunter Attendance: 2,000
Referee: W Bell
13 February 1924 League St Johnstone 4-4 [52][53] Dumbarton Recreation Grounds, Perth
Rollo
Walker
Trialist 		Carlow 30'
Thomson
16 February 1924 League Dundee United 0-1 [54][55] Dumbarton Tannadice Park
Carlow 75' Attendance: 3,000
20 February 1924 League Dumbarton 5-1 [56][57] Forfar Athletic Boghead Park
Miller 20'
Stalker 30', 85'
Hyslop 45'
Carlow 		HcLean 75' Attendance: 2,000
Referee: D Calder
23 February 1924 League Dumbarton 5-0 [58][59] Alloa Athletic Boghead Park
Stalker
Kennedy
Love
Miller (pen)		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: W Gray
1 March 1924 League Lochgelly United 0-2 [60][61] Dumbarton Recreation Park (Lochgelly)
Stalker Referee: J Calder
12 March 1924 League Dumbarton 1-0 [62][63] St Bernard's Boghead Park
Thomson
15 March 1924 League Vale of Leven 2-2 [64][65] Dumbarton Millburn Park
Donald 30' (pen)
McLardie 		Kennedy 57'
Love 80'		 Attendance: 2,500
Referee: W Gray
22 March 1924 League Bo'ness 0-2 [66][67] Dumbarton Newtown Park, Bo'ness
Stalker 20' Referee: J Rowe
29 March 1924 League Dumbarton 0-2 [68][69] Armadale Boghead Park
Cullen 57'
Dale 85'		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: J Aitken
5 April 1924 League Arbroath 3-0 [70][71] Dumbarton Gayfield Park
McFarlane 63' 73' (pen) Attendance: 3,500
Referee: T Small
12 April 1924 League Cowdenbeath 4-1 [72][73] Dumbarton Central Park, Cowdenbeath
Devlin (pen)
Leonard
Smith
Wilson 		Thomson Attendance: 5,000
Referee: J Martin
19 April 1924 League Dumbarton 2-1 [74][75] Johnstone Boghead Park
Carlow Referee: D Calder
26 April 1924 League Dumbarton 6-2 [76][77] Bathgate Boghead Park
Kennedy 10'
Thomson
Loney
Hyslop 50'
Miller 85' (pen)		 Drummond
Leadbetter 44'		 Referee: W Gray

Scottish Cup

Main article: 1923–24 Scottish Cup

For the third season in a row, Dumbarton were knocked out in the first round, this time by Aberdeen.

26 January 1924 Cup R1 Aberdeen 2–1[78][79] Dumbarton Pittodrie Park
Jackson 20'
Miller 81'		 Stalker Attendance: 12,000
Referee: W Campbell

Dumbartonshire Cup

The county cup reverted to knock out format and Dumbarton lost in the first round to Clydebank, after a replay.

12 September 1923 First Round Dumbarton 1–1 Clydebank Boghead Park
Hyslop Devon
16 April 1924 First Round replay Clydebank 2–0 Dumbarton Clydeholm Park
Smith 55', 90' Attendance: 500
Referee: J Rowe

Friendlies

Three 'friendly' matches were played, winning 1 and losing 2, scoring 4 goals for the loss of 7.

8 March 1924 Friendly Hamilton 0–2 Dumbarton Douglas Park
30 April 1924 Friendly Dumbarton 1–4 Celtic Boghead Park
McGhee


3 May 1924 Friendly Helensburgh 3–1[80] Dumbarton Helensburgh

Player statistics

Squad

No. Pos Nat Player Total Second Division Scottish Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
GK Scotland SCO Andrew Chalmers[81] 18 0 17 0 1 0
GK Scotland SCO Harper[82] 1 0 1 0 0 0
GK Scotland SCO Arthur King 20 0 20 0 0 0
DF Scotland SCO Cairns[83] 4 0 4 0 0 0
DF Scotland SCO William Gibson 37 0 36 0 1 0
DF Scotland SCO Alex Murray[84] 2 0 2 0 0 0
DF Scotland SCO James Warden 1 0 1 0 0 0
DF Scotland SCO Robert Robertson[85] 25 0 24 0 1 0
MF Scotland SCO Beattie[86] 2 0 2 0 0 0
MF Scotland SCO Joseph Bell[87] 16 0 16 0 0 0
MF Scotland SCO William Hyslop[88] 34 5 33 5 1 0
MF Scotland SCO Henry Loney[89] 38 4 37 4 1 0
MF Scotland SCO Andrew Mair 37 3 36 3 1 0
MF Scotland SCO James Stalker[90] 33 10 32 9 1 1
FW Scotland SCO Duncan Cameron 6 0 6 0 0 0
FW Scotland SCO Francis Carlow 14 9 13 9 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Donald Colman 1 0 1 0 0 0
FW Scotland SCO Alexander Hunter[91] 1 0 1 0 0 0
FW Scotland SCO Alex Jackson 2 0 2 0 0 0
FW Scotland SCO Philip Kennedy 39 5 38 5 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Thomas Love[92] 29 9 29 9 0 0
FW Scotland SCO McGoldrick[93] 1 0 1 0 0 0
FW Scotland SCO Andrew Miller 39 6 38 6 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Norman Thomson 23 5 22 5 1 0
FW Scotland SCO Trialist 6 0 6 0 0 0

Source:[94]

[95]

Transfers

In addition McGoldrick and Cairns (St Roch's), Beattie (Vale of Leven), and Alex Murray, James Warden, Harper and Alexander Hunter all played as 'trialists'.

Source:[96]

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