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.

Dumbarton
1939–1940 season
ManagerJimmy Smith
StadiumBoghead Park, Dumbarton
Scottish Western Division16th
War Emergency CupSecond Round
Top goalscorerLeague: Alex Stewart (7)
All: Alex Stewart(7)

Scottish Second Division
Main article: 1939–40 in Scottish football

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 80' Nichol 60'
Getty 85'		 Referee: J Rennie
19 August 1939 League Dumbarton 3-3
VOID		 East Fife Boghead Park
Cowan 32'
McBride 37'
Nichol 50'		 McKerrel 19'
Adams 58'
Wilkie 84'		 Attendance: 5,500
Referee: J Mackay
26 August 1939 League Dundee 3-1 [2]
VOID		 Dumbarton Dens Park
Warnock 23'
Coats 36'
Adam 		McBride 51' Referee: J Smillie
2 September 1939 League Dumbarton 3-2[3]
VOID		 Edinburgh City Boghead Park
Cowan 63', 70', 82' Brown 30', 57' 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 (pen) Kyle Attendance: 4,000
Referee: R Carruthers
28 October 1939 League Kilmarnock 5-0[6][7] Dumbarton Rugby Park
Collins 21', 38', 47'
Thomson 71'		 Attendance: 3,000
4 November 1939 League Dumbarton 4-1[8][9] Albion Rovers Boghead Park
Browning 3'
Speedie 27'
Murray 63'
Mills 70'		 Sharp 85' Attendance: 5,000
Referee: J Mackay
11 November 1939 League Clyde 3-3[10][11] Dumbarton Rugby Park
Wallace 40', 58'
Mills 63'		 Mills 1'
Murray 5', 50'		 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 70'
Venters 75'		 Murray 19' Attendance: 7,000
Referee: W Webb
2 December 1939 League Airdrie 3-2[16][17] Dumbarton Broomfield Park
Mooney 2', 52', 88' Dunn 31'
Mills 71' (pen)		 Referee: R Scott
9 December 1939 League Dumbarton 2-1[18][19] Ayr United Boghead Park
Mills 4'
Dunn 51'		 Clark Attendance: 1,500
Referee: J Thomson
16 December 1939 League Motherwell 5-1[20][21] Dumbarton Fir Park
Ogilvie 30', 41', 56'
Wood 63'
Wales 65'		 Mathers 88' (pen) Attendance: 2,500
Referee: J Mackay
23 December 1939 League Dumbarton 1-5[22][23] Celtic Boghead Park
Mathers 15' (pen) Divers 16', 80'
Gould 44', 82'
McDonald 55'		 Attendance: 7.000
30 December 1939 League Partick Thistle 0-4[24][25] Dumbarton Firhill Park
Collins 27', 83'
Nichol
Dunn 60'		 Attendance: 4,000
Referee: R Carruthers
1 January 1940 League Dumbarton 3-2[26][27] Morton Boghead Park
Milne
Speedie 		Milne
Calder
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 44' Attendance: 2,000
Referee: R Carruthers
23 March 1940 League Celtic 4-0[38][39] Dumbarton Celtic Park
McDonald
Geatons
Divers
Kelly
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
6 April 1940 League Morton 5-0[46][47] Dumbarton Cappielow Park
Turnbull
Calder
Steel
10 April 1940 League Dumbarton 2-2[48][49] Kilmarnock Boghead Park
Mathers 30' (pen)
Dunn 44'		 Newman 15'
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
4 May 1940 League Dumbarton 0-1[60][61] Airdrie Boghead Park
Soutar (OG) Attendance: 1,800
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 Scottish 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 24'
Milne
Lang 70'		 Miller 61'
Mudie 		Attendance: 4,500
Referee: C Faultless
2 March 1940 Cup R1(2) Arbroath 0–2[65]
(3-6 agg.)		 Dumbarton Gayfield Park
Dunn Attendance: 2,150
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
(OG)

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 10'
McPhee 15' (pen)
Stewart 78'		 Nichol 40'
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 TotalWestern DivisionEmergency Cup
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
GK Scotland SCO John Hill[67] 606000
GK Scotland SCO William Morrison[68] 101000
GK Scotland SCO Duncan Yuill[69] 26023030
DF Scotland SCO James Brown[70] 404000
DF Scotland SCO John Casey 19116130
DF Scotland SCO Johnny Soutar[71] 33030030
DF Scotland SCO Willie Steel 19019000
DF Scotland SCO Kenneth Stewart[72] 202000
MF Scotland SCO John Browning 28225230
MF Scotland SCO Robert Fraser[73] 606000
MF Scotland SCO John Mathers[74] 26424420
MF Scotland SCO David McLean[75] 18217210
MF Scotland SCO Stephen Murray 949400
MF Scotland SCO Fulton Wilson[76] 15013020
FW Scotland SCO Bowden 101000
FW Scotland SCO David Collins 24322320
FW Scotland SCO David Cowan 212100
FW Scotland SCO Willie Dunn 18715433
FW Scotland SCO John Getty 505000
FW Scotland SCO John Lang 14411232
FW Scotland SCO John McBride[77] 101000
FW Scotland SCO Willie Mills 747400
FW Scotland SCO Jackie Milne 15614511
FW Scotland SCO William Nichol[78] 27224230
FW Scotland SCO James Shields[79] 656500
FW Scotland SCO Smith[80] 101000
FW Scotland SCO Bobby Speedie[81] 19417420
FW Scotland SCO Alex Stewart[82] 11711700

Source:[83]

Transfers

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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