# 1954–55 Dumbarton F.C. season

The 1954–55 season was the 71st Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup and the Supplementary League Cup. In addition Dumbarton competed in the Stirlingshire Cup.

## Scottish League Division C (South-West)

With club finances re-structured, a new manager (Peter McGown having taken over from Willie Irvine) and a new youthful team in place, the season was approached with some confidence, in the knowledge that only winning the league would guarantee a return to the top 'tiers' of Scottish football.
However, things were not going to be easy, since apart from Stranraer, their league opponents would be the reserve (or 'A') sides of the bigger clubs from the top two divisions - and so it was to prove, for despite challenging strongly throughout the season, and topping the league in early March, in the end only 4th place out of 13 was achieved,
Nevertheless, league re-construction at the end of the season meant that the Divisions C were brought to an end, with Dumbarton, Stranraer, Montrose, East Stirling and Berwick Rangers all joining a revamped 19 team Second Division for season 1955-56.

### League table

Top Four
| P | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Partick Thistle 'A' | 24 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 89 | 36 | 53 | 40 |
| 2 | Rangers 'A' | 24 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 53 | 26 | 27 | 36 |
| 3 | St Mirren 'A' | 24 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 57 | 39 | 18 | 34 |
| 4 | Dumbarton | 24 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 58 | 46 | 12 | 30 |

## Scottish Cup

There was an early exit in the Cup with Dumbarton losing to Montrose in the third round.

## Scottish Supplementary League Cup

No progress was made from the sectional games in the Supplementary League Cup, finishing 5th of 7.

### Section Table

| P | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Rangers 'A' | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 17 | 15 | 21 |
| 2 | St Mirren 'A' | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 18 | 12 | 15 |
| 3 | Partick Thistle 'A' | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 32 | 22 | 10 | 15 |
| 4 | Clyde 'A' | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 28 | –5 | 11 |
| 5 | Dumbarton | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 19 | –6 | 10 |
| 6 | Queens Park Strollers | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 28 | –12 | 6 |
| 7 | Third Lanark 'A' | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 20 | 35 | –15 | 6 |

## Stirlingshire Cup

There was also a first round defeat in the county cup, to East Stirling.

## Player statistics

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | C Division (SW) | C Division (SW) | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup | Supplementary League Cup | Supplementary League Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| | GK | SCO | Lawrence Leslie | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | GK | SCO | Wallace Murdoch | 21 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| | GK | SCO | Jimmy Ritchie | 15 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Jim Gray | 33 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | John McKay | 37 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Joe Cadden | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Don Cornock | 30 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Tommy Craig | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Jim Davie | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Joe Gallacher | 25 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Gilhooly | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Tommy Irwin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | John McCall | 32 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
| | MF | SCO | Moran | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Anderson | 17 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Bertie Auld | 19 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Les Brown | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Clements | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | FW | SCO | Docherty | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Duff | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| | FW | SCO | Jackie Fearn | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Jimmy Finnie | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Fraser | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Hugh Gallacher | 34 | 32 | 24 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 |
| | FW | SCO | Willie Gibson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | John Heaney | 26 | 9 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Tony Hepburn | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| | FW | SCO | Joe Johnston | 22 | 5 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | George Liddell | 10 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Jim Maguire | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Alex Mayberry | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Gerry McCaffrey | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | McCloy | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Jimmy McDonald | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Sandford | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Jimmy Timmins | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Jim Vine | 11 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Walsh | 15 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
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### Transfers

Amongst those players joining and leaving the club were the following:
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## Reserve Team

Dumbarton only played one official 'reserve' match in the Second XI Cup, losing in the first round to Clyde, after a replay.