# 1960–61 Dumbarton F.C. season

The 1960–61 season was the 77th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup. In addition Dumbarton competed in the Stirlingshire Cup.

## Scottish Second Division

Another good start to the season - unbeaten in the first four games - was not maintained and Dumbarton never really managed to progress above mid-table, finishing in 10th place with 35 points, 20 behind champions Stirling Albion.

## Scottish League Cup

With 3 wins and 3 draws from their 6 games, Dumbarton won their section in the League Cup, and following a play off win over Cowdenbeath, lost a close encounter with Queen of the South in the quarter-finals.

## Scottish Cup

In the Scottish Cup, Dumbarton had another early exit, losing to Alloa Athletic in the second round, having received a first round bye.

## Stirlingshire Cup

Locally Dumbarton again lost out to Falkirk in the semi-final of the Stirlingshire Cup, after a drawn game.

## Friendlies

Finally, amongst the friendlies played during the season were home and away fixtures against English Northern Counties League opponents, Gateshead.

## Player statistics
### Squad

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Second Division | Second Division | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup | League Cup | League Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| | GK | SCO | Tommy Agnew | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | GK | SCO | Willie Devlin | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | GK | SCO | Donaldson | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | GK | SCO | Bill Eadie | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | GK | SCO | Eddie O'Donnell | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | GK | SCO | Doug Robertson | 40 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| | GK | SCO | Alan Ross | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Tommy Govan | 22 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Charlie Hamill | 41 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Andy Jardine | 24 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | DF | SCO | Jim McGrogan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | John Bain | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Gordon Black | 39 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 |
| | MF | SCO | Tommy Craig | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | David Fagan | 11 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Tommy Ferns | 29 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Freddie Glidden | 42 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Peter Haggerty | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | John Hardie | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Jim Kilgannon | 25 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | MF | SCO | Hugh Murney | 18 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | John Bryce | 15 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 |
| | FW | SCO | Burns | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Billy Collings | 12 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Bobby Crum | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Alex Duchart | 20 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
| | FW | SCO | Fleming | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Hugh Gallacher | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Pat McGinlay | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Johnny MacKenzie | 31 | 7 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Gerry Murnin | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Danny O'Donnell | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Bert Ormond | 30 | 10 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 |
| | FW | SCO | Denis Smith | 13 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| | FW | SCO | Charlie Stewart | 12 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | George Tulloch | 8 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | FW | SCO | Tom Whalen | 34 | 12 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 |
| | FW | SCO | Trialists | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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### Transfers

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

Dumbarton played only one competitive 'reserve' match in the Scottish Second XI Cup, heavily defeated by Kilmarnock in the first round.