1946–47 Dumbarton F.C. season

The 1946–47 season was the 63rd official Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, and the first where Scottish football got back to normal after the end of WW2. Dumbarton entered the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup, the inaugural Scottish League Cup and the Supplementary Cup. In addition Dumbarton competed in the Stirlingshire Cup.

Dumbarton
1946–1947 season
ManagerWilliam Guthrie
StadiumBoghead Park, Dumbarton
Scottish League B Division13th
Scottish CupFourth Round
Scottish League CupPrelims
B Division Supplementary CupFirst Round
Top goalscorerLeague: Robert Stirling (9)
All: Robert Stirling (12)
Highest home attendance6,000
Lowest home attendance1,000
Average home league attendance3,030

Scottish Football League
Main article: 1946-47 Scottish Football League

Scottish football returned to normal after an absence of seven seasons. Dumbarton played in Division B and finished a disappointing 13th out of 14 with 18 points - 27 behind champions Dundee.

10 August 1946 Division B Dumbarton 2–3[1][2] St Johnstone Boghead Park
Sneddon  5', 70' Robbie  23'
Cook  14', 75'		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: J Jackson
17 August 1946 Division B Raith Rovers 5–1[3][4] Dumbarton Starks Park
Muir  32', 54'
Gilmour  58'
Mackie  71'
Stewart  89'		 Bootland 82' Attendance: 8,000
Referee: J Thomson
24 August 1946 Division B Dumbarton 2–2[5][6] Ayr United Boghead Park
Sneddon  55'
McMillan  60'		 Wallace  15'
Harkness  27'		 Attendance: 2,000
31 August 1946 Division B Albion Rovers 3–0[7][8] Dumbarton Cliftonhill
McCalman  6' (OG)
Findlay  61'
McClure  64'		 Attendance: 7,000
Referee: W Webb
7 September 1946 Division B Dumbarton 2–1[9][10] Dundee Boghead Park
Bootland  5'
Young  33'		 Juliussen  4' Attendance: 4,000
Referee: J Thomson
14 September 1946 Division B Stenhousemuir 0–1[11][12] Dumbarton Ochilview Park
Bootland  60' Attendance: 2,000
Referee: J B Smillie
2 November 1946 Division B Alloa Athletic 0–2[13][14] Dumbarton Recreation Park, Alloa
Bowman  30' (OG)
Young 		Attendance: 4,000
Referee: A Watt
9 November 1946 Division B Dumbarton 0–1[15][16] Arbroath Boghead Park
Gauslin  49' Attendance: 3,000
Referee: J B Smillie
16 November 1946 Division B Dundee United 2–1[17][18] Dumbarton Tannadice Park
Stewart  5' (pen)
Lister  78'		 Gilmour  11' Attendance: 5,000
Referee: J M Martin
23 November 1946 Division B Dumbarton 2–3[19][20] Airdrie Boghead Park
Gilmour  4', 23' Flavell  6', 13'
Cunningham  60'		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: R G Benzie
30 November 1946 Division B Dumbarton 5–1[21][22] Cowdenbeath Boghead Park
Ashe  4'
Bootland  21' (pen)
Gilmour  32', 67'
Sneddon  34'		 Boyd  80' Attendance: 2,000
Referee: M C Dale
7 December 1946 Division B East Fife 1–0[23][24] Dumbarton Bayview Stadium
Canavan  35' Attendance: 3,500
Referee: D Gerrard
14 December 1946 Division B Dumbarton 1–2[25][26] Dunfermline Athletic Boghead Park
Gillmour  15' Munro  33'
Noble  52'		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: W Brown
21 December 1946 Division B St Johnstone 5–2[27][28] Dumbarton Muirton Park
Brown  2', 47'
Robbie  43', 72'
O'Hagen  81'		 Donegan  20', 57' Attendance: 4,000
Referee: R Duthie
28 December 1946 Division B Dumbarton 1–1[29][30] Raith Rovers Boghead Park
Morrison  27' Gilmour  13' Attendance: 2,500
Referee: R G Carruthers
1 January 1947 Division B Ayr United 2–1[31][32] Dumbarton Somerset Park
Nisbet
Beattie 		Morrison
2 January 1947 Division B Dumbarton 1–1[33][34] Albion Rovers Boghead Park
Morrison  75' Stevenson  61' Attendance: 3,000
4 January 1947 Division B Dumbarton 0–2[35][36] Dundee United Boghead Park
Lister  2'
Grant  47'		 Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Jack Mowat
18 January 1947 Division B Dumbarton 1–0[37][38] East Fife Boghead Park
Milligan  2' Attendance: 3,000
Referee: R G Benzie
15 February 1947 Division B Dumbarton 2–2[39][40] Alloa Athletic Boghead Park
Stirling  67'
Donegan  75'		 Anderson  51'
Wilson  65'		 Attendance: 6,000
Referee: F Scott
8 March 1947 Division B Dumbarton 4–1[41][42] Stenhousemuir Boghead Park
Donegan  2'
Bootland  23' (pen)
Wallace  78'
Stirling  88'		 Newall  25' Attendance: 5,000
Referee: G Bruce
22 March 1947 Division B Airdrie 5–4[43][44] Dumbarton Broomfield Park
Flavell  5', 8', 28', 37', 81' Stirling  23', 89'
Wallace  39' (pen), 73' (pen)		 Attendance: 8,000
Referee: J Jackson
5 April 1947 Division B Dundee 4–0[45][46] Dumbarton Dens Park
Smith  64'
Rattray  84', 87', 89'		 Attendance: 5,873
Referee: R E Carruthers
12 April 1947 Division B Cowdenbeath 2–1[47][48] Dumbarton Central Park, Cowdenbeath
Cowan  5'
McCreadie  82'		 Milligan  85' Attendance: 3,000
Referee: R Calder
19 April 1947 Division B Dunfermline Athletic 3–2[49][50] Dumbarton East End Park
Kinnell  10', 55', 85' Stirling  50', 51' Attendance: 3,000
Referee: J Jackson
26 April 1947 Division B Arbroath 2–3[51][52] Dumbarton Gayfield Park
Carrie  12'
Esplin  82'		 Stirling  18', 32', 89' Attendance: 3,500
Referee: J Scott

Supplementary Cup

The Supplementary Cup for B Division teams continued, but Dumbarton fell at the first hurdle to Alloa.

14 August 1946 1st Rnd 1st Leg Alloa Athletic 4–1 Dumbarton Recreation Park, Alloa
McCulloch
21 August 1946 1st Rnd 2nd Leg Dumbarton 2–0
(3–4 agg.)		 Alloa Athletic Boghead Park
McMillan
Donegan

League Cup
Main article: 1946–47 Scottish League Cup

Following the success of the format of the Southern League Cup played during wartime conditions, the inaugural League Cup was played but Dumbarton failed to progress from their section, finishing 3rd of 4 with just 2 wins from 6 games.

21 September 1946 Section 7 Arbroath 4–1[53][54] Dumbarton Gayfield Park
Smith  40', 77'
Fraser  57'
Murray  74'		 Forshaw Attendance: 4,000
Referee: D Duthie
28 September 1946 Section 7 Dumbarton 0–3[55][56] Dundee United Boghead Park
McKinnon  15', 65'
Pacione  39'		 Attendance: 3,500
Referee: W M Crawford
5 October 1946 Section 7 Dumbarton 0–4[57][58] Cowdenbeath Boghead Park
Browning,J  38', 55', 79'
Jones  73'		 Attendance: 4,000
Referee: T Shirley
12 October 1946 Section 7 Dumbarton 8–0[59][60] Arbroath Boghead Park
Donegan  9'
Lindsay  33'
Young  35'
Forshaw  37', 47', 49'
Johnstone  68'
Bootland  87'		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: T A Mowatt
19 October 1946 Section 7 Dundee United 2–1[61][62] Dumbarton Tannadice Park
Lister  42'
Pacione  79'		 Bootland  25' Attendance: 11,000
26 October 1946 Section 7 Cowdenbeath 2–3[63][64] Dumbarton Central Park, Cowdenbeath
Browning  22'
Cowan  61'		 Bootland  14'
Gilmour  34'
Young  80'		 Attendance: 4,500
Referee: W Davidson

Scottish Cup
Main article: 1946–47 Scottish Cup

The return of the Scottish Cup brought much cheer, and after dispatching A Division opponents St Mirren and Third Lanark, Dumbarton lost out narrowly to Hibernian in the fourth round.

25 January 1947 Round 1 St Mirren 2–3[65][66] Dumbarton Love Street (stadium)
McLaren  75'
Crowe  82'		 Donegan  25'
Stirling  32', 76'		 Attendance: 10,976
Referee: W Davidson
22 February 1947 Round 3 Dumbarton 2–0[67][68] Third Lanark Boghead Park
Stirling  8'
Bootland  89'		 Attendance: 10,000
Referee: W Webb
15 March 1947 Round 4 Hibernian 2–0[69][70] Dumbarton Easter Road Stadium
Smith  1'
Cuthbertson  64'		 Attendance: 32,579
Referee: J R Boyd

Stirlingshire Cup

East Stirling defeated Dumbarton in the first round after a drawn match.

27 August 1946 1st Rnd East Stirlingshire 2–2 Dumbarton Firs Park
McCormack  25'
Crawford  44'		 Sneddon  13'
McCulloch  70'		 Attendance: 2,000
30 April 1947 1st Rnd Replay Dumbarton 1–3 East Stirlingshire Boghead Park
Johnstone  55' Halderstone
Crawford
Inglis  60'

Friendlies

Two 'friendly' matches were arranged. One against A Division Partick Thistle and the other against a team of Polish internationalists, billed as a Polish Army XI who were touring post-war Europe.

26 October 1946 Friendly Dumbarton 4–6 Polish Army XI Boghead Park
29 March 1947 Friendly Dumbarton 2–4 Partick Thistle Boghead Park
Timmins  10'
Milligan  25'		 O'Donnell  7', 50'
Chisholm  58'
Mathie  84'		 Referee: P Mooney

Player statistics
No. Pos Nat Player TotalB DivisionScottish CupLeague CupSupplementary Cup
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
GK Jim Hoey[71] 340230306020
GK Ian Ogilvie 2020000000
DF John Boyle[72] 3030000000
DF Tommy Coyle[73] 4030000010
DF Colin McCalman[74] 330230306010
DF Robert Wallace[75] 333223306020
MF George Campbell 2020000000
MF Bobby Donaldson 370260306020
MF Jim Douglas[76] 10040004020
MF Lawrie Lindsay 211150105100
MF Jimmy Timmins[77] 180150200010
FW Ron Aitken 2010000010
FW Thomas Ashe 231181302000
FW Charlie Bootland 249165315300
FW Tom Donegan 337254313121
FW Jim Forshaw 8440004400
FW Leon Gallinski[78] 1010000000
FW Rod Gilmour[79] 237166005120
FW George Johnstone[80] 13190002120
FW Donald MacMillan[81] 5241000011
FW John McCulloch[82] 11160400011
FW Willie Miller[83] 3030000000
FW Wallace Milligan[84] 11282300000
FW Dave Morrison[85] 11383300000
FW Andy Sneddon[86] 10060002020
FW Robert Stirling[87] 111289330000
FW Willie Young[88] 164112005200
FW Trialists 5050000000

Source:[89]

Transfers

Source:[90]

In addition James Brown, John Getty, Thomas Jess, Gordon McFarlane, Victor McAloney, Bernard McDonald, William Neil, Bobby Ross and Robert Torrance would all have played their last 1st team game for Dumbarton before the end of the season.

Reserve team

Dumbarton entered the Scottish Second XI Cup but lost in the first round to Albion Rovers.

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