1929–30 Dumbarton F.C. season

The 1929–30 season was the 53rd Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League and the Scottish Cup. In addition Dumbarton competed in the Dumbartonshire Cup.

Dumbarton
1929–1930 season
ManagerDonald Colman
StadiumBoghead Park, Dumbarton
Scottish League Division Two16th
Scottish CupFirst Round
Top goalscorerLeague: Johnny Haddow (21)
All: Johnny Haddow (21)

Scottish League
Main article: 1929–30 Scottish Football League

With just 5 wins to show for their efforts in the league campaign up to the new year, it was to prove yet another fruitless season for Dumbarton, their eighth season in a row in the Second Division, and in the end finished 16th out of 20, with 30 points - 27 behind champions Leith Athletic.[1]

10 August 1929 LeagueDumbarton2-3 [2][3]Leith AthleticBoghead Park
Haddow
Speedie 		Nicol Attendance: 2,500
Referee: A McInally
17 August 1929 LeagueDunfermline Athletic2-3 [4][5]DumbartonEast End Park
Syme  10'
Patrick 		Haddow  48', 89'
Fairley  52'		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: N Brown
24 August 1929 LeagueDumbarton1-2 [6][7]Forfar AthleticBoghead Park
Haddow  70' Newman  65', 71' Attendance: 2,000
Referee: D Reilly
31 August 1929 LeagueMontrose6-0 [8][9]DumbartonLinks Park
Gentles  20', 30'
Breslin  38', 67'
White  54', 78'		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: J Leggat
7 September 1929 LeagueDumbarton1-2 [10][11]Alloa AthleticBoghead Park
Brannan Buchanan
Stoddart 		Referee: J Prior
14 September 1929 LeagueEast Fife4-1 [12][13]DumbartonBayview Park, Methil
Weir
McGachie
Nairn 		Brannan Attendance: 3,000
Referee: J Rowan
21 September 1929 LeagueDumbarton4-2 [14][15]King's ParkBoghead Park
Malloy
Haddow 		Crickett  45'
Toner 		Attendance: 1,500
28 September 1929 LeagueEast Stirling1-0 [16][17]DumbartonFirs Park
Renwick  22' Referee: G Robertson
5 October 1929 LeagueDumbarton2-5 [18][19]Bo'nessBoghead Park
Brannan  67'
Malloy  72'		 McLaren  65'
Hutcheson
Hunter  75'		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: J Robertson
12 October 1929 LeagueQueen of the South5-0 [20][21]DumbartonPalmerston Park
Newman  44'
McKenna
Hardie
Derby 		Referee: W Jamieson
19 October 1929 LeagueDumbarton2-3 [22][23]Raith RoversBoghead Park
Shaw  15'
Brannan  65'		 Beath  17'
Panther  45', 48'		 Referee: W Murray
26 October 1929 LeagueClydebank1-2 [24][25]DumbartonClydeholm Park
McNee Kirk  20'
Malloy  50'		 Referee: A McInally
2 November 1929 LeagueStenhousemuir5-0 [26][27]DumbartonOchilview Park
Penman
Jack  23'
Hastings
Robertson
Scouller  75'		 Referee: J Mackay
9 November 1929 LeagueDumbarton4-1 [28][29]Brechin CityBoghead Park
Haddow  30', pen'
Parlane,W  41'
Malloy  50'
Speedie  80'		 Cairns  70' Referee: J Robertson
16 November 1929 LeagueDumbarton4-3 [30][31]Third LanarkBoghead Park
Haddow  (pen) pen'Malloy Jack Attendance: 2,000
23 November 1929 LeagueArmadale2-1 [32][33]DumbartonVolunteer Park, Armadale
Pettigrew  6', 15' Haddow  5' Referee: W Jamieson
30 November 1929 LeagueDumbarton1-2 [34][35]Albion RoversBoghead Park
Haddow  20' (pen) Harkins  10'
Cameron  25'		 Referee: G McGreachan
7 December 1929 LeagueDumbarton1-4 [36][37]ArbroathBoghead Park
Haddow  44' Gallacher  58'
Jarvis  63', 85'
Mathewson  90'		 Referee: J Robertson
14 December 1929 LeagueSt Bernard's5-0 [38][39]DumbartonRoyal Gymnasium Ground
Forrest
Eadie
Morrison
Imrie 		Attendance: 1,500
Referee: R Seith
21 December 1929 LeagueLeith Athletic6-2 [40][41]DumbartonMarine Gardens
Young  32'
Johnston  44'
Robinson
Marshall 		Haddow  52'
Shaw 		Attendance: 2,000
Referee: G Robertson
28 December 1929 LeagueDumbarton1-3 [42][43]Dunfermline AthleticBoghead Park
Muir  (pen) Syme
Gilfillan  90'
1 January 1930 LeagueDumbarton1-3 [44][45]ClydebankBoghead Park
Parlane,W Walker  8'
Newman  40'
McCartney  90'
2 January 1930 LeagueRaith Rovers1-2 [46][47]DumbartonStarks Park
Beath  25' Trialist  45'
Hutcheson  (OG)
4 January 1930 LeagueForfar Athletic1-2 [48][49]DumbartonStation Park, Forfar
Kilgour  10' Haddow  40'
Trialist
11 January 1930 LeagueDumbarton2-2
VOID[50]		MontroseBoghead Park
Trialist  3'
Shaw  8'		 Breslin  18'
Gentles  51'		 Referee: J Robertson
25 January 1930 LeagueAlloa Athletic2-1 [51][52]DumbartonRecreation Park, Alloa
Hinds
McArthur  85'		 Malloy  15'
1 February 1930 LeagueDumbarton6-3 [53][54]East FifeBoghead Park
Swanson  1'
Stewart  25'
Malloy  48', 74'
Parlane,W
Haddow  85' (pen)		 Herbert  4'
Barrett  46'
Liddell  60'		 Referee: J Mackay
8 February 1930 LeagueKing's Park1-1 [55][56]DumbartonForthbank Park
Dyet,J  15' Malloy
15 February 1930 LeagueDumbarton5-3 [57][58]East StirlingBoghead Park
Shaw  3'
Haddow  pen'
Parlane,W Swanson 		Renwick  8'
Saunders 		Referee: J McCutcheon
22 February 1930 LeagueBo'ness3-1 [59][60]DumbartonNewtown Park, Bo'ness
Fleming  89'
Black  90'		 Haddow Attendance: 1,000
Referee: M Brown
1 March 1930 LeagueDumbarton4-0 [61][62]East StirlingBoghead Park
Parlane,W
Swanson 		Referee: H McLachlan
8 March 1930 LeagueDumbarton5-1 [63][64]StenhousemuirBoghead Park
Lennie  20'
Malloy  36'
Shaw  37'
Parlane,W  42'
Haddow 		Docherty  55' Attendance: 1,500
Referee: J Burdon
15 March 1930 LeagueBrechin City1-0 [65][66]DumbartonGlebe Park, Brechin
Gunn  51' Referee: J Leggat
22 March 1930 LeagueThird Lanark2-2 [67][68]DumbartonCathkin Park
Clark,B  15'
McLelland  78'		 Swanson  30'
Malloy  75'
29 March 1930 LeagueDumbarton6-0 [69][70]ArmadaleBoghead Park
Haddow  18' (pen)
Swanson  37', 85'
Parlane,W  51'
Swanson  55'
Stewart  69'		 Referee: J Rowan
5 April 1930 LeagueAlbion Rovers2-0 [71][72]DumbartonCliftonhill
Hart  46'
Harkins 		Referee: J Rowan
7 April 1930 LeagueDumbarton3-1 [73][74]MontroseBoghead Park
Malloy  20', 44'
Haddow 		Breslin Attendance: 1,100
Referee: J Robertson
12 April 1930 LeagueArbroath4-3 [75][76]DumbartonGayfield Park
Mathewson
Williamson  13' (pen)
Jarvis  34'
Gallacher  57'		 Lennie
Haddow <vr>Parlane,W  75'		 Attendance: 1,000
Referee: N Brown
19 April 1930 LeagueDumbarton3-0 [77][78]St Bernard'sBoghead Park
Haddow  (pen)
Malloy  47'
Lennie 		Attendance: 1,100
Referee: A McInally

Scottish Cup
Main article: 1929–30 Scottish Cup

Dumbarton were knocked out in the first round by Cowdenbeath.

18 January 1930 Cup R1Dumbarton1–4[79][80]CowdenbeathBoghead Park
Malloy  61' Black  5'
Lindsay  54', 81', 89' (pen)		 Attendance: 3,676
Referee: H Morrison

Dumbartonshire Cup

For the first time since 1923, Dumbarton won the Dumbartonshire Cup, beating Clydebank in the final.

29 April 1930 FinalDumbarton6-2ClydebankBoghead Park
Malloy
Parlane,J
Parlane.W
Attendance: 2,000

Friendly
15 April 1930 FriendlyDumbarton5–1Dumbartonshire Juveniles XIBoghead Park

Player statistics
No. Pos Nat Player TotalSecond DivisionScottish Cup
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
GK Alex Fraser[81] 24023010
GK Archibald McNish[82] 909000
GK John Thomson[83] 606000
DF Jim Kelso 38037010
DF William Livingstone[84] 303000
DF Daniel Muir[85] 36135110
MF David Beattie 202000
MF William Hyslop[86] 505000
MF Stewart Lennie[87] 38337310
MF Alex McConnachie[88] 101000
MF Johnny Parlane[89] 313100
MF James Miller[90] 34033010
MF James Stewart[91] 27226210
FW James Brannan[92] 16416400
FW Duffy[93] 101000
FW John Fairlie[94] 818100
FW Johnny Haddow 3521342110
FW Angus Kerr[95] 505000
FW William Kirk[96] 18118100
FW Archibald McLardie 909000
FW William Molloy 3618351711
FW Willie Parlane 18917910
FW Norman Shaw[97] 27526510
FW Smith[98] 101000
FW Robert Speedie[99] 828200
FW Benjamin Swanson[100] 15714710
FW Trialists 606000

Source:[101]

Transfers

In addition John Bradford, John Jackson and Alex McIssac all played their last games in Dumbarton 'colours'.

Source:[102]

References
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