1928–29 Dumbarton F.C. season

The 1928–29 season was the 52nd Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League and the Scottish Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Dumbartonshire Cup.

Dumbarton

1928–1929 season
Manager	Donald Colman
Stadium	Boghead Park, Dumbarton
Scottish League Division Two	14th
Scottish Cup	Third Round
Top goalscorer	League: Johnny Haddow (11) All: Johnny Haddow (12)
Home colours Away colours

Scottish League

With just two wins from their first 11 league games, Dumbarton's hopes for promotion in their seventh successive season in the Second Division was never going to be a real possibility. In the end Dumbarton finished 14th out of 19, with 31 points - 20 behind champions Dundee United.[1]

11 August 1928 League	East Stirling	1-0 [2][3]	Dumbarton	Firs Park
	Docherty  1'			Attendance: 1,500 Referee: W Webb

18 August 1928 League	Dumbarton	4-1 [4][5]	Alloa Athletic	Boghead Park
	Harvie  20' Urquhart  20', 65' Crawford  68'		Ross  44'	Attendance: 2,000 Referee: W Dawson

25 August 1928 League	Forfar Athletic	1-1 [6][7]	Dumbarton	Station Park, Forfar
	Kilgour  15'		Reid  65'	Referee: J Mackay

1 September 1928 League	Dumbarton	3-3 [8][9]	King's Park	Boghead Park
	Crawford  53' (pen) Haddow McLardie  75'		Baird  55' (pen) McGreachan  85' Tonner  88'	Attendance: 2,000 Referee: J Robertson

8 September 1928 League	Stenhousemuir	1-0 [10][11]	Dumbarton	Ochilview Park
	Howie  15'			Referee: H McLachlan

15 September 1928 League	Dumbarton	3-1 [12][13]	Dunfermline Athletic	Boghead Park
	Crawford  10' (pen) Malloy  30' Harvie  32'		Penman  44'	Attendance: 3,000 Referee: J Thomson

22 September 1928 League	Arthurlie	3-3 [14][15]	Dumbarton	Dunterlie Park
	Clark  5' 15'		Malloy Crawford Haddow  87'	Referee: J Hudson

29 September 1928 League	Dumbarton	0-2 [16][17]	Arbroath	Boghead Park
			Farquhar  30' Gibb  33'	Attendance: 2,000 Referee: C McGreachan

6 October 1928 League	Bathgate	2-3 VOID[18]	Dumbarton	Mill Park, Bathgate
	McPherson  47' Drummond  51'		Reid  1' Kirk  53', 57'	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: J Rowan

13 October 1928 League	Dumbarton	0-3 [19][20]	Bo'ness	Boghead Park
			Haggerty  20', 30' Junior  33'	Attendance: 2,000 Referee: J Thomson

20 October 1928 League	Dumbarton	1-1 [21][22]	Clydebank	Boghead Park
	Crawford

27 October 1928 League	Morton	3-1 [23][24]	Dumbarton	Cappielow Park
	McRorie  15', 53' McCartney		Orr  89'	Attendance: 7,000 Referee: J Prior

3 November 1928 League	Dumbarton	4-2 [25][26]	Queen of the South	Boghead Park
	Crawford  43' Reid  47' Orr  57' Haddow		Lauderdale Mackie  85'	Referee: H McLachlan

10 November 1928 League	Leith Athletic	3-0 [27][28]	Dumbarton	Marine Gardens
	Marshall  5' Johnston Rae			Referee: J Mackay

17 November 1928 League	Dumbarton	1-0 [29][30]	Albion Rovers	Boghead Park
	Crawford  25'			Referee: J Baillie

24 November 1928 League	Dumbarton	5-2 [31][32]	Armadale	Boghead Park
	Haddow  22' (pen) McIssac  47', 54', 60'		Laird  5' Heigh  69'	Referee: A Stewart

1 December 1928 League	Dundee United	3-1 [33][34]	Dumbarton	Tannadice Park
	Hutchison  15', 20' Henderson  45' (pen)		McIssac  21'	Attendance: 6,000 Referee: J Rowan

8 December 1928 League	Dumbarton	2-1 [35][36]	St Bernard's	Boghead Park
	McIssac  20' Gillies  46'		Eadie  35'	Attendance: 1,500 Referee: D Reilly

15 December 1928 League	East Fife	6-3 [37][38]	Dumbarton	Bayview Park, Methil
	McGaughy  1' Brown Nairn  80' Weir  15' Kyle		McIssac Gillies	Referee: W Webb

22 December 1928 League	Alloa Athletic	0-2 [39][40]	Dumbarton	Recreation Park, Alloa
			Haddow  30' McIssac	Attendance: 1,500 Referee: A McLean

31 December 1928 League	Clydebank	1-6 [41][42]	Dumbarton	Clydeholm Park
	Thomson		Kirk Reid Crawford Haddow  85'	Attendance: 3,000 Referee: D Reilly

2 January 1929 League	Dumbarton	1-0 [43][44]	Morton	Boghead Park
	Kirk  41'

5 January 1929 League	Dumbarton	0-0 [45][46]	Forfar Athletic	Boghead Park
				Attendance: 2,000 Referee: W Webb

12 January 1929 League	King's Park	1-1 [47][48]	Dumbarton	Forthbank Park
			Kirk	Referee: A Stewart

26 January 1929 League	Dumbarton	0-1 [49][50]	Stenhousemuir	Boghead Park
			Kemp  43'	Referee: J Robertson

9 February 1929 League	Dumbarton	2-0 [51][52]	Arthurlie	Boghead Park
	Malloy Haddow			Referee: H McLachlan

20 February 1929 League	Arbroath	7-1 [53][54]	Dumbarton	Gayfield Park
	Gibb  16', 20', 47', 84' Gentles  18' Gallacher  57', 90'		Haddow	Attendance: 1,200 Referee: J Leggatt

23 February 1929 League	Dumbarton	3-0 VOID[55]	Bathgate	Boghead Park
	Kirk  10', 33', 80'			Referee: W Jamieson

2 March 1929 League	Bo'ness	6-0 [56][57]	Dumbarton	Newtown Park, Bo'ness
	Ross  30' Harvie  (OG) Hutcheson  57' Fleming  58', 70'			Attendance: 1,500 Referee: J Black

9 March 1929 League	Queen of the South	3-0 [58][59]	Dumbarton	Palmerston Park
	McKenna  20' Derby  47' Wright  (pen)			Referee: W Holborn

16 March 1929 League	Dumbarton	1-4 [60][61]	Leith Athletic	Boghead Park
	Miller  (pen)		Johnston Laidlaw

23 March 1929 League	Albion Rovers	6-4 [62][63]	Dumbarton	Cliftonhill
	Brant  52', 54' Weir  67' Rae  84'		Crawford  4' Haddow  7'<vr>Malloy  25' Kirk  85'	Attendance: 2,000 Referee: R Seith

30 March 1929 League	Armadale	1-1 [64][65]	Dumbarton	Volunteer Park, Armadale
	Young  41'		Miller  63'	Referee: W Jamieson

1 April 1929 League	Dunfermline Athletic	3-2 [66][67]	Dumbarton	East End Park
	Dickson,T Syme Daid		King  (OG) Craig

6 April 1929 League	Dumbarton	1-1 [68][69]	Dundee United	Boghead Park
	Urquhart  42'		Kay  44'	Attendance: 1,000

8 April 1929 League	Dumbarton	3-2 [70][71]	East Stirling	Boghead Park
	Urquhart  20' (pen) Kirk		Campbell Junior  48'	Referee: W Dobson

20 April 1929 League	St Bernard's	3-0 [72][73]	Dumbarton	Royal Gymnasium Ground
	Eadie  47' Walker  70'			Referee: J Leggatt

27 April 1929 League	Dumbarton	2-2 [74][75]	East Fife	Boghead Park
	Speedie  75' Crawford  83'		Weir  12', 16' (pen)	Referee: J Smith

Scottish Cup

Dumbarton reached the third round before losing out to Raith Rovers.

19 January 1929 Cup R1	Dumbarton	6–1[76][77]	Inverness Citadel	Boghead Park
	Orr Harvie  65' McLardie Kirk Malloy		Cumming	Attendance: 2,000 Referee: J Leggatt

2 February 1929 Cup R2	Fraserburgh	0–3[78][79]	Dumbarton	Bellslea Park
			Malloy  60', 80', 89'	Attendance: 1,500 Referee: J Russell

16 February 1929 Cup R3	Raith Rovers	3–2[80][81]	Dumbarton	Starks Park
	Galloway  12' McBain  37' Brunton  45'		Haddow  35' Malloy	Attendance: 5,000 Referee: R Innes

Dumbartonshire Cup

Dumbarton were runners-up in the Dumbartonshire Cup for the fifth season running, again losing out to Clydebank in the final.

24 April 1929 Final	Clydebank	1-0	Dumbarton	Clydeholm Park
	Chalmers			Attendance: 1,000 Referee: W Holborn

Player statistics

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Second Division		Scottish Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	GK		Blackstock[82]	4	0	4	0	0	0
	GK		Jock Bradford[83]	35	0	32	0	3	0
	GK		Albert Ferguson	1	0	1	0	0	0
	DF		William Gibson	1	0	1	0	0	0
	DF		Daniel Muir	38	0	35	0	3	0
	DF		Robert Orr[84]	33	3	30	2	3	1
	DF		Robert Shaw[85]	5	0	5	0	0	0
	MF		Craig[86]	3	1	3	1	0	0
	MF		Cunningham[87]	1	0	1	0	0	0
	MF		John Harvie[88]	35	4	32	2	3	2
	MF		James Miller	38	2	35	2	3	0
	MF		Neish[89]	3	0	3	0	0	0
	MF		Hugh Reid[90]	17	4	17	4	0	0
	FW		James Crawford[91]	35	10	32	10	3	0
	FW		Archibald Gillies[92]	35	2	33	2	2	0
	FW		Johnny Haddow	37	12	34	11	3	1
	FW		John Jackson[93]	1	0	1	0	0	0
	FW		William Kirk[94]	28	6	25	5	3	1
	FW		William Molloy	20	9	17	4	3	5
	FW		Alex McIsaac[95]	13	8	12	8	1	0
	FW		Archibald McLardie	37	2	34	1	3	1
	FW		Robert Speedie[96]	1	1	1	1	0	0
	FW		Angus Urquhart[97]	8	5	8	5	0	0

Source:[98]

Transfers

Players in Player From Date John Jackson Renton Juveniles 1 May 1928 Johnny Haddow Rangers 22 May 1928 Robert Orr Crystal Palace 6 Sep 1928 William Molloy Celtic 7 Sep 1928 Alex McIssac 24 Nov 1928 Benjamin Swanson Rothesay Royal Victoria 17 Jan 1929 Robert Speedie 25 Apr 1929

Players out Player To Date James Reid Freed 20 May 1928 James Warden Freed 20 May 1928

In addition Andrew Hamill, James Laing, Thomas Lamont, Andrew Mair, William Murray, John Pearson and John Russell all played their last games in Dumbarton 'colours'.

Source:[99]

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