Manager William Irvine Scottish Cup First Round | Scottish League B Division 9th Scottish League Cup Prelims | |
Stadium Boghead Park, Dumbarton Top goalscorer League: Jim Finnie (10)
All: Jim Finnie (10) | ||
Season 1950–51 was the 74th Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 45th time, the Scottish Cup for the 56th time and the Scottish League Cup for the 5th time.
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Overview
The league campaign looked to be following those of recent years, with the first win registered after 8 attempts, however a late burst of 5 wins in the final 6 games saw Dumbarton finish in a creditable 9th place (out of 16) with 29 points, 16 behind champions Queen of the South.
The Scottish Cup saw Dumbarton exit early to St Johnstone in the first round.
In the League Cup, qualification from the sectional games still proved a problem, finishing 4th and last, with a win and two draws being taken from their 6 games.
In the Stirlingshire Cup, Stirling Albion overcame Dumbarton in the semi final after two draws, but in a short-lived revival of the Stirlingshire Consolation Cup (a competition for those clubs eliminated early in the previous season's Stirlingshire Cup) Dumbarton finished as runners-up, again to Stirling Albion.
Note that William Irvine replaced William Guthrie as team manager at the beginning of the season.
Results
All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.
Appearances
Dumbarton used 27 players for the 37 League, Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup matches, as detailed below. George Paton and Jimmy Whyte were both to feature in all of these matches.
Reserve Team
For the second successive season, Dumbarton played a reserve team in Division C (South West) and finished 15th out of 16, recording 7 wins and 4 draws from 30 matches. Note that in addition to the reserve sides of the bigger Division A teams in South and West Scotland, the first teams of East Stirlingshire (relegated from Division B two seasons previously) and Stranraer also competed in this league.
In the Second XI Cup, Dumbarton lost in the first round to Hamilton.
Finally in the Reserve League Cup, with only a single win from 6 sectional matches, Dumbarton failed to qualify for the knock-out stages.