title: 1929–30 Dumbarton F.C. season
text: # 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.
  
  ## Scottish 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.
  
  ## Scottish Cup
  
  Dumbarton were knocked out in the first round by Cowdenbeath.
  
  ## Dumbartonshire Cup
  
  For the first time since 1923, Dumbarton won the Dumbartonshire Cup, beating Clydebank in the final.
  
  ## Player statistics
  
  | No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Second Division | Second Division | Scottish Cup | Scottish Cup |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
  | | GK | SCO | Alex Fraser | 24 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
  | | GK | SCO | Archibald McNish | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | | GK | SCO | John Thomson | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | | DF | SCO | Jim Kelso | 38 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
  | | DF | SCO | William Livingstone | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | | DF | SCO | Daniel Muir | 36 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
  | | MF | SCO | David Beattie | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | | MF | SCO | William Hyslop | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | | MF | SCO | Stewart Lennie | 38 | 3 | 37 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
  | | MF | SCO | Alex McConnachie | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | | MF | SCO | Johnny Parlane | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
  | | MF | SCO | James Miller | 34 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
  | | MF | SCO | James Stewart | 27 | 2 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | James Brannan | 16 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | Duffy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | John Fairlie | 8 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | Johnny Haddow | 35 | 21 | 34 | 21 | 1 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | Angus Kerr | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | William Kirk | 18 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | Archibald McLardie | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | | FW | ENG | William Molloy | 36 | 18 | 35 | 17 | 1 | 1 |
  | | FW | SCO | Willie Parlane | 18 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | Norman Shaw | 27 | 5 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | Smith | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | Robert Speedie | 8 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | Benjamin Swanson | 15 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
  | | FW | SCO | Trialists | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  
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  ### Transfers
  
  In addition John Jackson and Alex McIssac all played their last games in Dumbarton 'colours'.
  
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