Scottish Football League

C Division & Supplementary League, dates results & final tables 1954-55

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Scottish League ‘C’ Division – 1954-55

South & West

Airdrieonians ‘A’

Ayr United ‘A’

Clyde ‘A’

Dumbarton

Kilmarnock ‘A’

Motherwell ‘A’

Partick Thistle ‘A’

Queen of the South ‘A’

Queen’s Park Strollers

Rangers ‘A’

St. Mirren ‘A’

Stranraer

Third Lanark ‘A’

Airdrieonians ‘A’

X

Apr 2 3-1

Apr 13 2-3

Nov 13 3-3

May 2 2-4

Dec 4 2-5

Mar 19 5-2

Feb 12 4-4

Jan 8 2-3

Dec 18 5-2

Apr 20 2-6

Apr 25 4-4

Ayr United ‘A’

Dec 11 0-1

X

Jan 1 1-1

Mar 12 1-1

Dec 4 3-0

Feb 12 0-3

Mar 19 3-4

Feb 26 4-2

Jan 8 1-1

Apr 16 3-2

Apr 30 1-3

Jan 22 2-3

Apr 9 1-0

Clyde ‘A’

Dec 25 3-0

Apr 28 2-1

X

Mar 19 4-1

Nov 13 5-0

Jan 29 3-2

Apr 2 2-5

Mar 12 6-0

Feb 26 3-1

Apr 30 0-0

Apr 22 1-2

Apr 16 1-0

Dec 4 4-2

Dumbarton

Mar 5 7-1

Nov 20 5-0

Nov 27 4-1

X

Feb 12 2-1

Nov 6 3-0

Apr 30 2-8

Apr 16 4-1

Feb 19 2-1

Jan 1 1-1

Mar 26 1-1

Jan 8 1-3

Feb 5 2-1

Kilmarnock ‘A’

Jan 15 6-2

Mar 26 1-4

Apr 20 1-0

Apr 23 4-0

X

Nov 20 4-2

Feb 5 5-0

Dec 18 2-2

Nov 6 3-2

Apr 16 0-1

Apr 2 3-1

Dec 25 6-1

Motherwell ‘A’

Feb 5 10-4

Apr 23 5-0

Apr 29

Dec 18 1-2

Mar 12 3-3

X

Nov 13 0-0

Jan 8 3-2

Jan 1 1-3

Apr 25 1-1

Apr 2 0-3

Dec 4 3-1

Apr 13 0-1

Partick Thistle ‘A’

Mar 26 10-2

Dec 11 2-0

Apr 9 1-4

Jan 8 5-1

Mar 5 6-1

X

Mar 12 2-1

Apr 21 0-2

Nov 6 4-2

May 2 5-0

Apr 23 4-0

Queen of the South ‘A’

Nov 27 5-5

Nov 6 1-1

Nov 20 2-3

Jan 29 1-3

Oct 30 1-1

Jan 15 1-6

X

Mar 26 1-3

Dec 25 0-3

Apr 9 5-1

Dec 11 5-2

Queen’s Park Strollers

Apr 23 0-1

Apr 25 2-2

Dec 25 4-3

Apr 9 2-0

Apr 20 0-2

Nov 20 0-1

Nov 13 1-3

X

Dec 11 0-2

Jan 29 1-2

Mar 19 3-2

Oct 2 1-3

Rangers ‘A’

Jan 29 6-1

Feb 19 2-0

Apr 27 3-0

Apr 28 2-1

Dec 18 1-0

Dec 4 5-3

Apr 2 0-1

X

Nov 20 1-0

Mar 19 0-1

St. Mirren ‘A’

Apr 9 2-2

Aug 28 5-1

Feb 12 2-1

Dec 4 2-2

Mar 19 4-2

Dec 11 3-2

Feb 26 1-3

Feb 19 0-2

Mar 12 2-3

X

Jan 1 2-2

Nov 13 5-1

Stranraer

Jan 29 7-1

Dec 25 1-3

Nov 6 2-1

3-3

Dec 11 3-2

May 4 2-2

Feb 12 1-3

Nov 27 7-3

Mar 5 3-4

Apr 27 2-3

X

Third Lanark ‘A’

Nov 6 6-2

Dec 18 1-2

Jan 8 2-6

Apr 18 1-2

Apr 29

Apr 30 0-6

Apr 16 4-3

Apr 21 0-3

May 2 6-1

Nov 27 1-6

Mar 5 2-3

Mar 12 3-0

X

Notes:

No results for Saturday Mar 26, Apr 2, Apr 9 and Apr 16 from the Sunday Mail – check Sunday Post or other source.

Queen’s Park Strollers 5 Third Lanark ‘A’ 2 on Oct 16 – was this a league game as both Supplementary League games played?

There were gaps in the Daily Record from end of March until Thursday 21^st April.

Final standings

		P	W	L	D	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13	Partick Thistle ‘A’ Rangers ‘A’ St. Mirren ‘A’ Dumbarton Clyde ‘A’ Motherwell ‘A’ Kilmarnock ‘A’ Stranraer Queen of the South ‘A’ Ayr United ‘A’ Queen’s Park Strollers Third Lanark ‘A’ Airdrieonians ‘A’	24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24	18 16 14 12 12 10 9 8 7 7 6 7 5	4 4 6 6 9 10 11 12 13 13 14 15 14	2 4 4 6 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 5	89 53 57 58 53 56 53 54 49 37 36 43 58	36 26 39 46 39 45 49 59 71 58 57 70 101	38 36 32 30 27 24 22 20 18 18 16 16 15

Standings up to and including Apr 2

		P	W	L	D	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13	Partick Thistle ‘A’ Rangers ‘A’ Dumbarton ‘A’ St. Mirren ‘A’ Clyde ‘A’ Kilmarnock ‘A’ Stranraer Ayr United ‘A’ Queen’s Park Strollers Motherwell ‘A’ Airdrieonians ‘A’ Queen of the South ‘A’ Third Lanark ‘A’	16 16 18 18 16 17 17 18 17 15 18 18 14	14 12 9 9 9 7 7 5 5 5 4 4 4	1 3 3 6 6 8 8 9 9 8 11 12 10	1 1 6 3 1 2 2 4 3 2 3 2 0	61 42 46 43 44 45 43 29 29 34 45 35 27	20 21 29 33 28 42 41 41 38 39 82 62 45	29 25 24 21 19 16 16 14 13 12 11 10 8

North and East

Aberdeen ‘A’

Berwick Rangers

Celtic ‘A’

Dundee ‘A’

Dunfermline Athletic ‘A’

East Fife ‘A’

East Stirlingshire

Falkirk ‘A’

Heart of Midlothian ‘A’

Hibernian ‘A,

Montrose

Raith Rovers ‘A’

Stirling Albion ‘A’

Aberdeen ‘A’

X

Dec 11 8-0

Jan 29 7-1

May 7 2-0

Dec 4 5-0

Jan 15 5-0

Nov 13 5-2

Apr 18 7-0

Mar 12 4-1

Apr 9 1-2

Dec 25 4-1

Apr 30 3-2

2-1

Berwick Rangers

Apr 2 1-7

X

Apr 20 2-4

Jan 29 3-5

Jan 1 3-1

Apr 23 0-1

Mar 19 3-1

Nov 13 3-1

Dec 18 3-5

Jan 15 0-2

Nov 20 3-1

Dec 25 4-2

Apr 30 1-2

Celtic ‘A’

Nov 27 2-3

Jan 8 0-0

X

Apr 9 1-0

Nov 20 2-3

Mar 25 1-2

Apr 11 3-1

Feb 12 2-0

Nov 6 1-0

Dec 11 2-1

Apr 22 1-1

Dec 31 0-0

May 7 1-0

Dundee ‘A’

Nov 20 0-4

Nov 27 2-1

Dec 18 2-1

X

Feb 12 4-2

Mar 5 2-2

Apr 30 4-2

May 2 1-1

Apr 2 1-1

Apr 23 2-1

Mar 26 2-1

Jan 8 7-0

Nov 6 5-5

Dunfermline Athletic ‘A’

Apr 16 3-1

Mar 26 3-1

Dec 25 2-3

X

Apr 20 0-0

Dec 11 5-3

Apr 9 2-4

Nov 27 1-4

Jan 29 2-3

Apr 23 0-5

May 2 0-3

East Fife ‘A’

Feb 12 0-5

May 7 1-1

Dec 4 0-0

Nov 13 6-5

Apr 25 3-0

X

Jan 8 2-2

Apr 30 2-0

Jan 1 1-2

Mar 19 1-2

Dec 18 1-3

Nov 20 2-3

Apr 2 1-1

East Stirlingshire

Mar 26 4-2

Nov 6 1-0

Jan 1 5-5

Apr 27 2-6

Apr 2 6-4

Mar 12 3-1

X

Apr 25 4-3

Mar 5 5-4

Dec 25 0-2

Jan 29 2-2

May 7 4-2

Nov 27 3-2

Falkirk ‘A’

Dec 18 0-3

Mar 5 2-1

Apr 27 0-1

Dec 25 3-4

Apr 20 3-1

X

Feb 19 4-1

Mar 26 0-2

Nov 27 3-2

Apr 2 1-2

Mar 12 1-0

Heart of Midlothian ‘A’

Apr 27 0-3

Apr 9 1-0

Apr 25 1-1

Apr 20 4-1

Apr 16 2-3

Jan 29 2-1

May 2 5-1

Nov 20 3-3

X

Nov 13 2-1

Dec 25 5-0

Hibernian ‘A’

Nov 6 0-3

Apr 18 2-0

Apr 2 2-0

Mar 12 2-2

Jan 8 1-1

Nov 27 3-2

Feb 12 4-2

Apr 29

X

Feb 19 4-1

Mar 5 2-0

Dec 18 3-1

Montrose

Apr 20 0-6

Mar 12 1-4

Apr 16 4-2

Dec 11 4-0

Nov 13 1-0

Nov 6 3-0

Jan 1 3-3

Jan 8 3-5

Jan 22 1-0

Oct 2 5-3

X

Feb 12 3-2

Feb 5 6-1

Raith Rovers ‘A’

May 2 0-6

Feb 5 3-1

Mar 12 5-2

Apr 16 5-2

Nov 6 2-0

Feb 19 1-1

Apr 9 4-1

Dec 11 3-2

Apr 27 2-3

X

Jan 29 5-0

Stirling Albion ‘A’

Jan 8 2-1

Apr 13 5-1

Nov 13 4-1

Mar 19 1-2

Apr 27 1-2

Dec 11 3-1

Apr 16 3-2

Feb 26 2-0

Feb 12 3-0

Nov 20 4-1

Apr 9 3-2

Apr 20 1-1

X

Notes:

Dunfermline Athletic ‘A’ played two games on the same day – Apr 16 v Aberdeen ‘A’ (h) and Heart of Midlothian ‘A’(a)

Celtic ‘A’ noted as playing two games on Jan 1 – v Raith Rovers ‘A’ (h) and East Stirlingshire (a)

Final standings

		P	W	L	D	F	A	Pts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13	Aberdeen ‘A’ Hibernian ‘A’ Dundee ‘A’ Heart of Midlothian ‘A’ Stirling Albion ‘A’ Raith Rovers ‘A’ Celtic ‘A’ Montrose Falkirk ‘A’ East Stirlingshire Dunfermline Ath. ‘A’ East Fife ‘A’ Berwick Rangers	24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 24	20 14 11 11 11 10 9 10 9 8 8 5 6	4 6 8 9 9 9 9 12 12 12 14 12 16	0 4 5 4 4 5 6 2 3 4 2 7 2	97 45 59 50 48 50 36 53 43 58 43 32 36	22 33 55 42 47 47 44 60 52 75 61 51 61	40 32 27 26 26 25 24 22 21 20 18 17 14

Standings up to and including Apr 2

		P	W	L	D	F	A	Pts
1	Aberdeen ‘A’	16	14	2	0	69	15	28
2	Hibernian ‘A’	19	11	4	4	38	27	26
3	Dundee ‘A’	16	8	4	4	43	38	20
4	Montrose	18	8	8	2	42	40	18
5	Raith Rovers ‘A’	14	7	5	2	30	28	16
6	East Stirlingshire	15	6	5	4	42	44	16
7	Heart of Midlothian ‘A’	15	7	6	2	33	30	16
8	Stirling Albion ‘A’	16	6	8	2	30	38	14
9	Falkirk ‘A’	16	6	8	2	29	33	14
10	Berwick Rangers	17	6	10	1	31	43	13
11	Celtic ‘A’	14	4	8	2	18	31	10
12	Dunfermline Ath. ‘A’	14	4	9	1	26	38	9
13	East Fife ‘A’	19	2	12	5	26	50	9

Supplementary League – 1954-55

Section A (South and West);

	Airdrieonians ‘A’	Ayr United ‘A’	Kilmarnock ‘A’	Motherwell ‘A’	Queen of the South ‘A’	Stranraer
Airdrieonians ‘A’	X	Sep 4 2-4	Oct 9 4-4	Aug 25 0-1		Sep 1 7-1
Ayr United ‘A’	Aug 21 2-3	X	Sep 11 2-4	Sep 1 2-2	Oct 9 1-1	Sep 25 1-3
Kilmarnock ‘A’	Sep 18 5-2	Oct 30 3-2	X	Aug 28 1-4	Sep 8 4-2	Aug 25 5-4
Motherwell ‘A’	Oct 23 3-4		Aug 14 9-1	X	Sep 25 1-1	Sep 11 4-0
Queen of the South ‘A’	Oct 2 0-1	Sep 18 1-1	Aug 21 2-1	Oct 16 2-3	X	Aug 14 3-2
Stranraer	Oct 30 6-0	Oct 16 2-2	Aug 18 3-3	Sep 18 1-1	Aug 28 3-3	X

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Motherwell ‘A’ Kilmarnock ‘A’ Airdrieonians ‘A’ Queen of the South ‘A’ Stranraer Ayr United ‘A’	9 10 9 9 10 9	5 5 4 2 2 1	3 2 1 4 4 4	1 3 4 3 4 4	28 31 23 15 25 17	12 34 26 17 29 21	13 12 9 8 8 6

Section B (South and West):

	Clyde ‘A’	Dumbarton	Partick Thistle ‘A’	Queen’s Park Strollers	Rangers ‘A’	St. Mirren ‘A’	Third Lanark ‘A’
Clyde ‘A’	X	Sep 1 2-2	Aug 14 1-3	Oct 30 1-0	Aug 21 2-3	Oct 16 1-1
Dumbarton	Sep 1 0-2	X	Oct 2 2-0	Aug 25 2-1	Aug 18 2-3	2-4	Aug 28 1-0
Partick Thistle ‘A’	Aug 28 6-2	Apr 25 1-1	X	Aug 21 4-2	Sep 25 3-4	Oct 23 2-1	Aug 23 4-3
Queen’s Park Strollers	Aug 18 1-4	Sep 8 0-1		X	Aug 28 0-2	Sep 18 0-0	Oct 2 1-3
Rangers ‘A’	May 7 2-2	May 2 2-0	Oct 16 0-4	Aug 14 4-0	X	May 5 3-1	Sep 18 4-0
St. Mirren ‘A’	Sep 25 5-1	Aug 21 3-0	Sep 22	Oct 9 3-3	Sep 11 1-3	X	Aug 17 3-0
Third Lanark ‘A’	Sep 11 3-1	Aug 14 1-0	Sep 1 0-1	Sep 25 5-3	Oct 9 2-3	Sep 15 1-4	X

Notes:

Stranraer 2 Third Lanark ‘A’ 1 on Sep 4, was this a Division C League game?

Queen’s Park Strollers 5 Third Lanark ‘A’ 2 on Oct 16 – was this a league game as both Supplementary League games played?

St. Mirren ‘A’ v Partick Thistle ‘A’ on Sep 22.

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Rangers ‘A’ Partick Thistle ‘A’ St Mirren ‘A’ Dumbarton Clyde ‘A’ Third Lanark ‘A’ Queen’s Park Strollers	12 11 11 12 11 11 11	10 7 5 4 3 4 0	1 1 3 2 3 0 2	1 3 3 6 5 7 9	33 28 26 13 19 18 11	17 16 16 19 26 25 29	21 15 13 10 9 8 2

Section A (North and East):

	Aberdeen ‘A’	Dundee ‘A’	Dunfermline Athletic	East Fife ‘A’	Montrose	Raith Rovers ‘A’
Aberdeen ‘A’	X	Oct 16 1-1	Sep 15 4-0	Sep 18 5-4	Oct 30 2-3	Aug 28 1-0
Dundee ‘A’	Sep 25 2-5	X	Oct 9 2-2	Aug 14 4-3	Sep 8 5-1	Oct 23 3-1
Dunfermline Athletic ‘A’	Sep 4 2-4	Sep 18 2-4	X	Oct 2 1-2	Aug 14 2-5	Oct 30 3-4
East Fife ‘A’	Oct 23 0-5	Aug 28 2-3	Apr 18 2-0	X	Sep 11 2-3	Oct 9 2-1
Montrose	Apr 25 3-4	Aug 21 1-3	Aug 28 0-0	Sep 25 3-2	X	Sep 4 2-1
Raith Rovers ‘A’	Aug 14 1-0	Apr 25 1-1	Oct 16 4-0	Aug 21 0-0	Sep 18 6-2	X

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Aberdeen ‘A’ Dundee ‘A’ Montrose Raith Rovers ‘A’ East Fife ‘A’ Dunfermline Athletic ‘A’	10 10 10 10 10 10	7 6 5 4 3 0	1 3 1 2 1 2	2 1 4 4 6 8	31 28 23 19 19 12	16 19 27 14 25 31	15 15 11 10 7 2

Section B (North and East):

	Berwick Rangers	Celtic ‘A’	East Stirlingshire	Falkirk ‘A’	Heart of Midlothian ‘A’	Hibernian ‘A,	Stirling Albion ‘A’
Berwick Rangers	X	Aug 21 1-4	Sep 4 7-1	Aug 25 4-3	Sep 1 1-4	Apr 11 1-3	Oct 30 6-1
Celtic ‘A’	Aug 18 2-2	X	Sep 11 0-2	Oct 9 0-3	Sep 25 1-2	Aug 28 3-0	Oct 23 4-0
East Stirlingshire	Oct 2 3-1	Aug 14 1-6	X	Oct 16 5-3	Aug 25 1-6	Aug 21 2-1	Sep 18 1-4
Falkirk ‘A’	Sep 18 3-0	Oct 2 2-2	Sep 1 1-3	X	Aug 14 6-3	Oct 30 3-2	Sep 22 4-1
Heart of Midlothian ‘A’	Aug 28 6-1	Sep 17 2-0	Oct 30 5-1	Aug 18 2-1	X	2-1	Oct 16 2-0
Hibernian ‘A’	Aug 14 1-2	Sep 1 2-3	Sep 25 3-1	Sep 8 4-0	Sep 11 1-0	X	Apr 20 2-1
Stirling Albion ‘A’	Sep 11 2-2	Aug 25 1-3	Aug 28 7-1	Sep 25 3-1	Sep 4 1-2	Aug 17 0-3	X

Notes:

Stirling Albion ‘A’ played two games on Apr 20 – v Hibernian ‘A’(h) in Supplementary League, v Raith Rovers ‘A’(h) in Division C.

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
Heart of Midlothian ‘A’ Celtic ‘A’ Hibernian ‘A’ Falkirk ‘A’ Berwick Rangers East Stirlingshire Stirling Albion ‘A’	12 12 12 12 12 12 12	10 6 6 5 4 5 3	0 2 0 1 2 0 1	2 4 6 6 6 7 10	36 28 22 30 28 22 21	14 18 18 29 33 44 31	20 14 12 11 10 10 7

Results researched and compiled by Stuart Robertson

Other missing details were supplied by Tony Brown, Forrest Robertson, David Ross, John Treleven and Thomas McGouran