1902–03 Dundee F.C. season

Dundee 1902–03 football season

Dundee

1902–03 season

Manager

William Wallace

Stadium

Dens Park

Division One

2nd

Scottish Cup

Semi-finals

Top goalscorer

League: Alan Bell &
Bill White (6)
All: Bill White (9)

Home colours

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The 1902–03 season was the 10th season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One. In what would be their best season to date, Dundee finished in the league in 2nd place, finishing 6 points behind champions Hibernian. Dundee would also compete in the Scottish Cup, where they would progress to the semi-finals before losing in a replay to Hearts.^[1] This would be the first season where Dundee would wear dark blue uniforms as their definitive home colours, with their kit for the season being described as "dark blue semmets and pants, the latter being relieved with a nice red stripe down the side".^[2]

Scottish Division One

Statistics provided by Dee Archive

Match Day	Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Dundee Scorer(s)	Attendance
1	16 August	Queen's Park	H	2–0	White, Bell	8,000
2	23 August	Heart of Midlothian	A	2–0	MacFarlane, Turnbull	10,000
3	30 August	Kilmarnock	H	2–0	Turnbull, Bell	10,000
4	6 September	Partick Thistle	A	2–0	MacFarlane, Bell	7,000
5	13 September	Port Glasgow Athletic	H	2–1	MacFarlane, Bell	8,000
6	20 September	St Mirren	H	2–1	McDiarmid, Bell	13,000
7	27 September	Hibernian	A	0–1		18,000
8	4 October	Third Lanark	H	0–0		14,000
9	11 October	St Mirren	A	0–1		11,500
10	18 October	Heart of Midlothian	H	0–1		12,800
11	25 October	Hibernian	H	0–3		15,000
12	1 November	Port Glasgow Athletic	A	0–0
13	15 November	Greenock Morton	H	3–0	Bell, Gilligan, White	12,000
14	22 November	Greenock Morton	A	2–0	McDiarmid, T. Robertson	400
15	29 November	Celtic	A	2–2	MacFarlane, White	1,000
16	6 December	Rangers	H	3–1	McDiarmid, White (2)	12,000
17	13 December	Kilmarnock	A	2–0	Gilligan, White	3,000
18	20 December	Queen's Park	A	0–0		10,000
19	27 December	Partick Thistle	H	3–0	Dickson (3)	6,000
20	17 January	Rangers	A	1–1	Dickson	10,000
21	21 March	Celtic	H	2–0	Sharp, MacFarlane	9,000
22	4 April	Third Lanark	A	1–0	Gilligan

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Hibernian	22	16	5	1	48	18	+30	37
2	Dundee	22	13	5	4	31	12	+19	31
3	Rangers	22	12	5	5	56	24	+32	29
4	Heart of Midlothian	22	11	6	5	46	27	+19	28
5	Celtic	22	8	10	4	36	30	+6	26

Source: nozdrul.plus.com

Scottish Cup

Statistics provided by Dee Archive

Match Day	Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Dundee Scorer(s)	Attendance
1st round	24 January	Barholm Rovers	H	w/o
2nd round	31 January	Nithsdale Wanderers	H	7–0	White (3), Dickson (3), T. Robertson	7,000
Quarter-finals	7 February	Hibernian	A	0–0		15,000
QF replay	14 February	Hibernian	H	0–0		24,000
QF 2nd replay	21 February	Hibernian	N	1–0	Bell	36,000
Semi-finals	28 February	Heart of Midlothian	H	0–0		22,000
SF replay	7 March	Heart of Midlothian	A	0–1		32,000

Player statistics

Statistics provided by Dee Archive

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		First Division		Scottish Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
	FW	SCO	Alan Bell	27	7	21	6	6	1
	DF	SCO	Vice Bonthrone	1	0	1	0	0	0
	DF	SCO	Dickie Boyle	21	0	16	0	5	0
	DF	SCO	Johnny Darroch	28	0	22	0	6	0
	FW	SCO	Jimmy Dickson	8	7	3	4	5	3
	FW	SCO	Sam Gilligan	9	3	8	3	1	0
	MF	SCO	Dave Gowans	4	0	4	0	0	0
	MF	SCO	Alick Halkett	4	0	2	0	2	0
	MF	SCO	George Henderson	12	0	12	0	0	0
	MF	SCO	Jimmy Jeffray	1	0	0	0	1	0
	FW	SCO	Joe Kerr	1	0	1	0	0	0
	FW	SCO	Sandy MacFarlane	28	5	22	5	6	0
	FW	SCO	Fred McDiarmid	26	3	22	3	4	0
	GK	SCO	Willie Muir	28	0	22	0	6	0
	MF	SCO	Peter Robertson	25	0	19	0	6	0
	FW	SCO	Tommy Robertson	19	2	13	1	6	1
	DF	SCO	Jimmy Sharp	28	1	22	1	6	0
	FW	SCO	Jimmy Turnbull	12	2	12	2	0	0
	FW	SCO	Bill White	26	9	20	6	6	3

References

^ "Match results". deearchive.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2020-07-22. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
^ "Dundee - Historical Kits". historicalkits.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2007-03-15. Retrieved 24 November 2020.

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Domestic leagues	Football League Division One Division Two Highland League
Domestic cups	Scottish Cup (Final) Junior Cup
Related to national team	Results British Home Championship
Club seasons
Division One	Celtic Dundee Heart of Midlothian Hibernian Kilmarnock Morton Partick Thistle Port Glasgow Athletic Queen's Park Rangers St. Mirren Third Lanark
Division Two	Abercorn Airdrieonians Arthurlie Ayr Clyde East Stirlingshire Falkirk Hamilton Academical Leith Athletic Motherwell Raith Rovers St Bernard's