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1914–15 City Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ117421666 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1914–15 City Cup was the 21st edition of the City Cup, a cup competition in Irish football.

The tournament was won by Glentoran for the 6th time and 2nd consecutive year. One match between Cliftonville and Bohemians was unplayed.

Editorial summary

“1914–15 City Cup” enters the record as football tournament season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what City, football and tournament can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around City, football and tournament.
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“1914–15 City Cup” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, City, football and tournament provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q117421666. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1914.

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This entry incorporates text from “1914–15 City Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.