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1914–15 Dundee Hibernian F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ48799415 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1914–15 Dundee Hibernian F.C. season was the sixth edition of Dundee Hibernian F.C. annual football played in Scottish Football League Second Division, from 1 July 1914 to 30 June 1915.

Match results

Dundee Hibernian played a total of 26 matches during the 1914–15 season and ranked 11th.

Legend

All results are written with Dundee Hibernian's score first.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1914–15 Dundee Hibernian F.C. season” is season of football team. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dundee, Hibernian and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1915—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Dundee, Hibernian and season is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48799415. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1914 and 1915.

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This entry incorporates text from “1914–15 Dundee Hibernian F.C. season” 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.