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1915–16 Scottish Football League

football league season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ2950125 ↗
Source-derived summary

Statistics of the Scottish Football League in season 1915–16. The competition was won by Celtic by eleven points over nearest rival Rangers.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1915–16 Scottish Football League” as football league season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Scottish, Football and League.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1915—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Scottish, Football and League providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1915–16 Scottish Football League”, the useful work is to connect “football league season” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2950125. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1915.

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This entry incorporates text from “1915–16 Scottish Football League” 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.