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1937–38 Scottish Division One

39th season of top-tier football league in Scotland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ3952942 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1937–38 Scottish Division One season was won by Celtic by three points over nearest rival Heart of Midlothian. Dundee and Morton finished 19th and 20th respectively and were relegated to the 1938–39 Scottish Division Two.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1937–38 Scottish Division One” as 39th season of top-tier football league in Scotland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 1938—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Scottish, Division and 39th can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 39th season of top-tier football league in Scotland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3952942. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1937 and 1938.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “1937–38 Scottish Division One” 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.