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1953 Scottish Cup final

final match of the 1952-1953 Scottish Cup

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4567825 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1953 Scottish Cup Final was played on 25 April 1953 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 68th staging of the Scottish Cup. Aberdeen and Rangers contested the match. The match was drawn 1–1 and was replayed four days later. In the rematch Rangers won 1–0 through a Billy Simpson goal in the 42nd minute.

The victory was Rangers' 14th Scottish Cup win.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1953 Scottish Cup final” is final match of the 1952-1953 Scottish Cup. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Scottish, final and match, 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—1953—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Scottish, final and match is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “final match of the 1952-1953 Scottish Cup” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Apr 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4567825. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “1953 Scottish Cup final” 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.