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1914–15 Rangers F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ4559976 ↗
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The 1914–15 season was the 41st season of competitive football by Rangers.

Overview

Rangers played a total of 44 competitive matches during the 1914–15 season. They finished third in the Scottish League Division One after winning 23 of the 38 league matches and collecting a total of 50 points (15 behind league winners Celtic).

The Scottish Cup was not competed for this season as the Scottish Football Association had withdrawn the tournament due to the outbreak of the First World War.

Results

All results are written with Rangers' score first.

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The public source identifies “1914–15 Rangers F.C. season” as season of football team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rangers, season and football.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rangers, season and football providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1914–15 Rangers 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.