1952–53 NHL season, Player statistics, Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, PTS = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes


1952–53 NHL season, Player statistics, Leading goaltenders
Note: GP = Games played; Min – Minutes Played; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts


1952–53 NHL season, Debuts
The following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1952–53 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):


1952–53 NHL season, Last games
The following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1952–53 (listed with their last team):


1952–53 National Football League (Ireland)
The 1952–53 National Football League was the 22nd staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.


1952–53 National Football League (Ireland)
Dublin defeated Cavan in the final, wearing St Vincents' white and blue shirts — not just to prevent a colour clash, but because fourteen of their team were Vincents' men (the exception being goalkeeper Tony O'Grady of the Air Corps club).


1952–53 National Football League (Ireland), Format
Teams are placed into Divisions I, II, III and IV. The top team in each division reach the semi-final.


1952–53 National Football League (Ireland), Results, Division III
Mayo, Kerry and  Galway were tied at the top, so had a playoff round which Kerry won. Clare and Cork were at the bottom.


1952–53 National Hurling League
The 1952–53 National Hurling League was the 22nd season of the National Hurling League.


1952–53 National Hurling League, Division 1
Tipperary came into the season as defending champions of the 1951-52 season.


1952–53 National Hurling League, Division 1
On 19 April 1953, Cork won the title after a 2-10 to 2-7 win over Tipperary in the final. It was their 6th league title overall and their first since 1947-48.


1952–53 Nationalliga A, Overview
It was contested by 14 teams, and FC Basel won the championship for the first time in the club's history.


1952–53 Nationalliga A season
The 1952–53 Nationalliga A season was the 15th season of the Nationalliga A, the top level of ice hockey in Switzerland. Eight teams participated in the league, and EHC Arosa won the championship.


1952–53 Netherlands Football League Championship
The Netherlands Football League Championship 1952–1953 was contested by 56 teams participating in four divisions. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of each division of the Netherlands. RCH won this year's championship by beating FC Eindhoven, Sparta Rotterdam and Vitesse Arnhem.


1952–53 New York Knicks season
The 1952–53 New York Knicks season was the seventh season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). With a 47–23 record, the Knicks won the regular season Eastern Division title by a half-game over the Syracuse Nationals and made the NBA Playoffs for the seventh consecutive year.


1952–53 New York Knicks season
In the first round of the 1953 NBA Playoffs, the Knicks swept the Baltimore Bullets 2–0 in a best-of-three series to advance to the Eastern Division Finals. There, New York defeated the Boston Celtics 3–1 to make the NBA Finals for the third straight year. In the Finals, the Knicks lost to the Minneapolis Lakers, four games to one.


1952–53 New York Knicks season, NBA draft
Note: This is not an extensive list; it only covers the first and second rounds, and any other players picked by the franchise that played at least one game in the league.


1952–53 New York Rangers season
The 1952–53 New York Rangers season was the 27th season for the team in the National Hockey League (NHL). During the regular season, the Rangers compiled a 17–37–16 record and finished with 50 points. The Rangers' last-place finish caused them to miss the NHL playoffs.


1952–53 New York Rangers season, Playoffs
The Rangers finished in last place in the NHL and failed to qualify for the 1953 Stanley Cup playoffs.


1952–53 New York Rangers season, Player statistics
†Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only. ‡Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.


1952–53 Newport County A.F.C. season
The 1952–53 season was Newport County's sixth consecutive season in the Third Division South since relegation from the Second Division at the end of the 1946–47 season. It was the club's 24th season in the third tier and 25th season overall in the Football League.


1952–53 Northern Football League
The 1952–53 Northern Football League season was the 55th in the history of the Northern Football League, a football competition in Northern England.


1952–53 Northern Football League, Clubs
The league featured 13 clubs which competed in the last season, along with one new club:


1952–53 Northern Rugby Football League season
The 1952–53 Rugby Football League season was the 58th season of rugby league football.


1952–53 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
St. Helens won their second Rugby Football League Championship when they beat Halifax 24-14 in the play-off final. They also ended the regular season as league leaders.


1952–53 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
The Challenge Cup Winners were Huddersfield who beat St. Helens 15-10 in the final.


1952–53 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary
St. Helens won the Lancashire League, and Halifax won the Yorkshire League. Leigh beat St. Helens 22–5 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Huddersfield beat Batley 18–8 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.


1952–53 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup
A club record 69,429 people watch the Challenge Cup 3rd Round tie at Odsal between Bradford Northern and Huddersfield. Larger crowds had watched matches at Odsal, but this was the largest involving the home side.


1952–53 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup
In the Final, Huddersfield beat St. Helens 15-10 at Wembley in front of a crowd of 89,588. This produced a record gate taking for a Challenge Cup final of £31,000.


1952–53 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup
This was Huddersfield’s sixth Cup Final win in seven Final appearances, including one win during the Second World War. Peter Ramsden, their stand-off half, became the youngest player to win the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match at 19. the Huddersfield team also featured Australian Pat Devery and New Zealand's Peter Henderson.


1952–53 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season
The 1952–53 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season was the 14th season of ice hockey in Norway. Eight teams participated in the league, and Gamlebyen won the championship.


1952–53 Norwegian Main League
The 1952–1953 Hovedserien was the 9th completed season of top division football in Norway.


1952–53 Norwegian Main League, Overview
16 teams competed. Larvik Turn & IF won the championship, their first league title.


1952–53 OB I bajnoksag season
The 1952–53 OB I bajnokság season was the 16th season of the OB I bajnokság, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Nine teams participated in the league, and Postas Budapest won the championship.


1952–53 Oberliga
The 1952–53 Oberliga  was the eighth season of the Oberliga, the first tier of the football league system in West Germany and the Saar Protectorate. The league operated in five regional divisions, Berlin, North, South, Southwest and West. The five league champions and the runners-up from the south, north and west then entered the 1953 German football championship which was won by 1. FC Kaiserslautern. It was 1. FC Kaiserslautern's second national championship, having previously won it in 1951.


1952–53 Oberliga
1. FC Köln set a new Oberliga start record in 1952–53, winning its first eleven games, a mark later equaled by Hannover 96 in 1953–54 and Hamburger SV in 1961–62 but never surpassed.


1952–53 Oberliga
A similar-named league, the DDR-Oberliga, existed in East Germany, set at the first tier of the East German football league system. The 1952–53 DDR-Oberliga was won by Dynamo Dresden.


1952–53 Oberliga, Oberliga Nord
The 1952–53 season saw three new clubs in the league, FC Altona 93, Harburger TB and VfB Lübeck, all promoted from the Amateurliga. The league's top scorer was Günter Schlegel of Göttingen 05 with 26 goals.


1952–53 Oberliga, Oberliga Berlin
The 1952–53 season saw two new clubs in the league, BFC Südring and SC Südwest Berlin, both promoted from the Amateurliga Berlin. The league's top scorer was Alfred Herrmann of Minerva 93 Berlin with 17 goals.


1952–53 Oberliga, Oberliga West
The 1952–53 season saw two new clubs in the league, SV Sodingen and Borussia München-Gladbach, both promoted from the 2. Oberliga West. The league's top scorer was Hans Schäfer of 1. FC Köln with 26 goals.


1952–53 Oberliga, Oberliga Südwest
The 1952–53 season saw four new clubs in the league, BFV Hassia Bingen, FV Speyer and VfR Kirn, all promoted from the 2. Oberliga Südwest while Saar 05 Saarbrücken was promoted from the Amateurliga Saarland. The league's top scorer was Fritz Walter of 1. FC Kaiserslautern with 38 goals, the highest total for the five Oberligas in 1952–53.


1952–53 Oberliga, Oberliga Süd
The 1952–53 season saw two new clubs in the league, TSG Ulm 1846 and BC Augsburg, both promoted from the 2. Oberliga Süd. The league's top scorer was Horst Schade of SpVgg Fürth with 22 goals.


1952–53 Oberliga, German championship
The 1953 German football championship was contested by the eight qualified Oberliga teams and won by 1. FC Kaiserslautern, defeating VfB Stuttgart in the final. The eight clubs played a home-and-away round of matches in two groups of four. The two group winners then advanced to the final.


1952–53 Oberliga (ice hockey) season
The 1952-53 Oberliga season was the fifth season of the Oberliga, the top level of ice hockey in Germany. Eight teams participated in the league, and EV Füssen won the championship.


1952–53 Panhellenic Championship
The 1952–53 Panhellenic Championship was the 17th season of the highest football league of Greece. It was the last season in which the title of champion was to be claimed by the winning clubs from the three main football associations representing the major urban centers (Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki). It was also the last in which the final phase was held with the presence of only three teams, the champions of the above associations.


1952–53 Panhellenic Championship
The championship was won by Panathinaikos, in a mediocre final as it developed into a final phase, where in 6 games a total of only 8 goals were scored by the three teams, all from different players, with the result that there was no top scorer for the event. The point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.


1952–53 Philadelphia Warriors season
The 1952–53 NBA season was the Warriors' 7th season in the NBA.


1952–53 Polska Liga Hokejowa season
The 1952–53 Polska Liga Hokejowa season was the 18th season of the Polska Liga Hokejowa, the top level of ice hockey in Poland. 12 teams participated in the league, and Legia Warszawa won the championship.


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season
The 1952–53 season was Port Vale's 41st season of football in the English Football League, and their first season (fourth overall) back in the Third Division North, following their switch from the Third Division South. Using an incredibly settled squad (only nineteen players were used all season), manager Freddie Steele led the Vale to a second-place finish, just a single point from the promotion spot. Built upon an 'iron curtain defence', just 35 goals were conceded in 46 league games. All this was achieved with pretty much the same bottom-placed team that Steele inherited in December 1951.


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season
Following from 9 February the previous season until 8 September the club racked up a club record streak of twelve consecutive home wins.


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division North
The pre-season saw the club switched from the Third Division South to the Third Division North, very much against the wishes of the directors, who believed a loss of income would follow. Manager Freddie Steele decided against making any new signings, and instead kept faith with the young team he had inherited the previous season. Offers were made for some of the young prospects, but none were accepted.


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division North
The season began with a 1–0 defeat at Valley Parade with a goal from Ray King's brother George, managed by Steele's predecessor Ivor Powell. This did not affect the team's spirits, as they went straight on to a seven match unbeaten run, conceding just three goals. Steele picked up an injury and so selected the versatile Basil Hayward to replace him. A shrewd move, Hayward would go on to become the club's top scorer. It took awhile to pay off however, as Vale went five games scoring just one goal.


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division North
Steele attempted to sign a new forward, but to no avail. A 1–0 home defeat to wooden spoon contenders Accrington Stanley exemplified the club's trouble in front of goal, and also ended their record-breaking run of twelve consecutive home wins. Steele and trainer Ken Fish put the squad to work on the special fitness regime they devised, as the "Valiants" marched onwards.


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division North
Travelling to Boundary Park on 15 November, they beat Oldham Athletic 1–0, taking themselves up into third place. They dropped points during the Christmas period, though picked up a useful 4–1 win at Gresty Road on Boxing day. Three points out of a possible eight in February allowed leaders Oldham to pull away from the chasing Vale. In March Oldham and Grimsby Town struggled, and so Vale took advantage with six points from ten, conceding just three goals.


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division North
With six of the final nine games at home, and all of the chasing pack yet to visit Burslem, the omens seemed good for promotion. Vale duly remained unbeaten until the season's end, however drawing five of these games proved not enough. The 4 April encounter with Oldham proved to be the title decider, Vale had dominated the game but conceded a fatal equalizing goal on 86 minutes. Two draws against strugglers Chester were also costly. Nevertheless, they finished strongly, hammering Grimsby Town 4–0, Reg Potts scoring with a lob from 35 yards out.


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division North
They finished second, a single point away from top spot. Steele's emphasis on teamwork had turned the team around, and earned the club its best finish since their relegation from the second tier in 1935–36. Their defensive record of 35 goals conceded was bettered only by Second Division Huddersfield Town. Their tally of 58 points was second only to the club's extraordinary 1929–30 campaign. Their main weakness was an average offence, though Hayward proved to be a revelation with 22 goals.


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division North
On 4 May, Vale played Potteries derby rivals Stoke City, who had just been relegated from the First Division. This Coronation Cup match ended in a 2–0 win for Stoke, with £1,053 raised for charity.


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances
On the financial side, a £1,676 profit was recorded. This was due to a club record average attendance of 14,504 – which took gate receipts to £39,929 – and a £5,000 slash in the wage bill to £18,246. For once the club did not sell its best players, and yet it also made a profit. Steele was rewarded with a three-year contract. He again kept on almost all of the squad, with two exceptions being Jimmy Todd (Wellington Town) and Norman Hallam (Halifax Town).


1952–53 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions
In the FA Cup, Third Division South Exeter City were beaten 2–1. However, in the Second Round league leaders Oldham Athletic won 3–0 in front of a season best 25,398 crowd at Vale Park – 8,000 of them Oldham supporters.


1952–53 Primeira Divisão, Overview
It was contested by 14 teams, and Sporting Clube de Portugal won the championship.


1952–53 Rangers F.C. season
The 1952–53 season was the 73rd season of competitive football by Rangers.


1952–53 Rangers F.C. season, Overview
Rangers played a total of 46 competitive matches during the 1952–53 season.


1952–53 Ranji Trophy
The 1952–53 Ranji Trophy was the 19th season of the Ranji Trophy. Holkar won the title defeating Bengal in the final.


1952–53 Ranji Trophy, Zonal Matches, South Zone
(T) - Advanced to next round by spin of coin.


1952–53 Real Madrid CF season
The 1952–53 season was Real Madrid Club de Fútbol's 50th season in existence and the club's 21st consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish football.


1952–53 Real Madrid CF season, Summary
During Summer Juan Antonio Ipiña took the job as new coach. The squad reached a decent third place on League table three points below Champions FC Barcelona. Striker Pahiño chose to not renew his contract and left the club towards Deportivo La Coruña on 1 August 1953. under pressure President Santiago Bernabéu reached and agreement with Joseíto and the forward chose to remain another season.


1952–53 Real Madrid CF season, Summary
During June, the squad reached 1953 Copa del Generalísimo semi-finals being defeated after two matches by Atletico Bilbao with a global score of 3–4.


1952–53 Real Madrid CF season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1952–53 Rheinlandliga
The 1952–53 Rheinlandliga was the first season of the highest amateur class of the Rhineland Football Association under the name of 1. Amateurliga Rheinland. It replaced the multi-tracked Landesliga Rheinland as the highest amateur class and was a predecessor of today's Rheinlandliga.


1952–53 Rheinlandliga
The 1. Amateurliga was below II. Division Southwest until 1963 and therefore the third-class in the hierarchy. In the seasons 1956-57 to 1962-63 the league was played in two divisions (East and West). The two division champions played to determine the Rhineland champion. With the introduction of the regional league Southwest as second highest class, starting in the 1963-64 season, the Amateur league Rheinland was again combined into one division.


1952–53 Rheinlandliga
Beginning in the 1974-75 season, the league played a role as a sub-team to the newly introduced 2. Bundesliga, where the Rhineland champion played in a relegation against the champion of the Verbandsliga Südwest and the Saarlandliga, for a position in the south divisions of the 2. Bundesliga. Starting from the 1978-79 season, the Oberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar was introduced as the highest amateur class and this class was renamed to the "Verbandsliga Rheinland" and since then only fourth class.


1952–53 Rheinlandliga, Results
Rhineland champion was SpVgg Bendorf. In the relegation rounds to move up to the 2. league Southwest, Bensdorf finished in last place had to remain in the league. FC Urbar participated as a Rhineland representative in the German Soccer Amateur Championship in 1953, but did not go beyond the group stage.


1952–53 Rheinlandliga, Results
SV Remagen, TuS Mayen, SV Trier-West and SG Betzdorf had to move down into the 2. Amateur League after this season. For the following season, 1953–54, Grün-Weiß Vallendar, SV Wittlich, TuS Montabaur and VfL Brohl moved up from the 2. Amateur league


1952–53 Rheinlandliga, Results
Germania Mudersbach switched to the Landesliga Westfalen after that season.


1952–53 Rochdale A.F.C. season
The 1952–53 season saw Rochdale compete for their 25th season in the Football League Third Division North.


1952–53 Rochester Royals season
The 1952–53 NBA season was the Royals fifth season in the NBA.


1952–53 Romanian Hockey League season
The 1952–53 Romanian Hockey League season was the 23rd season of the Romanian Hockey League. Six teams participated in the league, and CCA Bucuresti won the championship.


1952–53 Rugby Union County Championship
The 1952–53 Rugby Union County Championship was the 53rd edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time.


1952–53 Rugby Union County Championship
Yorkshire won the competition for the tenth time (but the first since 1928) after defeating East Midlands in the final.


1952–53 SK Rapid Wien season
The 1952–53 SK Rapid Wien season was the 55th season in club history.


1952–53 SM-sarja season
The 1952–53 SM-sarja season was the 22nd season of the SM-sarja, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 12 teams participated in the league, and TBK Tampere won the championship.


1952–53 Scottish Cup
The 1952–53 Scottish Cup was the 68th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Rangers who defeated Aberdeen in the replayed final.


1952–53 Scottish Districts season
The 1952–53 Scottish Districts season is a record of all the  rugby union matches for Scotland's district teams.


1952–53 Scottish Districts season
It includes the Inter-City fixture between Glasgow District and Edinburgh District.


1952–53 Scottish Districts season, History
From the Inter-City match, it is noted that W. L. K. Cowie, Mackenzie, Blackwood improved their selection chances for the national team; and G. Culver also played well.


1952–53 Scottish Division A
The 1952–53 Scottish Division A was won by Rangers on goal average over nearest rival Hibernian. Motherwell and Third Lanark finished 15th and 16th respectively and were relegated to the 1953–54 Scottish Division B.


1952–53 Scottish Division A
Rangers won the title with a 1–1 draw on the last day of the season, away to Queen of the South. Rangers equalised with 17 minutes to go and thereby won the league on goal average from Hibernian, preventing the Edinburgh club from winning a third successive title.


1952–53 Scottish Division B
The 1952–53 Scottish Division B was won by Stirling Albion who, along with second placed Hamilton Academical, were promoted to the Division A. Albion Rovers finished bottom.


1952–53 Scottish League Cup
The 1952–53 Scottish League Cup was the seventh season of Scotland's second football knockout competition. The competition was won Dundee for a second successive season, who defeated Kilmarnock in the Final.


1952–53 Scottish National League season
The 1952-53 Scottish National League season was the 15th and penultimate season of the Scottish National League, the top level of ice hockey in Scotland at the time. Eight teams participated in the league, and the Falkirk Lions won the championship.


1952–53 Segunda División
The 1952–53 Segunda División season was the 22nd since its establishment and was played between 13 September 1952 and 3 May 1953.


1952–53 Segunda División, Overview before the season
32 teams joined the league, including two relegated from the 1951–52 La Liga and 6 promoted from the 1951–52 Tercera División.


1952–53 Serie A (ice hockey) season
The 1952–53 Serie A season was the 20th season of the Serie A, the top level of ice hockey in Italy. Six teams participated in the league, and HC Diavoli Rossoneri Milano won the championship.


1952–53 Serie B
The Serie B 1952–53 was the twenty-first tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.


1952–53 Serie B, Teams
Cagliari had been promoted from Serie C, while Lucchese, Padova and Legnano had been relegated from Serie A.


1952–53 Serie C
The 1952–53 Serie C was the fifteenth edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system.


1952–53 Serie C
The tournament was organized in a single table for the first time.


1952–53 Serie C, Events
The league was organized into a single division of 18 teams.


1952–53 Serie C, Events
No team had been promoted from lower divisions in 1951–52 season.


1952–53 Serie C, Events
Each team played a total of 34 matches (17 at home, 17 away). The 2–1–0 point system was used for the classification.


1952–53 Serie C, Events
At the end of the 34th round, teams at the first two positions of the classification were promoted in Serie B for the 1953–54 season. On the contrary, teams which finished their league at the last four places were relegated in IV Serie.


1952–53 Sheffield Shield season
The 1952–53 Sheffield Shield season was the 51st season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. South Australia won the championship.


1952–53 Southern Football League
The 1952–53 Southern Football League season was the 50th in the history of the league, an English football competition.


1952–53 Southern Football League
No new clubs had joined the league for this season so the league consisted of 22 clubs from previous season. Headington United were champions for the first time in their history. Five Southern League clubs applied to join the Football League at the end of the season, but none were successful.


1952–53 Southern Football League, Football League elections
Five Southern League clubs applied for election to the Football League. However, none were successful as all four League clubs were re-elected.


1952–53 Soviet Cup (ice hockey)
The 1952–53 Soviet Cup was the third edition of the Soviet Cup ice hockey tournament. 25 teams participated in the tournament, which was won by Dynamo Moscow.


1952–53 Soviet League season
The 1952–53 Soviet Championship League season was the seventh season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Seventeen teams participated in the league, and VVS MVO Moscow won the championship.


1952–53 Spartan League
The 1952–53 Spartan League season was the 35th in the history of Spartan League. The league consisted of 16 clubs.


1952–53 Spartan League, League table, Premier Division
The division featured 16 clubs, including four that were new to the division:


1952–53 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team
The 1952–1953 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team represented St. Francis College during the 1952–53 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Daniel Lynch, who was in his fifth year at the helm of the St. Francis Terriers. The team was a member of the Metropolitan New York Conference and played their home games at the Bulter Street Gymnasium in their Cobble Hill, Brooklyn campus and at the II Corps Artillery Armory in Park Slope, Brooklyn.


1952–53 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team
The Terriers, while not nationally ranked during the season, received votes from Associated Press balloting.


1952–53 Stoke City F.C. season
The 1952–53 season was Stoke City's 46th season in the Football League and the 32nd in the First Division.


1952–53 Stoke City F.C. season
The summer of 1952 again brought drama as long serving manager Bob McGrory resigned after spending 31 years with the club as player and manager. In his place came former Scarborough manager and Wolverhampton Wanderers defender Frank Taylor. However despite a change in leadership the team continued to struggle and were again involved in a relegation battle. The season went to the final day and Stoke went into their match against Derby County knowing they had to win to stay up, a 2–1 defeat saw Stoke's stay in the First Division come to a disappointing end.


1952–53 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League
During the summer of 1952 Bob McGrory resigned after spending 31 years at the Victoria Ground as player and manager and Frank Taylor took over as first team manager. Taylor was a 'new breed' of tracksuit manager and was regarded as potential great manager by the Stoke board. The first act Taylor did was to erect a sign above the players dressing room which read:  Are you 90 minutes fit? It's the last 20 minutes that count–train for it.


1952–53 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League
The 1952–53 season was obviously going to be a transitional one with the defence and forward lines in need of strengthening. A new goalkeeper was brought in, Bill Robertson coming up from Birmingham City for £8,000. The season did not start well and after one win the first five matches Taylor moved quickly to bring in Ken Thomson to the club a fine centre back from Aberdeen whilst allowing George Mountford to join Queens Park Rangers. Taylor also started to move on some of McGrory's signings but the talent from the youth team which had served Stoke for so long had now dried up.


1952–53 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League
Prior to the lead up to 1953 Stoke had agonisingly slipped into the relegation zone, but seven games without defeat at the turn of the year they seemed to have averted the danger. But then it all went wrong again and they slipped back down the table and in the end they had to win their final match of the season against an already relegated Derby County at the Victoria Ground. Most expected Stoke to step it up and beat a dejected Derby side but disaster struck as Jack Lee scored for the "Rams" early on.


1952–53 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League
Stoke hit back through Frank Bowyer but Jackie Stamps but Derby 2–1 up. Stoke created plenty of chances and with just minutes left were awarded a penalty but the reliable Ken Thomson hit his kick straight at Ray Middleton and with it ended Stoke's 20 year stay in the First Division.


1952–53 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup
A miserable season was not helped any by a shock 1–0 defeat to Third Division North side Halifax Town in the fourth round.


1952–53 Sussex County Football League
The 1952–53 Sussex County Football League season was the 28th in the history of the competition.


1952–53 Sussex County Football League
The league increased to two Divisions, Division 1 and Division 2. Division 1 featured thirteen of last seasons teams with Whitehawk & Manor Farm Old Boys joining the league. Division 2 featured twelve teams from which the winners would be promoted into Division 1.


1952–53 Sussex County Football League, Division One
The division featured 14 clubs, 13 which competed in the last season, along with one new club:


1952–53 Swedish Division I season
The 1952–53 Swedish Division I season was the ninth season of Swedish Division I ice hockey. Sodertalje SK defeated Hammarby IF in the league final, 1 game to none, 1 tie.


1952–53 Swedish football Division 2
Statistics of Swedish football Division 2 for the 1952–53 season.


1952–53 Swedish football Division 2, League standings, Division 2 Nordöstra 1952–53
Teams from a large part of northern Sweden, approximately above the province of Medelpad, were not allowed to play in the national league system until the 1953–54 season, and a championship was instead played to decide the best team in Norrland.


1952–53 Swedish football Division 3
Statistics of Swedish football Division 3 for the 1952–53 season.


1952–53 Syracuse Nationals season
The 1952–53 NBA season was the Nationals' 4th season in the NBA.


1952–53 Tercera División
The 1952–53 Tercera División season was the 17th since its establishment.


1952–53 Toronto Maple Leafs season
The 1952–53 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 36th season in the National Hockey League (NHL).


1952–53 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team
The 1952–53 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1952–53 NCAA men's basketball season and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. The Bruins were led by fifth year head coach John Wooden. They finished the regular season with a record of 16–8 and finished 3rd in the PCC Southern Division with a record of 8–4.


1952–53 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Previous season
The Bruins finished the regular season with a record of 19–12 and won the southern division championship with a record of 8–4. They defeated the Washington Huskies in the conference play-offs and lost to Santa Clara in the NCAA regional semifinals and Oklahoma City in the regional consolation game.


1952–53 United States network television schedule
The following is the 1952–53 network television schedule for the four major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1952 through March 1953. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1951–52 season.


1952–53 United States network television schedule
According to television historians Castleman and Podrazik (1982), the fall of 1953 marked a change in television when the networks began filling their schedules with "grade B" material. The networks' "need to fill so many hours of broadcasting each day put the networks and local programmers into the same position that Hollywood had been in years before with its theatrical features." In between big-budget productions, the networks had to keep the public occupied. As the number of hours that the four TV networks offered programs continued to expand, "the appearance of TV equivalents to grade-B films was almost inevitable."


1952–53 United States network television schedule
Castleman and Podrazik also point out that another change was taking place around this time. Filmed television series had been seen since the late 1940s, but were "not considered very important to the networks' schedules" because many were of poor quality; live productions from New York were the norm at this time. CBS's success with filmed program I Love Lucy in fall 1951, however, had convinced NBC to add a few filmed series to its fall 1952 schedule. Among NBC's new filmed TV series were My Hero, I Married Joan, and Doc Corkle. The Red Skelton Show, previously airing live, also made the move to film. NBC also moved Skelton's program from its previous late-evening time to 7 p.m. on Sundays, hoping the program would be a "strong lead-in for the entire evening."


1952–53 United States network television schedule
NBC's Sunday night strategy failed, however, because Red Skelton's program suffered from excessive use of rerun episodes when Skelton unfortunately fell ill. Of the network's other filmed series, My Hero was "a weak slapstick vehicle" while Doc Corkle was "generally regarded as the worst sitcom of the new season". It lasted only three weeks before cancellation (replaced by the return of the live Mister Peepers). With the exceptions of I Married Joan and the revival of The Life of Riley starring William Bendix in January, NBC would have little luck with filmed programs during the 1952–53 season.


1952–53 United States network television schedule
ABC had more luck with its new filmed series, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, while CBS aired the filmed Our Miss Brooks. Another successful CBS filmed show was anthology series Four Star Playhouse, which although not a top-rated show, did prove popular enough to run to 1956.


1952–53 United States network television schedule
Fall 1952 was a major blow for DuMont, when the network's biggest  star, Jackie Gleason, moved from DuMont to CBS. Gleason's new CBS series, The Jackie Gleason Show replaced DuMont's Cavalcade of Stars, airing Saturday nights at 8 p.m. Ted Bergmann, DuMont's general director, stated in 2002 that Gleason's much-heralded move to CBS made DuMont look bad. DuMont aired no programs against Gleason's new TV series. One DuMont show, the 60-minute public affairs program New York Times Youth Forum began airing Sundays at 5 p.m. EST on September 14, 1952—outside of prime time—and ran until June 14, 1953.


1952–53 United States network television schedule
A notable DuMont series which aired during the season was dramatic anthology series Dark of Night, which was broadcast live from a different real-life location each week instead of being shot on a soundstage (for example, one episode was broadcast from a soft drink bottling plant, while another was broadcast from a castle in New Jersey).


1952–53 United States network television schedule
Each of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.


1952–53 United States network television schedule, Tuesday
Note: On December 16, 1952, Wisdom of the Ages replaced Quick on the Draw.


1952–53 United States network television schedule, Friday
Notes: The RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day was aired in the first half of 1952 and was hence not a new series in the 1952-1953 season. It moved to Monday at 9 p.m. on NBC in the 1953-1954 season under the new title The Dennis Day Show, starring singer Dennis Day.


1952–53 United States network television schedule, Friday
On Dumont, City Assignment, which ran from February to July 1953, consisted entirely of reruns of episodes of the CBS series Big Town.


1952–53 United States network television schedule, By network, NBC
Note: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.


1952–53 United States network television schedule (daytime)
The 1952–53 daytime network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers most of the weekday daytime hours from September 1952 to August 1953.


1952–53 United States network television schedule (daytime)
Talk shows are highlighted in  yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.


1952–53 WHL season
The 1952–53 WHL season was the first season of the Western Hockey League. The Edmonton Flyers were the President's Cup champions as they beat the Saskatoon Quakers four games to two in the final series.


1952–53 WHL season, Playoffs
The Edmonton Flyers win the President's Cup 4 games to 2.


1952–53 WIHL season
1952–53 was the seventh season of the Western International Hockey League.


1952–53 WIHL season, Semi finals
Spokane Flyers beat Nelson Maple Leafs 3 wins to 2.


1952–53 WIHL season, Semi finals
Trail Smoke Eaters beat Kimberley Dynamiters 3 wins to 2.


1952–53 WIHL season, Final
Spokane Flyers beat Trail Smoke Eaters 3 wins to 1.


1952–53 WIHL season, Final
Spokane Flyers advanced to the 1952-53 British Columbia Senior Playoffs.


1952–53 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
The 1952–53 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington for the 1952–53 NCAA college basketball season. Led by third-year head coach Tippy Dye, the Huskies were members of the Pacific Coast Conference and played their home games on campus at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington.


1952–53 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
The Huskies were 25–2 overall in the regular season and 15–1 in conference play; they won the PCC title series with a two-game sweep of Southern division winner California, and climbed to second in the AP poll.


1952–53 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
In the 22-team NCAA Tournament, Washington won twice in Corvallis, Oregon, over Seattle and Santa Clara, and advanced to the Final Four in Kansas City, Missouri. In the semifinal against defending champion Kansas, the Huskies lost by 26 points in front of a partisan crowd, then defeated LSU by nineteen points in the consolation game to take third place. Indiana won the title by a point.


1952–53 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
The Huskies were led on the floor by All-American center Bob Houbregs and guard Joe Cipriano, later the head coach at Idaho and Nebraska.


1952–53 Washington Huskies men's basketball team
Washington's next NCAA Tournament appearance was 23 years later in 1976; their first National Invitation Tournament (NIT) appearance was in 1980.


1952–53 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team
The 1952–53 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented Washington State College for the 1952–53 college basketball season. Led by 25th-year head coach Jack Friel, the Cougars were members of the Pacific Coast Conference and played their home games on campus at Bohler Gymnasium in Pullman, Washington.


1952–53 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team
The Cougars were 7–27 overall in the regular season and 3–13 in conference play, last in the Northern division.


1952–53 Welsh Cup
The 1952–53 FAW Welsh Cup is the 66th season of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales.


1952–53 Welsh Cup, Fifth round
Eight winners from the Fourth round and ten new clubs.


1952–53 Welsh Cup, Sixth round
Three winners from the Fifth round plus Pwllheli & District. Six clubs get a bye to the Seventh round.


1952–53 Western Football League
The 1952–53 season was the 51st in the history of the Western Football League.


1952–53 Western Football League
The champions for the first time in their history were Barnstaple Town, and the winners of Division Two were Chippenham Town Reserves, although they could not be promoted as the club's first team was already in Division One.


1952–53 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One
Division One was reduced from eighteen members to seventeen after Cheltenham Town Reserves left the league, with two clubs promoted to replace Bristol Rovers Colts and Poole Town who were relegated to Division Two.


1952–53 Western Football League, Final tables, Division One
Only one club was relegated from Division One this season in order to even up the numbers in each division.


1952–53 Western Football League, Final tables, Division Two
Division Two was reduced from nineteen clubs to eighteen after Bideford Town and Bridgwater Town were promoted to Division One, and Chipping Sodbury and Swindon Town Colts left the league. Three new clubs joined:


1952–53 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team
The 1952–53 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team represented Western Kentucky State College during the 1952-53 NCAA University Division Basketball season. The Hilltoppers were led by future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame coach Edgar Diddle and All-American player Tom Marshall. The Hilltoppers won the Ohio Valley Conference tournament and were invited to the 1953 National Invitation Tournament. During this period, the NIT was considered on par with the NCAA Tournament. Art Spoelstra joined Marshall on the All-Conference  and OVC Tournament teams.


1952–53 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team
The 1952–53 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1952–53 NCAA men's basketball season. Under the first year of head coach Boydson Baird, the team finished the season 10–13 and 6–13 in the Southern Conference. This was the 48th season of the collegiate basketball program at William & Mary, whose nickname is now the Tribe. William & Mary played its home games at Blow Gymnasium.


1952–53 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team
The Indians finished in 12th place in the conference and failed to qualify for the Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, the first such occurrence since 1947.


1952–53 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team
The 1952–1953 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin–Madison. The head coach was Harold E. Foster, coaching his nineteenth season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the UW Fieldhouse in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup
The 1952–53 Yorkshire Cup was the forty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup
Huddersfield won the trophy by beating Batley by the score of 18-8


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 15,500 and receipts were £2,471


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup
This was Huddersfield's second appearance in the  Yorkshire Cup final in the  last three years, winning in 1950


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs invited, no new entrants and no club "dropped out", and so the number of entrants remained at the same as last season's total number of sixteen.


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Background
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Background
The  competition again followed the  original formula of a knock-out tournament, with the  exception of the  first round which was still played on a two-legged home and away basis.


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Round 1 - First Leg
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Round 1 - Second Leg
All first round ties are played on a two-legged home and away basis


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Round 2 - Quarter Finals
All second round ties are played on a knock-out basis


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, The road to success
All the ties in the  first round were played on a two leg (home and away) basis.


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, The road to success
For the  first round ties, the first club named in each of the ties played the first leg at home.


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, The road to success
For the  first round ties, the scores shown are the aggregate score over the two legs.


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments
1 * The  attendance is variably given as 15,500 by the official Huddersfield 1953 Yearbook, 15,000 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject   but 14,705 by the  Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92 and 1990-91


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments
2 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was  40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from  the  county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from  outside the  county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden.


1952–53 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar
The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)


1952–53 Yugoslav First League, Teams
Two clubs relegated at the end of the previous season were Rabotnički and Mačva. Teams promoted to the 1952–53 Yugoslav First League were Velež and Spartak.


1952–53 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season
The 1952–53 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season was the 11th season of the Yugoslav Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Yugoslavia. 11 teams participated in the league, and Partizan have won the championship.


1952–53 in Belgian football
The 1952–53 season was the 50th season of competitive football in Belgium. RFC Liégeois won their 5th Division I title. This was the first season since the 1952 reform of the national competitions. A new level of football was introduced at the top of the league system. The divisions were also renamed, with the top level being named Division I (one league of 16 teams), the second level Division II (one league of 16 teams), the 3rd level Division III (2 leagues of 16 teams each) and the lowest level remaining the Promotion (4 leagues of 16 teams each). The Belgium national football team played 6 friendly games (3 wins, 3 losses) and then started their 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign with 2 away wins in Finland and Sweden.


1952–53 in Belgian football, Overview
At the end of the season, RRC de Gand and Beringen FC were relegated to Division II and were replaced in Division I by 2 clubs from Lier: Division II winner K Lyra and runner-up K Lierse SK. The bottom 2 clubs in Division II (FC Renaisien and Stade Louvain) were relegated to Division III, while both Division III winners (K Tubantia FC and R Uccle Sport) qualified for Division II. The bottom club of each Division III league were relegated to Promotion: Helzold FC, K Mol Sport, RAA Louviéroise and Union Halloise, to be replaced by K Sint-Niklaasse SK, RCS La Forestoise, SRU Verviers and K Willebroekse SV.


1952–53 in Belgian football, Final league tables, Premier Division
Top scorer: Henri Coppens (R Beerschot AC) with 35 goals.


1952–53 in English football
The 1952–53 season was the 73rd season of competitive football in England.


1952–53 in English football, Overview
This was the closest championship win in English league history at the time, with Arsenal claiming the title with a goal average superior to Preston's by just 0.099. Both Arsenal and Preston had identical records aside from their goal averages.


1952–53 in English football, Overview
Had goal difference been the deciding factor as it was from 1977 onwards, Arsenal would still have won with +33 to Preston's +25, unlike in 1989 when they would have finished second on goal average. Preston had last been champions in 1890, the second season of the Football League.


1952–53 in English football, Overview
The FA Cup was won by Blackpool, beating Bolton Wanderers 4–3 in what became known as the 'Matthews Final', due to the masterly contribution of 38-year-old winger Stanley Matthews, who helped his side win after going 3–1 down, although three of Blackpool's goals were scored by prolific forward Stan Mortensen.


1952–53 in English football, Honours
Notes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition


1952–53 in English football, National team
The England national football team were joint winners in the 1953 British Home Championship with Scotland. In the May following the conclusion of the season the England team embarked on their first tour of the Americas, following the experience in Brazil of the 1950 FIFA World Cup.


1952–53 in Israeli football
The 1952–53 season was the 5th season of competitive football in Israel and the 27th season under the Israeli Football Association, established in 1928, during the British Mandate.


1952–53 in Israeli football, IFA Competitions
The first part of the season was marred by another dispute between Hapoel and Maccabi factions in the IFA, delaying the beginning of the league and cup competitions. The dispute was settled at the beginning of 1953, allowing the competitions to start at the second part of the season. Due to the delayed start, the competition were not complete until the summer break and were continued in the next season.


1952–53 in Israeli football, National Teams, National team
No official matches were played by the national team during the season. Two matches by the national were played against during November 1952 against a select XI from Athens, Greece, and the matches were billed as Tel Aviv vs. Athens. Tel Aviv won the first match 5–0 and lost the other 1–3.


1952–53 in Scottish football
The 1952–53 season was the 80th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 56th season of the Scottish Football League.


1952–53 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division A
Rangers won the title with a 1–1 draw in their last match, away to Queen of the South. Rangers equalised with 17 minutes to go and thereby won the league on goal average from Hibernian, thus preventing Hibs from winning their third title in a row.


1952–53 in Scottish football, Scotland national team
Scotland and England shared victory in the 1953 British Home Championship.


1952–53 in Swedish football
The 1952–53 season in Swedish football, starting August 1952 and ending July 1953:


1952–54 FDGB-Pokal
The 1952–54 FDGB-Pokal was the third competition for the national cup title in association football in East Germany.


1952–54 FDGB-Pokal
The competition had started with 84 teams from the third-tier Bezirksliga and fourth-tier Bezirksklasse competitions of the 15 Bezirke. After two qualifying rounds the First Round was played with 64 teams on 7 June 1953. These 64 teams were the 21 remaining teams from the qualifying rounds, 26 teams from the second-tier DDR-Liga and 17 teams from the 1952–53 DDR-Oberliga. The matches for the second round were drawn, but not played due to the events around the uprising of 1953 in East Germany, even though officially the summer holidays were given as the reason for an indefinite postponement. In the spring of 1954, the Second Round teams were drawn again, and the competition resumed with the matches on 25 April 1954.


1952–54 FDGB-Pokal
By the Third Round, 13 of the Oberliga teams had been eliminated, but two Bezirksliga sides were still in the competition: BSG Chemie Apolda and Aktivist Welzow. While they were eliminated in this round, three second-tier teams reached the quarterfinals: Empor Wurzen-West, BSG Chemie Zeitz and Vorwärts Berlin. Vorwärts, who just had secured promotion to the Oberliga, and Oberliga side Motor Zwickau eventually reached the final.


1952–54 FDGB-Pokal, First round
Originally 4-0, but as Weißenfels had fielded an ineligible player the result was annulled. Thale filed a protest, because two of their players were away on national team duty. The match was replayed and ended in a 1-3 defeat for Thale again.


1952–54 FDGB-Pokal, Second round
All matches of the second round were postponed, officially due to the summer holidays. The actual reason were the events surrounding the uprising of 1953 in East Germany. The Second Round was redrawn and played in 1954.


1952–55 Nordic Football Championship
The 1952–55 Nordic Football Championship was the sixth tournament staged. Four Nordic countries participated: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Sweden won the tournament, its fourth Nordic Championship win.


1952–55 Nordic Football Championship, Table
'Two points for a victory, one point for a draw, no points for a loss.


1952–95 Tamil Nadu by-elections
Below is a list of By-elections held in Tamil Nadu from 1952-1995.


1952–95 Tamil Nadu by-elections, Lok Sabha, 1993
The by-election took place due to the death of Shri Senapathy.


1952–95 Tamil Nadu by-elections, Lok Sabha, 1985
The by-election took place due to the death of Shri K.T. Kosalram.


1952–95 Tamil Nadu by-elections, Lok Sabha, 1982
The by-election took place due to the death of Shri C.N. Natarajan.


1952–95 Tamil Nadu by-elections, Lok Sabha, 1980
The by-election took place due to the death of Shri Karunanithi Thazhai.


1952–95 Tamil Nadu by-elections, Lok Sabha, 1973
The by-election took place due to the death of Shri M.Rajangam.


1953
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1953rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 953rd  year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd  year of the 20th century, and the  4th   year of the 1950s decade.


1953 (album)
1953 is an indie rock album by the Soul-Junk released in 1996. The album consists of guitar based low-fi rock, which one reviewer described as being in the ballpark of "Beck meets Danielson." Alternative Press found their musical arrangements to be outstanding, "tuneful, energetic and original", but took fault with their lyrics, which many of which are derived from scripture.


1953 (album)
The final track of the album is actually another album itself, 1954, albeit uncut.


1953 10 Hours of Messina
The second 10 Hours of Messina was a sports car race, held on 26 July 1953 in the street circuit of Messina, Italy.


1953 1000km of Nürburgring
The 1953 ADAC 1000 Kilometer-Rennen Nürburgring took place on 30 August, on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, (West Germany). It was also the fifth round of the F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship. This was the first time the event had taken place, although it would not run again until 1956.


1953 1000km of Nürburgring, Report, Entry
A grand total of 66 racing cars were registered for this event, of which 54 arrived for practice and qualifying. Scuderia Ferrari, under the name of Automobili Ferrari, arrived with three  375 MMs for the all-Italian pairings of Giuseppe Farina / Alberto Ascari and Umberto Maglioli / Piero Carini, with the third car for Luigi Villoresi and Mike Hawthorn. Scuderia Lancia entered two D24s, the first driven by Juan Manuel Fangio, who had switched from Alfa Romeo,  and Felice Bonetto, and the second driven by Robert Manzon and Piero Taruffi. . Lancia also entered an older D20 driven by Giovanni Bracco and Eugenio Castellotti. Also from Italy came three works Maserati A6GCSs.


1953 1000km of Nürburgring, Report, Qualifying
The Lancia D24 of  Juan Manuel Fangio took pole position, averaging a speed of 83.714 mph around the 14.167 mile circuit. However, following engine problems, the Ferrari 375 MM of Mike Hawthorn and Luigi Villoresi was withdrawn from the meeting and their engine used by the lead car of Alberto Ascari and Giuseppe Farina. The team's third entry was also withdrawn from the meeting.


1953 1000km of Nürburgring, Report, Race
A lead Lancias fell out of contention by lap 15, but then the factory efforts and the bigger privateers began to run into trouble. Although two of the three works Ferraris were withdrawn prior to the start of the race, Scuderia victory was never seriously threatened despite the first three cars were all being one same lap as the race winners, Ascari / Farina.


1953 1000km of Nürburgring, Report, Race
For the second round running, the Scottish Ecurie Ecosse finished second overall. The pairing of Ian Stewart and Roy Salvadori were over 15 minutes behind the Ferrari, but still won their class by three laps. Almost 30 minutes behind the winner, Adolf Brudes and Franz Eugen Hammernick reached the finish in their Borgward Hansa 1500RS in third place overall. The other works Borgward of Karl Guenther Bechem / Theo Helfrich had taken the car up to third place before retiring with an engine failure. The last two classified finishers were two Gutbrod Superiors with a 700cc two-stroke engine. They were seven laps behind the Ferrari.


1953 1000km of Nürburgring, Report, Race
The winning partnership of Ascari/Farina won in a time of 8hr 20:44.0mins., averaging a speed of 74.694 mph. They covered a distance of 2,281.182 miles. The race did not end when the overall winner crossed the finishing line, but continued for another hour to allow the other classes to try and complete the full 1000 km.


1953 1000km of Nürburgring, Standings after the race
Championship points were awarded for the first six places in each race in the order of 8-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest finishing car with no points awarded for positions filled by additional cars. Only the best 4 results out of the 7 races could be retained by each manufacturer. Points earned but not counted towards the championship totals are listed within brackets in the above table.


1953 12 Hours of Sebring
The 3rd Grand Prix, 12 Hours of Sebring, was the inaugural round of the 1953 World Sportscar Championship and was held at the Sebring International Raceway, on 8 March 1953.


1953 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Entry
A total of 81 cars were entered for the event, across eight classes based on engine sizes, ranging from up to 750cc to over 8.0 litre. Of these 59 cars practised, 54 qualified to race.


1953 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Entry
Amongst the mostly American entrants, the greatest news for the 1953 race was that the famous English Aston Martin team would join the French factory DB’s for the 12 Hour competition. In fact, David Brown and René Bonnet, heads of these European manufacturers, both went to Florida to watch the race. Bonnet also took part in the race.


1953 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race
The race started at noon, and ran until midnight, on a day described as "partly cloudy and mild", in front of an estimated crowd of 12,500 spectators.


1953 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race
The Aston Martins made a great start, leading the first 32 laps of the Florida road course before losing the lead as a result of an accident. The #57 Cunningham C-4R then took over lead and was never headed for the rest of the race.


1953 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race
The car was driven by Phil Walters and John Fitch took the winner spoils for Briggs Cunningham’s team. They were boosted to the lead when the front running Aston Martin of Geoff Duke and Peter Collins collided with a Jaguar, and was forced to retire with accident damage. Walters and Fitch drove their Florida license plated Cunningham C-4R to victory, covering a distance of 908.9 miles, averaging a speed of 75.338mph.


1953 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race
One lap adrift in second place was the Aston Martin DB3 of the Reg Parnell and George Abecassis, despite reportedly being hampered by having one of its headlamps not working due to an earlier collision with a bollard filed with concrete marking the circuit on what was at the time largely an airfield.


1953 12 Hours of Sebring, Report, Race
There was one car fire, the Allard-Cadillac J2X of Paul Ramos was destroyed when a fuel line split, however the driver, Anthony Cumming escaped unharmed. Another competitor, Randy Pearsall, also escaped injury when he flipped his Jaguar XK120.


1953 12 Hours of Sebring, Standings after the race
Championship points were awarded for the first six places in each race in the order of 8-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest finishing car with no points awarded for positions filled by additional cars. Only the best 4 results out of the 7 races could be retained by each manufacturer. Points earned but not counted towards the championship totals are listed within brackets in the above table.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 21st Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 13 and 14 June 1953, at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans (France). It was also the third round of the F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans
British drivers Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton won the race with one of three factory-entered Jaguar C-Types, the first cars ever to race at Le Mans with disc brakes.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations
With the ongoing success of the World Championship of Drivers, this year saw the introduction by the FIA of a World Championship for Sports Cars, creating great interest from the major sports car manufacturers. It also drew together the great endurance races in Europe and North America. The Le Mans race was the third round in the championship after the 12 Hours of Sebring and the Mille Miglia.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations
After the efforts by drivers in the recent races to drive almost single-handedly (Chinetti in 1949, Rosier and Hall in 1950, Levegh and Cunningham in 1952) and the consequent safety danger through exhaustion, the ACO set limits of maximum driving spells of 80 consecutive laps and 18 hours in total for each driver.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations
This year also marked the first use of a radar-‘gun’ to measure speeds across a flying kilometre on the Hunaudières Straight. The results, not surprisingly, aligned with engine size but, significantly, also the impact of aerodynamics on top speed:


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
The prestige of the race, as well as the advent of the new championship generated intense interest in Le Mans. Of the 69 entrants and reserves, nineteen different marques (and their subsidiaries) were present. There were an unprecedented 56 works-entered cars officially represented, with over half in the main S-8000, S-5000 and S-3000 classes. Mercedes-Benz did not return to defend their title – they were busy preparing new cars for both the F1 and Sports Car championships. So the overall victory was shaping up as a contest between Italy (Scuderia Ferrari, S.P.A. Alfa Romeo and Scuderia Lancia), England (Jaguar supported by Aston Martin, Allard and Nash-Healey/Austin-Healey and the United States (Cunningham), with the French (Talbot and Gordini) being the ‘dark horses’.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Drivers included all three F1 World Champions to date (Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Giuseppe Farina) and over 30 other current and up-and-coming Grand Prix racers.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
The Italian teams had built new cars for the season and all had strong driver line-ups. Ferrari entered two lightweight Ferrari 340 MM Berlinettas powered by the company's big 280 bhp 4.1 litre V12 engine built for a challenge at Mille Miglia, All had Pinin Farina-designed bodies. Ascari and Luigi Villoresi were to share another lightweight coupé 375 MM converted to 4.5-litres, while brothers Paolo and Gianni Marzotto (winner of the 2nd round of the championship: the Mille Miglia) and Giuseppe Farina and debutante Mike Hawthorn were down to drive the 340 MMs. A third 340 MM Spyder was entered by American Ferrari agent Luigi Chinetti for himself, with Anglo-American Tom Cole (who had finished 3rd with Allard in 1950) as his co-driver. Such was the quality of the entry list that six other Ferraris could not make the starting list.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Alfa Romeo was back at Le Mans for the first time since the war and fielded the beautiful new 6C/3000CM (‘’Cortemaggiore’’) powered by a 3.5L S6 engine (developing 270 bhp and 245 km/h) for Fangio and Onofre Marimón and Consalvo Sanesi and Piero Carini. The third car was driven by Mercedes-Benz works-drivers Karl Kling and Fritz Riess who also had their team manager, Alfred Neubauer, in the pits with them. Lancia this year stepped up to the big class with three new D.20 Coupés.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Having just won the non-Championship Targa Florio with a 3.0L V6 engine, team manager Vittorio Jano instead decided to install supercharged 2.7L engines. This proved to be a mistake as the small increase in power (to 240 bhp) increased unreliability and gave away over 20 km/h top speed to the rival Jaguars and Ferraris. GP-racers Louis Chiron and Robert Manzon, Piero Taruffi and Umberto Maglioli were in the team, with José Froilán González and endurance-race specialist Clemente Biondetti in the reserve car.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Jaguar returned with their C-Types and after the debacle of the previous year, were determined not to repeat those mistakes, having undertaken a lot of development work. Team manager ‘Lofty’ England employed the same driver pairings as 1952, with Peter Walker and Stirling Moss, Peter Whitehead and Ian Stewart, and Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton. The cars reverted to the aerodynamic design prior to that of the 1952 Le Mans cars, whose revised nose and tail had adversely affected stability at speeds over 120 mph.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
For 1953 the cars were lighter and more powerful (now developing 218 bhp), and they were the first-ever Le Mans cars equipped with disc brakes, from Dunlop, whose greater efficiency gave the C-Types a distinct advantage over their drum-braked competitors. The disc brakes had been available in 1952, but given the problems with the radiators they had been swapped out so the team could concentrate on just one potential issue in the race. The works cars were supported by a standard production-body car entered by the new Belgian Ecurie Francorchamps team.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Aston Martin entered their new DB3S cars for Reg Parnell and Peter Collins, George Abecassis and Roy Salvadori, and Eric Thompson and Dennis Poore. Using the same 3-litre engine as the DB3, it was put into a newly designed, shortened, chassis. However it was suffering from considerable lack of testing, being well down on speed.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Donald Healey this year had two collaborations: his last year with Nash Motors with a pair of long-tailed models, and a new partnership with the Austin Motor Company using its 2.7L engine, producing only 100 bhp but capable of 190 km/h. Bristol also arrived with two cars for Lance Macklin / Graham Whitehead and Jack Fairman / Tommy Wisdom, and managed by former Bentley Boy and Le Mans winner Sammy Davis.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
The rear-engined 450 coupés were ugly and noisy but the 2 litre engine could get them to nearly 230 km/h. Briggs Cunningham also brought three cars, all with 310 bhp 5.5L Chrysler V8 engines: a new C-5R (nicknamed “Le Requin” (the shark) by the French) for Phil Walters and John Fitch who had won the inaugural championship race at Sebring; a C-4R for Cunningham himself and William "Bill" Spear and, a C-4RK coupé for veteran Charley Moran (the first American to race at Le Mans, back in 1929) and Anglo-American John Gordon Bennett.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
This year Talbot entered a full works-team, rather than just providing support to privateer entries. The trio of blue T26 GS cars were driven by Talbot regulars Guy Mairesse (with Georges Grignard), Louis Rosier and Elie Bayol, and Pierre Levegh and Charles Pozzi. Although still very fast, they were starting to show their age to the nimbler cars from Italy and Great Britain. André Chambas also returned with his supercharged modified SS spyder for a 5th and final time. Gordini had intended to debut the new 3.0L T24S, but scratched it because of atrocious handling. Instead an uprated T16 design, the T26S with a 2.5L engine was prepared for Maurice Trintignant and Harry Schell. An older T15S was entered for Behra and Mieres. Though it only had a 2.3L engine it was lighter, and just as quick as its bigger brother.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
Without Mercedes-Benz, German representation fell to works teams from Borgward (here for the first and only time) and Porsche, both in the medium S-1500 class. Porsche stepped up from the S-1100 class with a new, purpose-designed race car, the 550 Coupé and its flat-four 1488cc engine, making only 78 bhp but a top speed of nearly 200 km/h. There were also a pair of the smaller 356 SL in the S-1100 class.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
As expected the French dominated the smaller-engined classes. The most eye-catching were the four from Panhard, bringing cars with their own badge this time under a new competition department, albeit under close collaboration with Monopole: with very aerodynamic designs from French aviation engineer Marcel Riffard using both of the Panhard engines. Other works entries came from Renault, DB and Monopole themselves.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice
In Thursday practice the Jaguars showed their class with all three works cars going under the lap record, but drama also happened when the 3rd car, of Rolt and Hamilton, was disqualified. It had been on track at the same time as another Jaguar which had the same racing number (the spare car being used as a precaution to qualify Norman Dewis, the Jaguar test driver, as a reserve), and a protest raised by the Ferrari team.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice
Jaguar chairman, Sir William Lyon, agreed to pay the ACO fine, and ‘Lofty’ England successfully pleaded his case to the official that no intention to cheat had been meant and it was an honest mistake and so they were reinstated. But Hamilton's account of the affair has become one of the great motor racing legends: Devastated by their disqualification, he & Rolt had gone into the city for the night to drown their sorrows, and when England found them at 10am the next day (race-day) at Gruber's restaurant, they were nursing hangovers and drinking copious amounts of coffee! Unfortunately, such a colourful story is an urban myth: England later said: "Of course I would never have let them race under the influence. I had enough trouble when they were sober!" Tony Rolt also said the story was fiction.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice
The Spanish Pegaso team withdrew both their entries after Juan Jover crashed his Z-102 Spyder during practice. Misjudging the speed of his approach to the corner after the Dunlop bridge, he hit the barriers at over 200 km/h and was thrown from the car, seriously injuring his left leg. With no apparent explanation for the crash, the team decided on safety first and scratched the other car. It was the first and last time they got to Le Mans.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
At 4:00pm on the Saturday, the flag fell and the race was on. As usual, Moss was lightning-quick out of the blocks and led the cars away, but the Allard blasted past him on the Mulsanne straight and was leading the closely bunched field at the end of the first lap. But Sydney Allard’s early lead barely lasted, and by lap four he had to retire with a collapsed rear suspension that severed a brake pipe.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
The first few laps at Le Mans means very little and it was not until after 30 minutes that the true nature of the race became apparent. Rolt had already put in a lap record at 96.48 mph, while Moss led the way, closely followed by Villoresi, Cole, Rolt, Fitch, with Karl Kling rounding out the top six. But Moss was also soon in trouble. Although he had smoothly pulled away from the chasing pack, a misfire had set in after only 20 laps, in the second hour.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
The unscheduled pitstop to change spark plugs, plus another later for the eventual fix – removal of a clogged fuel filter – dropped the car well down to 21st. At least Jaguar had remembered the pit regulations: A Ferrari mechanic topped up the brake system on Mike Hawthorn’s 340 MM before the specified 28 laps had been completed, thereby Hawthorn/Farina were disqualified. Whilst all this was going on, Villoresi had taken the lead.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start
By 5pm, at the end of the first hour, the order had settled down and it became clear that the Jaguars, Ferraris and Alfa Romeos were the teams to be reckoned with. The Lancias and Talbots were quite outclassed, as were the medium-engined Aston Martins. The race continued at a fantastic pace and now it was Jaguar setting it: passing Villoresi, Rolt lifted his lap times by 5 seconds to push his lead. Then Consalvo Sanesi, in his Alfa Romeo 6C, continued to lower the lap record. Just before 6:00pm, Fangio retired with engine troubles in his Alfa Romeo. At the three-hour mark, Rolt/Hamilton led from Ascari/Villoresi, followed by Cole and his co-driver Luigi Chinetti, Sanesi/Carini, and the Germans Kling and Riess. Already these five cars had pull out a two lap advantage over the rest of the field.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
As darkness fell, the Ferrari-Jaguar battle continued unabated, between Ascari/Villoresi and Rolt/Hamilton, with the Alfa Romeos close behind and the overall order swapping around according to pit-strategy. During the early hours of the morning, Rolt and Hamilton continued to lead with no sign of tiring, while the Ferrari was now losing ground – the big engine starting to stretch the rest of the powertrain.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
The Gordinis were once again punching above their weight, mixing it in the top-10 with the third works Jaguar, the other Ferraris and the Cunninghams. The smaller-engined car was a high as 7th ahead of its stable-mate until its rear-axle seized, necessitating long repairs that proved terminal soon after midnight. In the other classes the Porsche 550s had the measure of all the smaller cars and, aside from those superfast Gordinis, were even running ahead of the S2.0 and S3.0 cars.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
Just after midnight, Tommy Wisdom's Bristol had an engine fire (almost an identical problem had hit its sister-car earlier in the evening). Crashing, Wisdom was trapped for a short while before being rescued and taken to hospital with minor burns and a dislocated shoulder.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
Then just before 3am, the rear suspension on the Sanesi/Carini Alfa Romeo had collapsed, and they were out, along with George Abecassis and Roy Salvadori with oil getting into their Aston Martin's clutch.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night
Although the Ascari and Villoresi car was still taking the fight to the Jaguars, the car was hindered by a sticking clutch and drinking a lot of water. However, the Italians, in a win-or-bust attempt, were driving flat out at all times, but it had no effect on Rolt and Hamilton. Their Jaguar now had a lap lead over the Ferrari.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning
Despite the night being very clear and fine, dawn approached with a certain amount of mist in the air, making driving conditions very tiring. Just after 6.30am Tom Cole, running 7th, had just overtaken a back-marker when he lost control at the Maison Blanche corners. The Ferrari ploughed into the roadside ditch then rolled and struck a wooden hut nearby. Cole was hurled out of the car in the initial impact and died at the scene.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning
The windscreen on the leading Jaguar had been smashed early in the race by bird-strike, and as result Rolt and Hamilton were suffering from wind buffering, but the pair kept up the pace nevertheless, with an average speed of well over 105 mph. By the time the mist had cleared, Rolt and Hamilton still led by a lap from the struggling Ferrari. Third place, over three laps adrift, was the Cunningham of Fitch/Walters and a lap further back were the fast Jaguars of Moss/Walker (back in the race after a terrific hard drive back through the field) and Whitehead/Stewart.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning
Shortly after 8:30am, the leading Jaguar and Ferrari both made routine refuelling stops at the same time. Hamilton had what would now be termed an “unsafe release” when, in the rush to beat the Ferrari, he pulled out right in front of one of the DB-Panhards coming in for its own pitstop. Walters had a big moment when his Cunningham blew a tyre at high speed but he was able to catch it. But with the subsequent pitstop to fix the damage, Moss was able to move up to third.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning
By 9:00am, the clutch issues with the lead Ferrari gave it a long stop, and it was now back in fifth place. This left Rolt and Hamilton clear up front, but they could not rest as Fitch and Walters started to fight back and hound the Moss/Walker Jaguar for second place.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning
The lame Ferrari retired just before 11am having dropped down the order to sixth place. This left only the Marzotto car to challenge the Jaguars and the lead Cunningham. It could not do it and raced to finish in fifth, keeping the Gordini of Maurice Trintignant and Harry Schell behind them.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning
The Lancias had never made an impression, none having made it into the top-10 and just after midday the engine of the last one running (of González and Biondetti) gave up.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
With three hours to ago, the Jaguars were still lapping at over 105 mph, however the pace had slackened a little. In the closing stages the order did not change, as Hamilton took over from Rolt to complete the last stage of the race. Driving their British license-plated Jaguar C-Type they took the victory, covering a distance of 2,555.04 miles (4,088.064 km), doing 304 laps and averaging a speed of 106.46 mph (170.336 km/h). Moss and Walker were four laps adrift at the finish, in second place with their C-Type after their epic drive. The podium was completed by Walters and Fitch, in their Cunningham C-5R a lap back. The third works Jaguar finished fourth, two laps further behind the Americans, after a very conservative and reliable race.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
The Marzotto brothers brought home the sole remaining Ferrari in fifth, finishing with virtually no clutch but having stayed in the top 10 throughout the race. A lap back was the Gordini, having had a trouble-free run. Owner-driver Briggs Cunningham came in 7th followed by the works Talbot of  Levegh, finishing this year, and the private Jaguar, entered by Ecurie Francorchamps for Roger Laurent and Charles de Tornaco, in their standard C-Type.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
In a race of attrition where only 1 car, if any, of the many other works teams finished, it was an effort of remarkable reliability that all cars of the Jaguar, Cunningham and Panhard works teams  finished. The Panhard team staged a formation finish, winning the Index of Performance by the narrowest of margins.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
As expected, the Porsches finished 1–2 in the S-1500 class with the win going to the car driven by racing journalists Paul Frère and Richard von Frankenberg


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
The little DB-Panhards had an extraordinary run, that of owner-driver René Bonnet winning the S-750 class ahead of its sister car, and finishing 5 laps clear of the OSCA winning the bigger S-1100 class. They were on course for the coveted Index of Performance win, but a bad engine misfire meant it used too much fuel on its very last lap. The streamlined Panhard won the Index by the tiniest fraction on a countback.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
Records were broken across the board – the first time a car completed the race with an average speed over 100 mph (in fact the first six finishers did) and covered over 2500 miles (4000 km). All the categories broke their class records, and a new lap record was set.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race
With such a varied and competitive field there could be no better advertisement for the new Sports Car Championship going forward. However, it would be without several teams: after dominating the early Formula 1 championship, and a semi-successful year in sports cars, Alfa Romeo withdrew from motor racing. Jowett was already in receivership and it would also be the last Le Mans for Allard, Lancia and Nash-Healey.


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Official results
Results taken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Statistics
Taken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO


1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, World Championship Standings after the race
Championship points were awarded for the first six places in each race in the order of 8-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest finishing car, with no points awarded for positions filled by additional cars.


1953 A Group
Statistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1953 season.


1953 A Group, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.


1953 AAA Championship Car season
The 1953 AAA Championship Car season consisted of 12 races, beginning in Speedway, Indiana on May 30 and concluding in Phoenix, Arizona on November 11. There was also one non-championship event in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The AAA National Champion was Sam Hanks, and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Bill Vukovich. Chet Miller died while practicing for the Indianapolis 500.


1953 AAA Championship Car season, Final points standings
Note1: The points became the car, when not only one driver led the car, the relieved driver became small part of the points. Points for driver method: (the points for the finish place) / (number the lap when completed the car) * (number the lap when completed the driver)


1953 AAA Championship Car season, Final points standings
Note2: Bob Scott was running at the finish of two races after taking over mid-event as a relief driver.


1953 Abingdon by-election
The Abingdon by-election was held on 30 June 1953 after the previous MP, Ralph Glyn was elevated to the peerage.


1953 Achingmori incident
In 1953 a group of Daphla tribals of the Tagin people killed 47 members of an Indian government party including personnel of the Assam Rifles and tribal porters during an administrative tour in Achingmori in present day Arunachal Pradesh. Apart from tribal rivalries and unfollowed security protocols, the massacre was also attributed to a rumour that the government party was there to free slaves. A village priest had also confirmed this through an omen. The tribal leaders who were guilty were jailed for three to four years. This was considered as too short a period by the Galong tribals who were also victims in the massacre. They in turn killed one of the leaders behind the massacre.


1953 Achingmori incident, Background
The area in which the incident happened, as well as nearby areas, were completely un-administered at the time. There were no roads or communication, and the tribals of the area were also unfamiliar with not only Indian administration, but any type of external administration. The Daflas were some of the most primitive of the tribes restricted to a certain area in the Daphla Hills, unaware of modern administration.


1953 Achingmori incident, Background
In 1953 Nehru stated in the parliament that "The fact that that place is not an administered area does not mean that it is outside — I am not talking about law, but of practice — the territory of the Indian Union. As a matter of fact, we are administering area beyond it, the border area that is administered. We have outposts and checkposts beyond that. These are virgin forests in between and the question does not arise of their considering in a constitutional sense what their position is. I do not think they are acquainted with any Constitution."


1953 Achingmori incident, Background
At the time, the Indian government was also following a policy of restraint when establishing administration throughout NEFA (now called Arunachal Pradesh). In 1951, India, represented by an Assistant Political Officer, Ralengnao Khathing, took control of Tawang with just one platoon (36 soldiers), of the Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force.


1953 Achingmori incident, Incident
On 22 October 1953, Patrol Commander Major R.D. Singh, accompanied by 22 personnel of the Assam Rifles, one Area Superintendent, two Jamadars, two interpreters, 17 village headmen and 100 porters, arrived at Achingmori. The purpose of the group was to investigate tribal feuds, other than its humanitarian role.


1953 Achingmori incident, Incident
The group set up camp at a clearing surrounded by thick forest as suggested by the locals. The location had temporary huts, and Major Singh considered this as a sign of friendliness, resulting in lax protective measures. Sometime later 10 Daflas asked for permission to enter the camp. The sentry did not disarm them and as soon as they entered the camp following permission from Major Singh, the sentry was killed. Following this, 400 to 500 Daflas, armed with primitive weapons, launched an attack. A total of 47 members of the group, including the Major, were killed while the remaining were taken captive.


1953 Achingmori incident, Incident
The Assam Rifles column had apparently reached Achingmori in the afternoon, when everything seemed quite normal. The villagers gave a happy welcome to the jawans, who proceeded in due course to distribute salt to them as a gesture of goodwill. The atmosphere appeared so friendly that the jawans stacked their weapons some distance away from where they were distributing salt and were completely unarmed. All of a sudden, at a given signal, they were attacked with daos and cut down....


1953 Achingmori incident, Aftermath
Major Singh was blamed for failing to take normal precautions. Two previous administrative parties had met with no such incident. The massacre also supposedly happened because of the tribal rivalries and history between the Daflas and Arbors. There were a number of Arbor porters in the group. The cause of the incident was also attributed to a rumour related to the government party and their goal of freeing slaves. During the incident one of the tribal porters, Tare Nosi, managed to escape despite a sword wound. He managed to travel 70 miles towards Along.


1953 Achingmori incident, Aftermath
Information about the attack reached Gusar Outpost on 25 October. A small rescue party was sent however due to the destruction of a bridge by the Daflas, the rescue party could not reach the location. When the information reached Shillong, various outposts in Subansiri and the Abor Hills were reinforced with Assam Rifles platoons flown in by the Indian Air Force. The air force was also involved in extensive "reconnoitre". Assam Rifles sent some battalions to find those responsible for the massacre but were unsuccessful. Tagin tribes have very little permanent dwellings and can keep up evasion tactics over a long period.


1953 Achingmori incident, Aftermath
It would have been easy enough for us to take punitive action... We could have bombed their villages and killed a large number of their people. No great skill was needed for that, but we are treating the incident normally as we would treat a dacoity or a riot, the only difference being that it took place in somewhat unusual surroundings. The policy of our Government is not to strike terror or kill and destroy indiscriminately.


1953 Achingmori incident, Aftermath
We shall certainly restore peace and order in this area, bring to book the real offenders and ring leaders, but we do not wish to punish the innocent and the misguided. We are confident that we can have the friendship and respect of these simple folks by adopting a firm, clear and sympathetic policy towards them.


1953 Achingmori incident, Aftermath
In 1955, a former army officer and Indian Frontier Administrative Service officer P. N. Kaul was given the responsibility to arrest those responsible. The only people who were willing to point Kaul in the direction of the culprits were those who had lost people in the incident. The main culprits were Agi Radap of the Radap sub-clan of Tagins. Following information regarding his location, Kaul went to his village. Following a few days of talks with Radap as well as Duchak Kora and Komda Kotuk, Agi Radap came before Kaul alone and told him how the massace was planned.


1953 Achingmori incident, Aftermath
A rumour had spread among them that the government team was coming to free slaves in the area. On top of this, the village priest said that a omen had favoured murdering the government party. Soon after, Kaul managed to arrest and try the leaders of the massacre. Even though they were given life imprisonment, they were released in three or four years.


1953 Achingmori incident, Aftermath
This short imprisonment did not go down well with the Galongs, the ones who had lost people in the massacre. A few months later Komda Kotuk was dragged through Yomcha village and tortured in the same way as the Achingmori victims had been tortured. The aggrieved tribals had been planning this since the day of the massacre and had been keeping a track on Komda for over a year. Kual knew that punishing the tribals under the Indian Penal Code would not be considered as justice in their eyes. Kual would go on to write,


1953 Achingmori incident, Aftermath
They were disrobed of their red coats and all the gun licences cancelled and guns confiscated. Having had their revenge, they took it all calmly. I did not have the heart to lodge a case of murder against them. By the time the case would have reached the High Court in the plains, which was a pre-requisite, the evidence would have weakened from all angles. Such are the differences in the mensrea or "criminal intent" and I feel that criminal intent should be interpreted according to the mental makeup of the society one lives in. What may be a criminal intent in one place in a fully administered area, in my opinion need not be so in a very remote tribal area.


1953 Achingmori incident, Aftermath
A large part of the restraint shown by India following this incident goes to Nari Rustomji, an advisor of the governor of Assam J D Daulatram. In place of an aggressive military reaction, Nari Rustomji got the guilty convicted after a procedurally sound trial. However, Ajai Shukla writes that the lack of Indian military in the area caused its own problems; "placing local sensibilities above national security also created the mindset that led to the 1962 defeat."


1953 Adelaide Carnival
The 1953 Adelaide Carnival was the 12th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition. It took place from 8 to 18 July at Adelaide Oval.


1953 Adelaide Carnival
Home state South Australia was joined by the two Victorian teams Victoria (VFL) & Victoria (VFA), Western Australia, Tasmania, theVictoria (VFL) were the best performed side, finishing the carnival unbeaten.


1953 Adelaide Carnival
A crowd of 52,632, then a record for an interstate game, attended the game between South Australian and Victoria which would decide the Championship. South Australia, even though they had accounted for Victoria as recently as 1952, were no match on this occasion for their Victorian opponents and lost by 99 points. The VFA team performed admirably, defeating Tasmania and getting within 18 points of Western Australia and 33 points of Victoria.


1953 Adelaide Carnival
Tasmania finished the carnival winless and had to play-off against the Australian Amateurs team in order to re-qualify as an 'elite' team come the next carnival.


1953 Adelaide Carnival
The youngest player at the carnival was 17-year-old Neil Conlan from Tasmania.


1953 Adelaide Carnival, All-Australian team
The inaugural All-Australian team was named in 1953, based on the performances at the Adelaide Carnival.


1953 Akron Zips football team
The 1953 Akron Zips football team was an American football team that represented the University of Akron in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1953 college football season. In its second and final season under head coach Kenneth Cochrane, the team compiled a 6–3 record (4–2 against OAC opponents) and was outscored by a total of 210 to 198. Frank Gradyan was the team captain. The team played its home games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio.


1953 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
The 1953 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously "Alabama", "UA" or "Bama") represented the University of Alabama in the 1953 college football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 59th overall and 20th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Harold Drew, in his seventh year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Legion Field in Birmingham, Ladd Stadium in Mobile and at the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama. They finished with a record of six wins, three losses and three ties (6–3–3 overall, 4–0–3 in the SEC), as SEC Champions and with a loss against Rice in the Cotton Bowl Classic.


1953 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
1953 was one of the more unusual seasons in Alabama history. After they opened the season as the preseason No. 5 team, the Crimson Tide lost to Mississippi Southern and tied LSU before they had their first win of the season against Vanderbilt in week three. Alabama won only six games all year, and only four of seven conference games. However, the other three conference games were ties, and a 4–0–3 record was good enough to win Alabama the SEC title. It was Bama's first conference championship since 1945 and last until 1961. For their championship, Alabama accepted an invitation to play in the Cotton Bowl Classic.


1953 Alabama Crimson Tide football team
In their matchup against Rice one of the strangest plays in the history of college football occurred. In the second quarter, the Owls had the ball on its own five-yard line up 7–6 after they recovered an Alabama fumble. On their first play of the drive, Rice running back Dicky Moegle swept around the right side, broke free, and appeared to be on his way to a 95-yard touchdown run—until Tommy Lewis of Alabama, who was on the sideline, ran into the field of play and tackled Moegle at the Alabama 40. Officials awarded Moegle a 95-yard touchdown run, and Rice won the game 28–6.


1953 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi Southern
To open the 1953 season, Alabama was upset by the Mississippi Southern Southerners 25–19 at the Cramton Bowl on a Friday night. The first touchdown of the game was set up after Jim David recovered a Laurin Pepper fumble at the Southern 43-yards line. Five plays later, Tommy Lewis scored on a short run for a 7–0 Alabama lead. The Eagles responded on their next possession with a three-yard Billy Jarrell touchdown pass to Bucky McElroy and made the score 7–6.


1953 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi Southern
In the second quarter each team traded touchdowns with Alabama scoring on a five-yard William Oliver, Southern on a 45-yard Jarrell pass to Pepper and Alabama again on a five-yard Bart Starr pass to Curtis Lynch for a 19–12 Crimson Tide lead at halftime. After a scoreless third, Southern scored a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns, first on a 66-yard Pepper run and then on 23-yard Jarrell pass to Leonard Williams, and won the game 25–19. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi Southern to 6–1.


1953 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU
To open conference play for the 1953 season, Alabama played LSU to a 7–7 tie at Ladd Stadium in Mobile. Both of the touchdowns scored in the game were made in the first quarter. The first was scored by Alabama on a two-yard Tommy Lewis run and LSU responded on the drive that ensued with a one-yard George Brancato run for what turned out to be the final points of the game. The tie brought Alabama's all-time record against LSU to 14–6–4.


1953 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
In their first road game of the season, the Crimson Tide defeated the Vanderbilt Commodores by a final score of 21–12 in Nashville for their first win of the season and their first over Vandy since the 1946 season. The Crimson Tide took a 14–0 first quarter lead with a pair of touchdowns scored in just under two minutes. Bobby Luna scored first on a four-yard run and then Bart Starr threw a 43-yard touchdown pass to Bud Willis.


1953 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt then cut the lead to 14–6 at halftime after they scored on a five-yard Floyd Teas touchdown run late in the second quarter. In the second half, the Crimson Tide scored in the third on a 30-yard Starr pass to Joe Cummings and the Commodores scored in the fourth on a three-yard Daniel Byers run and made the final score 21–12. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Vanderbilt to 17–14–1.