What league position were Hibs the day you were born?

[O'Rourke3]

15th above Ayr, Clyde and St Mirren. Celtic two places above. Der Hun on top followed by Killie the Third Lanark. Gorgie Gallacticos mid table. Fast forward to May and the merricks won the league. We were 7th. Arbroath and Stirling Albion relegated.

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[lord bunberry]

2nd to rangers on 1st of May 1975. We’ve never finished higher than third since. It was the final season of the old two league system. Eight teams were relegated that season.
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[Allant1981]

top of division 1 the day i was born, 4th of may 1981

[Carheenlea]

3rd, behind Celtic and Rangers in March 1970. Celtic out in front on 48 points with Rangers on 41 and ourselves on 36. Two points for a win, so goes to show how good that Celtic team was at the time.

[davcar]

Dec 11th 69 and Top!!

[CentreLine]

N’erday 1959 and we were lying 9th, just above Celtic on goal average.

[Spike Mandela]

Top of the heap

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[Hibbyradge]

4th.

We had 28 points. Hearts were top with 40 then Rangers and Killie.

[Smartie]

A disappointing 7th on 28th October 1977.

I was interested to see though that we were still ahead of Celtic, who had won their 9th league title in a row the previous season and must have had a stinking start to the season.

For those of you that were around then - what happened to Celtic that season? How did they go from being so good to so poor? Was it a particularly strong Rangers team that won the league?

[makaveli1875]

Top of 1st division 5 points ahead of Raith Rovers

[Dalehibbie]

6th, Yams were top with Celtic 2nd and Rangers 8th.

[Billy Whizz]

2nd bottom after only 1 game though

Remember they only gave 2 points in these days for a win😬

[KWJ]

9th in 10 team league.

[franks]

Born in the summer of 1951 before the first game of 51-52 season so Hibs were champions. Hibs retained the championship 51-52 season and I missed every match.

[Forza Fred]

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We were top of the league, went onto win it and won it the following year also.

Some year 1951😂

[southsider]

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N’erday 1959 and we were lying 9th, just above Celtic on goal average.

59 years ago or 21,535 days ago today we were 10th in an 18 team league.

[Aim Here]

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I knew Hibernian won the League the year i was born (1952)
But the question had me searching.

I assume we were top of the League on the day i was born,as we had only lost 3 games (i think) from the start of the season up till end of January.

The now defunct club Rangers came second.

East Fife came third !!

We beat Celtic at the Holy Ground 3-1 in the same week i was born.

That will do the morn

Heh, that's no doubt some good mental exercise, but everyone else was just going to the website that the OP linked to, and typing in the date they were born! Us young 'uns clearly are getting far too lazy with all this technology we have now.

In your case, the website points out that Hearts were actually second at the end of January, but, yes, by season end, Rangers had displaced them.

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[HiBremian]

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I knew Hibernian won the League the year i was born (1952)
But the question had me searching.

I assume we were top of the League on the day i was born,as we had only lost 3 games (i think) from the start of the season up till end of January.

The now defunct club Rangers came second.

East Fife came third !!

We beat Celtic at the Holy Ground 3-1 in the same week i was born.

That will do the morn

I was born in August 1953. Checked the OP's link, knowing we hadn't won the 1952/3 league, but only now realise the circumstances. The Old Huns had the same points as us (43), but won on goal average (2.0513 against our 1.8235). Annoyingly, by today's rules we would have been champions. The Huns' goal difference was 41, ours 42. If 3 points had been awarded for a win instead of 2, we would have had 62 points to their 61.

PS Also found my first-ever match, against Clyde on January 23rd 1960, when I was 6. Joe Baker hat-trick, 5-5 draw, and 2 of the famous five still in the team.

[Keith_M]

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Born in May and Hibs had won the league just three weeks earlier.

Just to make sure I got off to good start in life, they won it the next year too😂

If they had goal difference instead of goal average at that time, they would have won it the season after that as well.

[Mick O'Rourke]

[QUOTE=Aim Here;5375180]Heh, that's no doubt some good mental exercise, but everyone else was just going to the website that the OP linked to, and typing in the date they were born!]



I know the website right enough (in ma favourites) doh!
So yes,top of the league the day i was born.


Its always fun and informative searching Hibernian history.
Post war to '53 must have been magical days for Hibernian fans.
The Ludging hooses in the West Port ,Grassmarket and " The Coogit" will have been bouncing.

[PeeJay]

We were 15th - Celtic were 11th, Rangers 4th, Raith Rovers 3rd - Hearts on top ... seems a long time ago .... 18 in the league, 11 games played at the time - think we improved once I was here

[Keith_M]

Apparently Hibs were 7th the day I was born, just behind Hearts. They finished 6th, just above Hearts.

Average attendance at ER that season was 12,000. Highest 38,000 against Rangers and lowest was 3,800 against Clyde.


Nowadays the highest and lowest attendances only vary by about 5,000. Wierd!

[JeMeSouviens]

I didn't realise Hibs played on the day I was born. 3-3 draw away at St Mirren to consolidate 3rd in the league. 10 pts behind Celtc, 5 behind the original Huns and 4 ahead of our cuddly neighbours.

We finished the season 3rd as well, closing to just a point behind the foul Hunnish horde.

[JeMeSouviens]

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A disappointing 7th on 28th October 1977.

I was interested to see though that we were still ahead of Celtic, who had won their 9th league title in a row the previous season and must have had a stinking start to the season.

For those of you that were around then - what happened to Celtic that season? How did they go from being so good to so poor? Was it a particularly strong Rangers team that won the league?

Celtc were in decline in the 2nd half of the 70s. Their 9 in a row ended in 74, the Old Huns won the last old style Div 1 league in 75 and the new Premier division in 76. Jock Stein was involved in a near fatal car crash in 75 but recovered for one last league and cup double after kidnapping Pat Stanton () in 77. Then Kenny Dalglish left for Liverpool and they really tanked the following season. The KD signing was a British record fee I think and a huge deal at the time.

[stantonhibby]

Sept 66.......a Saturday.....beat Hearts 3-1 that day!

[Liberal Hibby]

Born just after the end of the 64/65 season when Kilmarnock won the league by goal average from a certain team in the west of the city. Hibs were fourth just 4 points behind, with Dunfermline in third a point off the top two.

Incredibly the Old Firm were fifth and eighth - has there ever been a season where the ugly sisters finished so low?

[tamig]

Jeez, we were second - 2 points behind hertz 😮

[Stevie Reid]

Grim!

1 December 1977

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[SChibs]

5th on the 6th of January 1994

[Jumbo]

3rd after 13 games 3 points behind Killie and Hearts