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===Bill Struth and Scot Symon=== Taking over as manager after William Wilton's death in 1920, [[Bill Struth]] was Rangers' most successful manager, guiding the club to 14 league titles before the onset of the [[Second World War]]. On 2 January 1939, a British league attendance record was broken as 118,567 fans turned out to watch Rangers beat Celtic in the traditional New Year's Day [[Old Firm]] match.<ref name="Record attendance">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2346330/A-lot-of-bottle-in-Old-Firm-duels.html|title=A lot of bottle in Old Firm duels|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=22 September 2006|access-date=24 August 2012|author=Forsyth, Roddy|quote=The record Old Firm gate at a club ground was set on 2 Jan 1939 by a crowd of 118,567 at Ibrox.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208192622/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2346330/A-lot-of-bottle-in-Old-Firm-duels.html|archive-date=8 December 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Leading the club for 34 years until 1954, Struth won more trophies than any manager in Scottish Football history, amassing 18 league championships, 10 Scottish Cups, two League Cups, seven war-time championships, 19 Glasgow Cups, 17 Glasgow Merchant Charity Cups and other war-time honours.<ref name="Founded 1872" /><ref name="Wilton and struth">{{cite web|url=http://www.rangers.co.uk/index.php/club/history/club-history/item/506-the-dominant-force|publisher=Rangers F.C.|title=The Dominant Force|quote=Sadly, Wilton was not to enjoy this extraordinary success which saw Rangers take the title 15 times in 21 seasons.<br />With the Championship back at Ibrox, Wilton β the club's first manager β died the day after the last game of the season in May 1920, drowning in a boating accident.<br />Struth, who was appointed his successor, lived to become a legend. He managed the club for 34 years, winning a glittering array of trophies β 18 League Championships, 10 Scottish Cups and two League Cups.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522065218/http://www.rangers.co.uk/index.php/club/history/club-history/item/506-the-dominant-force|archive-date=22 May 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> During the wartime regional league setup (in which the team won all seven seasons, along with official championships either side of the conflict in 1938β39 and 1946β47), Rangers achieved their highest score against Celtic with an 8β1 win in the [[Southern Football League (Scotland)|Southern Football League]].<ref name="Record old firm result">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2011/dec/30/joy-of-six-new-year-fixtures|title=The Joy of Six: new year football fixtures|work=The Guardian|date=30 December 2011|access-date=6 January 2013|author=Murray, Scott|quote=The humiliated Rangers boss that day was Scot Symon, so it is with a pleasing symmetry that Symon was a player in the other record victory in an Old Firm match. Because while Celtic's 7β1 win is the biggest win in official competition, Rangers went one better in an unofficial wartime Scottish Southern League ne'erday game between the two rivals in 1943. An Ibrox crowd of just over 30,000 watched a strong Rangers side including Symon, George Young and the legendary winger Willie Waddell rattle up an 8β1 victory.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218223906/http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2011/dec/30/joy-of-six-new-year-fixtures|archive-date=18 February 2012|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/celtic/rangers-dominated-wartime-football-should-their-titles-be-recognised-record-books-2504693?amp Rangers dominated wartime football but should their titles be recognised in the record books?], The Scotsman, 21 March 2020.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-supporters-campaign-world-war-10952292|title=Rangers supporters campaign for World War Two titles to be recognised by SFA and SPFL|author=Record Sport Online|date=8 August 2017|website=Daily Record|access-date=17 December 2020}}</ref> [[Scot Symon]] continued Struth's success, winning six league championships, five Scottish Cups and four League Cups, becoming the second manager to win the domestic treble in [[1963β64 in Scottish football|1963β64 season]], the era of [[Jim Baxter|'Slim' Jim Baxter]], one of the club's greatest players.<ref name="Scot symon">{{cite web|url=http://www.in.com/scot-symon/profile-249707.html|title=About Scot Symon|publisher=in.com|access-date=20 December 2012|quote=He returned to Rangers just one year later where he would steer them to six league championships. He also took Rangers into European football for the first time reaching two Cup Winners Cup finals which was a fine achievement by losing in both finals|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101085803/http://www.in.com/scot-symon/profile-249707.html|archive-date=1 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Rangers greats baxter">{{cite web|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1010809-top-10-rangers-players-of-all-time/page/9|title=Top 10 Glasgow Rangers Players of All Time|work=Bleacher Report|date=5 January 2012|access-date=23 December 2012|author=Stone, Colin|pages=2β11|quote=Regarded as one of Scotland's greatest ever players, Jim Baxter can also be counted amongst the Rangers' greats for his terrific achievements in the '60s.<br />"Slim Jim" joined the club in 1960 for Β£17,500, a record at the time, and went on to win 10 trophies in the five years he spent in Scotland.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527044149/http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1010809-top-10-rangers-players-of-all-time/page/9|archive-date=27 May 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Rangers also lost by their biggest Old Firm margin of 7β1.<ref name="Record old firm result" /> Rangers reached the semi-finals of the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] in 1960, losing to German club [[Eintracht Frankfurt]] by a record aggregate 12β4 for a Scottish team.<ref name="Record aggregate european lose">{{Cite web|date=2002-05-15|title=Hampden dazzled by white magic|url=http://www.theguardian.com/football/2002/may/15/championsleague.sport|access-date=2021-02-10|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> In 1961 Rangers became the first British team to reach a European final when they contested the Cup Winners' Cup final against Italian side [[ACF Fiorentina|Fiorentina]], only to lose 4β1 on aggregate.<ref name="Rangers first british side in european final">{{cite web|url=http://www.culturewars.org.uk/2001-7/hampden.htm|title='And the cry was "No Defenders"' The Museum of Scottish Football at Hampden Park, Glasgow|work=Culture Wars|publisher=Institute of Ideas|access-date=23 August 2012|author=Baird, Stuart|quote=Rangers were the first British team to reach a European final in 1961|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002010054/http://www.culturewars.org.uk/2001-7/hampden.htm|archive-date=2 October 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Rangers lost again in the final of the same competition in 1967, by a single goal, after extra time, to [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]].<ref name="Rangers uefa page" />
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