Saturday 4 April 1953 at Molineux (Att 30,396)
Wolves (1) 3 (Wilshaw 27, Stockin 58 76): Sims, Short, Pritchard, Flowers, Wright, Slater, Hancocks, Stockin, Swinbourne, Wilshaw, Mullen.
Stoke City (0) 0: Elliott, Sellars, McCue, Mountford, Thompson, Johnson, Malkin, Bower, Brown, Martin, Oscroft.
Referee: Mr N Taylor (Westbury, Wilts).
Position: 1st.