Saturday 21 March 1953 at Molineux (Att 29,884)

Wolves (2) 3 (Wright 25, Swinbourne 33, Hancocks 50): Sims, Short, Pritchard, Flowers, Shorthouse, Wright, Hancocks, Stockin, Swinbourne, Wilshaw, Mullen.
Liverpool (0) 0: Crossley, Lambert, Spicer, Saunders, Jones, Taylor, Payne, Smyth, Liddell, A Smith, A’Court.

Referee: Mr A Murdoch (Sheffield).
International: Wolves were missing Bill Slater who was away captaining England amateur against Scotland.
Position: 1st.