Saturday 5 December 1953 at White Hart Lane (Att 48,164)

Tottenham Hotspur (1) 2 (Bennett 26, Duquemin 59): Ditchburn, Ramsey, Withers, Nicholson, Clarke, Burgess, Walters, Bennett, Duquemin, Bailey, McClellan.
Wolves (0) 3 (Wilshaw 53, Broadbent 54, Hancocks 78): Williams, Short, Pritchard, Shorthouse, Wright, Hancocks, Broadbent, Swinbourne, Wilshaw, Mullen.

Referee: Rev S Davis (Long Hanborough, Oxford).
Order of Goals: t,W,W,t,W.
Position: 1st.