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Sectarianism existed as a societal problem and rangers became a vehicle,an expression for it.They evolved into that role due to the fact that Celtic started to dominate Scots fiba for a while and the Protestant community needed to see that there was a challenge to Celtic. Its pretty well documented.

You can have the more final appearances,big deal - hibs have the trophy from that era and are proudly on the scottish cup along with the other major scottish clubs from that time.

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Incidentally lugtons book about hibernians history pre- the great war is full of loads of interesting stuff from this period in scottish fitba history. Whilst WH murrays book of "the old firm" is also a fascinating read.