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1897 USC Methodists football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ28228579 ↗
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The 1897 USC Methodists football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern California during the 1897 college football season. The team competed as an independent under head coach Lewis R. Freeman, compiling a 5–1 record.

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“1897 USC Methodists football team” enters the record as american college football team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Methodists, football and team can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Methodists, football and team.
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This entry incorporates text from “1897 USC Methodists football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.