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1902 Philadelphia Phillies (NFL) season

American football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ4558000 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1902 Philadelphia Phillies football season was their second season in existence. This season the team, was sponsored by the Philadelphia Phillies Baseball Club and played in the first National Football League. The team finished with an overall record of 8–3, including a 2–3 record in league play to finish third in the standings.

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Games between NFL teams are represented in bold.

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References

PFRA Research. "Dave Berry and the Philadelphia Story: The Very First N.F.L." (PDF). Coffin Corner. Professional Football Researchers Association: 1–6.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1902 Philadelphia Phillies (NFL) season” is american football season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Philadelphia, Phillies and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1902—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Philadelphia, Phillies and season is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4558000. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1902.

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This entry incorporates text from “1902 Philadelphia Phillies (NFL) season” 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.