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1902 Texas A&M Aggies football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ22025639 ↗
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The 1902 A&M Aggies football team represented the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas—now known as Texas A&M University—as an independent during the 1902 college football season. Led by first-year head coach J. E. Platt, the Aggies compiled a record of 7–0–2.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1902—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Texas, Aggies and football can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1902 Texas A&M Aggies 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.