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1904 Richmond Spiders football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ108485780 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1904 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented Richmond College—now known as the University of Richmond—as a member of the Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association (EVIAA) during the 1904 college football season. Led by Harry Wall in his first and only year as head coach, Richmond compiled a record of 1–5.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1904 Richmond Spiders football team” is american college football season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Richmond, Spiders and football, 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—1904—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Richmond, Spiders and football is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1904 Richmond Spiders 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.