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1906 Lincoln Tigers football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ133799919 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1906 Lincoln Tigers football team represented Lincoln Institute—now known as Lincoln University—in Jefferson City, Missouri as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The Lincoln football team finished the season with an impressive record of 6–1. The six wins in one season set the record for most in a single season for Lincoln. This win total was only matched in 1931 and not surpassed until 1951, with the record having stood for an astounding 45 years.

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“1906 Lincoln Tigers football team” enters the record as american college football season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lincoln, Tigers and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1906, 1931, 1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lincoln, Tigers and football.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q133799919. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1906, 1931 and 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “1906 Lincoln Tigers 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.