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1917 Wyoming Cowboys football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ60617750 ↗
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The 1917 Wyoming Cowboys football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wyoming as a member of the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1917 college football season. In their third season under head coach John Corbett, the Cowboys compiled a 3–4 record (1–4 against conference opponents), finished seventh in the RMC, and were outscored by a total of 140 to 24.

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“1917 Wyoming Cowboys football team” enters the record as american college football team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wyoming, Cowboys 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—1917—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wyoming, Cowboys 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 Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60617750. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1917.

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This entry incorporates text from “1917 Wyoming Cowboys 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.