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1923 William & Mary Indians football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ22026305 ↗
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The 1923 William & Mary Indians football team represented the College of William & Mary as an independent during the 1923 college football season. Led by first-year head coach J. Wilder Tasker, the Indians compiled a record of 6–3.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1923 William & Mary Indians football team” as american college football team season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where William, Mary and Indians can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1923 William & Mary Indians 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.