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1926 Ottawa Senators (CFL) season

CFL team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ4561916 ↗
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The 1926 Ottawa Senators finished in first place in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union with a 5–1 record and successfully repeated as Grey Cup champions by winning the 14th Grey Cup. It was the second Grey Cup championship won by the franchise and was the first ever repeat by an IRFU team.

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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—1926—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ottawa, Senators and season can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1926 Ottawa Senators (CFL) season” 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.