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1927 North Dakota Agricultural Bison football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ98078946 ↗
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The 1927 North Dakota Agricultural Bison football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1927 college football season. In its third season under head coach Ion Cortright, the team compiled a 3–5 record (1–3 against NCC opponents) and finished in fifth place out of teams in the NCC. The team played its home games at Dacotah Field in Fargo, North Dakota.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1927—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where North, Dakota and Agricultural can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “1927 North Dakota Agricultural Bison 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.