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1928 Arkansas Razorbacks football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ20806797 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1928 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1928 college football season. In their seventh and final year under head coach Francis Schmidt, the Razorbacks compiled a 7–2 record (2–1 against SWC opponents), finished in second place in the SWC, shut out five of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 251 to 63.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1928 Arkansas Razorbacks football team” as american college football season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1928—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Arkansas, Razorbacks and football can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as american college football season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20806797. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1928.

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This entry incorporates text from “1928 Arkansas Razorbacks 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.