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1929 Boston College Eagles football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ20708401 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1929 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College as an independent during the 1929 college football season. Led by second-year head coach Joe McKenney, the Eagles compiled a record of 7–2–1.

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“1929 Boston College Eagles football team” enters the record as american college football team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Boston, College and Eagles 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—1929—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Boston, College and Eagles.
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“1929 Boston College Eagles football team” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Boston, College and Eagles provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20708401. The first chronological checks are 1929.

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This entry incorporates text from “1929 Boston College Eagles 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.