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1930 Stanford football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ18343816 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1930 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1930 college football season. Their head coach was Pop Warner in his seventh season. Stanford played its home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.

On November 25, shortly before the team's final game against Dartmouth, a unanimous vote of the Executive Committee for the Associated Students chose "Indians" as the official mascot of Stanford's sports teams.

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The public source identifies “1930 Stanford football team” as american college football team season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Stanford, football and team.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Stanford, football and team providing the first useful test.
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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 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18343816. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930.

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This entry incorporates text from “1930 Stanford 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.