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1933 Virginia Cavaliers football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ55264679 ↗
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The 1933 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1933 college football season. The Cavaliers were led by third-year head coach Fred Dawson and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Southern Conference, finishing with a conference record of 1–3–1 and a 2–6–2 record overall. After the season, Dawson resigned as head coach. He had an overall record of 8–17–4 at Virginia.

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“1933 Virginia Cavaliers football team” enters the record as american college football season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Virginia, Cavaliers and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Virginia, Cavaliers and football.
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This entry incorporates text from “1933 Virginia Cavaliers 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.