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1934 Arizona State–Flagstaff Lumberjacks football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ135089707 ↗
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The 1934 Arizona State–Flagstaff Lumberjacks football team represented the Arizona State Teachers College at Flagstaff (now known as Northern Arizona University) as a member of the Border Conference during the 1934 college football season. Led by second-year head coach Ira MacIntosh, the Lumberjacks compiled an overall record of 1–5–1, with a mark of 0–3–1 in conference play, and finished sixth in the Border.

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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—1934—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Arizona, State and Flagstaff is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1934 Arizona State–Flagstaff Lumberjacks 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.