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1936 Chicago Cardinals season

defunct NFL team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ2425268 ↗
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The 1936 Chicago Cardinals season marked the team's 17th year in the National Football League (NFL). The team failed to improve on their previous output of 6–4–2, winning only three games. Playing their first seven games on the road, they failed to qualify for the playoffs for the 11th consecutive season.

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Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.

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The public source identifies “1936 Chicago Cardinals season” as defunct NFL team season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chicago, Cardinals and season.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chicago, Cardinals and season providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1936 Chicago Cardinals season” 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.