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1937 Upper Iowa Peacocks football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ112623169 ↗
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The 1937 Upper Iowa Peacocks football team was an American football team that represented Upper Iowa University as a member of the Iowa Conference during the 1937 college football season. In their 29th season under head coach John "Doc" Dorman, the Peacocks compiled a 6–0 record, shared the Iowa Conference championship with St. Ambrose, and outscored opponents by a total of 122 to 26.

The team played its home games on Dorman Field in Fayette, Iowa.

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“1937 Upper Iowa Peacocks football team” enters the record as american college football season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Upper, Iowa and Peacocks can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1937 Upper Iowa Peacocks 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.