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1939 Buffalo Bulls football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ97738095 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1939 Buffalo Bulls football team was an American football team that represented the University of Buffalo as an independent during the 1939 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Jim Peele, the team compiled a 0–7 record. The team played its home games at Rotary Field in Buffalo, New York.

Buffalo was ranked at No. 529 in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1939 Buffalo Bulls football team” is american college football team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Buffalo, Bulls and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Buffalo, Bulls and football is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1939 Buffalo Bulls 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.