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1944 Miami Redskins football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ28447868 ↗
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The 1944 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University as an independent during the 1944 college football season. In its first season under head coach Sid Gillman, Miami compiled an 8–1 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 185 to 74. The team won its first eight games before losing to DePauw (7–13). Ned Shiflett was the team captain.

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“1944 Miami Redskins football team” enters the record as american college football team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Miami, Redskins and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1944 Miami Redskins 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.