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1944 Minter Field Fliers football team

College football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ118904200 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1944 Minter Field Fliers football team represented the United States Army Air Forces' Minter Field, located near Bakersfield, California, during the 1944 college football season. Led by head coach Jim Dildy, the Fliers compiled a record 3–3.

In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Minter Field ranked 114th among the nation's college and service teams and 19th out of 63 United States Army teams with a rating of 68.0.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1944 Minter Field Fliers football team” is college football season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Minter, Field and Fliers, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1944—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Minter, Field and Fliers is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q118904200. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1944.

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This entry incorporates text from “1944 Minter Field Fliers 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.