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1945 Wilberforce Green Wave football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ113022777 ↗
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The 1945 Wilberforce Green Wave football team was an American football team that represented Wilberforce University in the Midwest Athletic Association (MWAA) during the 1945 college football season. In its 10th season under head coach Gaston F. Lewis, the team compiled a 6–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 177 to 85.

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The public source identifies “1945 Wilberforce Green Wave football team” as american college football season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wilberforce, Green and Wave.

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—1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wilberforce, Green and Wave providing the first useful test.
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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 Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113022777. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1945.

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This entry incorporates text from “1945 Wilberforce Green Wave 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.