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1949 New York Giants season

NFL team 25th season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ2661111 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1949 New York Giants season was the franchise's 25th season in the National Football League. The Giants finished in sole possession of 3rd place with a record of 6 wins and 6 losses.

NFL draft

Regular season

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Standings

Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.

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“1949 New York Giants season” enters the record as nFL team 25th season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what York, Giants and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around York, Giants and season.
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This entry incorporates text from “1949 New York Giants season” 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.