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1951 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ97354696 ↗
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The 1951 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team was an American football team that represented South Dakota State University in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1951 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Ralph Ginn, the team compiled a 8–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 311 to 105.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1951 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team” is american college football season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through South, Dakota and State, 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—1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, South, Dakota and State is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1951 South Dakota State Jackrabbits 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.