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1952 New York Giants season

NFL team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ2664359 ↗
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The 1952 New York Giants season was the franchise's 28th season in the National Football League. The Giants finished tied for second place with the Philadelphia Eagles. The teams win loss record was 7 wins and 5 losses.

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

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1952 New York Giants season” is nFL team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through York, Giants and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, York, Giants and season is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1952 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.