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1954 Southern Illinois Salukis football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ97366737 ↗
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The 1954 Southern Illinois Salukis football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) in the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) during the 1954 college football season. Under third-year head coach William O'Brien, the team compiled a 2–7 record. The team played its home games at McAndrew Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois.

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NFL draft

The following Saluki was selected in the 1955 NFL draft following the season.

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“1954 Southern Illinois Salukis football team” enters the record as american college football team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Southern, Illinois and Salukis can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1954 Southern Illinois Salukis 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.