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1955 Baltimore Colts season

3rd season in franchise history

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ2787834 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1955 Baltimore Colts season was the third season for the team in the National Football League. The Baltimore Colts finished the National Football League's 1955 season with a record of 5 wins, 6 losses and 1 tie and finished fourth in the Western Conference.

Regular season

Schedule

Standings

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

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1955 Baltimore Colts season” is 3rd season in franchise history. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Baltimore, Colts and season, 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—1955, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Baltimore, Colts and season is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2787834. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1955 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “1955 Baltimore Colts 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.