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1955 Wyoming Cowboys 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 authorityQ4568508 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1955 Wyoming Cowboys football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wyoming as a member of the Skyline Conference during the 1955 college football season. In their third year under head coach Phil Dickens, the Cowboys compiled an 8-3 record (5–2 against Skyline opponents), finished fourth in the conference, defeated Texas Tech in the 1956 Sun Bowl, and outscored opponents by a total of 225 to 137. They played their home games at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyoming.

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1955 team players in the NFL

The following were selected in the 1956 NFL draft.

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The public source identifies “1955 Wyoming Cowboys football team” as american college football team season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wyoming, Cowboys and football.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 1956—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wyoming, Cowboys and football providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1955 Wyoming Cowboys 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.