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1956 Rhode Island Rams football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ104847456 ↗
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The 1956 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented the University of Rhode Island as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1956 college football season. In its first season under head coach Herb Maack, the team compiled a 2–6 record (1–4 against conference opponents), finished in sixth/last place out of six teams in the Yankee Conference, and was outscored by a total of 235 to 87. The team played its home games at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island.

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“1956 Rhode Island Rams football team” enters the record as american college football season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rhode, Island and Rams can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1956 Rhode Island Rams 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.