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1970 Virginia Cavaliers football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ55264548 ↗
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The 1970 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Cavaliers were led by sixth-year head coach George Blackburn and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in last. At the conclusion of the season, Blackburn was fired as head coach. He had a record of 28–33–0 at Virginia, with just one winning season, in 1968.

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The public source identifies “1970 Virginia Cavaliers football team” as american college football team season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Virginia, Cavaliers and football.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Virginia, Cavaliers and football providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1970 Virginia Cavaliers 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.