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1972 Eastern Michigan Hurons 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 authorityQ25135324 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1972 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team represented Eastern Michigan University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their sixth season under head coach Dan Boisture, the Hurons compiled a 6–4 record and outscored their opponents, 202 to 162. The team opened the season losing three of its first four games but ended the season with a 5–1 record in the final six games, including a 28–3 victory over Central Michigan.

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After the season

The following Hurons were selected in the 1973 NFL draft after the season.

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“1972 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team” enters the record as american college football team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eastern, Michigan and Hurons can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1972, 1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Eastern, Michigan and Hurons.
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“1972 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Eastern, Michigan and Hurons provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25135324. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1972 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “1972 Eastern Michigan Hurons 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.