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1976 NCAA Division I soccer tournament

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4577222 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1976 NCAA Division I soccer tournament was the 18th annual tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the national men's college soccer champion among its Division I members in the United States.

The final match was played at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 5.

Defending champions San Francisco won their third national title, defeating Indiana in the championship game, 1–0.

Qualifying

No teams made their debut appearances in the NCAA Division I soccer tournament this year.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1976 NCAA Division I soccer tournament” as football tournament season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where NCAA, Division and soccer can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football tournament season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Apr 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4577222. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “1976 NCAA Division I soccer tournament” 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.