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1978 UT Arlington Mavericks football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ105081673 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1978 UT Arlington Mavericks football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at Arlington in the Southland Conference during the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fifth year under head coach Harold Elliott, the team compiled a 5–6 record.

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The public source identifies “1978 UT Arlington Mavericks football team” as american college football season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arlington, Mavericks and football.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Arlington, Mavericks and football providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1978 UT Arlington Mavericks 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.