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1978 Toronto Argonauts season

CFL team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ4578338 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1978 Toronto Argonauts finished in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with a 4–12 record and failed to make the playoffs.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1978 Toronto Argonauts season” as cFL team season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Toronto, Argonauts and season.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. 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 Toronto, Argonauts and season providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1978 Toronto Argonauts season”, the useful work is to connect “cFL team season” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4578338. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “1978 Toronto Argonauts season” 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.