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1979 Kansas State Wildcats football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ4578732 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1979 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head football coach was Jim Dickey. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium. 1979 saw the wildcats finish with a record of 3–8, and a 1–6 record in Big Eight Conference play.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1979 Kansas State Wildcats football team” is american college football team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kansas, State and Wildcats, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kansas, State and Wildcats is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jun 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4578732. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “1979 Kansas State Wildcats 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.