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1980 Calgary Stampeders season

Canadian football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ16821701 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1980 Calgary Stampeders finished in third place in the Western Conference with a 9–7 record. They appeared in the Western Semi-Final where they lost to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

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The public source identifies “1980 Calgary Stampeders season” as canadian football team season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Calgary, Stampeders and season.

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—1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Calgary, Stampeders and season providing the first useful test.
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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 May 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16821701. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “1980 Calgary Stampeders 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.