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1981 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ105474428 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1981 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team was an American football team that represented Northeast Louisiana University (now known as the University of Louisiana at Monroe) as an independent during the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first year under head coach Pat Collins, the team compiled a 5–6 record.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1981 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team” as american college football 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—1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Northeast, Louisiana and Indians can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as american college football season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Mar 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105474428. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “1981 Northeast Louisiana Indians 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.