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1982 Weber State Wildcats football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ131314556 ↗
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The 1982 Weber State Wildcats football team represented Weber State College (now known as Weber State University) as a member of the Big Sky Conference during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by second-year head coach Mike Price, the Wildcats compiled an overall record of 4–7, with a mark of 2–5 in conference play, and finished seventh in the Big Sky.

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“1982 Weber State Wildcats football team” enters the record as american college football season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Weber, State and Wildcats can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1982—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Weber, State and Wildcats.
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This entry incorporates text from “1982 Weber 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.