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1987 Virginia Cavaliers football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ55264472 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1987 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cavaliers were led by sixth-year head coach George Welsh and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in second.

Editorial summary

“1987 Virginia Cavaliers football team” enters the record as american college football team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Virginia, Cavaliers and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Virginia, Cavaliers and football.
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Why this record matters

“1987 Virginia Cavaliers football team” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Virginia, Cavaliers and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55264472. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1987.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “1987 Virginia Cavaliers 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.