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1989 Long Beach State 49ers football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ22095641 ↗
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The 1989 Long Beach State 49ers football team represented California State University, Long Beach during the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season.

Cal State Long Beach competed in the Big West Conference. The team was led by third-year head coach Larry Reisbig, and played home games at Veterans Stadium on the campus of Long Beach City College in Long Beach, California. They finished the season with a record of four wins and eight losses (4–8, 2–5 Big West). The 49ers offense scored 246 points while the defense allowed 407 points.

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The public source identifies “1989 Long Beach State 49ers football team” as american college football team season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Long, Beach and State.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Long, Beach and State providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1989 Long Beach State 49ers 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.