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1997 Norfolk State Spartans football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ135976663 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1997 Norfolk State Spartans football team represented Norfolk State University as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) during the 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Darnell Moore, the Spartans compiled an overall record of 3–7.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1997 Norfolk State Spartans 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—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Norfolk, State and Spartans 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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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 Mar 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q135976663. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “1997 Norfolk State Spartans 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.