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2016 Wagner Seahawks 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 authorityQ24207119 ↗
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The 2016 Wagner Seahawks football team represented Wagner College in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC). They were led by second-year head coach Jason Houghtaling and played their home games at Wagner College Stadium. They were Wagner finished the season 6–5 overall and 4–2 in NEC play to tie for third place.

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The public source identifies “2016 Wagner Seahawks football team” as american college football team season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wagner, Seahawks and football.

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This entry incorporates text from “2016 Wagner Seahawks 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.