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Bill Jones (Notre Dame football coach)

American football player and coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ65083378 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bill Jones was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Carroll College in Helena, Montana, from 1931 to 1932.

Prior to that, he was a player (1926 to 1927) and assistant coach (1929 to 1930) at the University of Notre Dame under head coach Knute Rockne.

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The public source identifies “Bill Jones (Notre Dame football coach)” as american football player and coach. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bill, Jones and Notre.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931, 1932, 1926, 1927—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bill, Jones and Notre providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q65083378. The first chronological checks are 1931, 1932, 1926 and 1927.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Jones (Notre Dame football coach)” 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.