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1912 Brown Bears football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ22021908 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1912 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University as an independent during the 1912 college football season. Led by 11th-year head coach Edward N. Robinson, Brown compiled a record of 6–4.

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“1912 Brown Bears football team” enters the record as american college football team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brown, Bears and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Brown, Bears and football.
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“1912 Brown Bears football team” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Brown, Bears and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Feb 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22021908. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “1912 Brown Bears 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.