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1946 California Golden Bears football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ28447286 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1946 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1946 college football season. In their only season under head coach Frank Wickhorst, the Golden Bears compiled a 2–7 record (1–6 in PCC, eighth) and were outscored 169 to 112. Seven games were played on campus at California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, California.

California was ranked at No. 79 in the final Litkenhous Difference by Score System rankings for 1946.

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After the season

The 1947 NFL draft was held on December 16, 1946. The following Golden Bears were selected.

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The public source identifies “1946 California Golden Bears football team” as american college football team season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around California, Golden and Bears.

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—1946, 1947—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with California, Golden and Bears providing the first useful test.
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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 Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28447286. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1946 and 1947.

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This entry incorporates text from “1946 California Golden 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.