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2015 Columbia Lions football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ19866775 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2015 Columbia Lions football team represented Columbia University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first year head coach Al Bagnoli and played their home games at Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium. They were a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 2–8, 1–6 in Ivy League play to finish a tie for seventh place. Columbia averaged 5,988 fans per game.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2015 Columbia Lions football team” is american college football team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Columbia, Lions and football, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Columbia, Lions and football is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2015 Columbia Lions 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.