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Disney's Wide World of Sports Spirit Award

American college football award

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ5282407 ↗
Source-derived summary

Disney's Wide World of Sports Spirit Award is presented annually to college football's most inspirational individual or team. The award is one of 21 that are part of the National College Football Awards Association (NCFAA).

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“Disney's Wide World of Sports Spirit Award” enters the record as american college football award. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Disney's, Wide and World can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 35-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Disney's, Wide and World.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5282407. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Disney's Wide World of Sports Spirit Award” 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.