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Go Tigers!

2001 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ5574936 ↗
Source-derived summary

Go Tigers! is a 2001 documentary film about the Washington High School Tigers of Massillon, Ohio, and its rivalry against the Canton McKinley High School Bulldogs of the same city. Written and directed by Kenneth A. Carlson, the film follows the team during the 1999 regular season. It features the players (mainly the co-captains), and follows them around the whole school year and tells all their stories.

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External links

Go Tigers! at IMDb

Go Tigers! at Rotten Tomatoes

Go Tigers!

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Go Tigers!” as 2001 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tigers and film.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tigers and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Go Tigers!”, the useful work is to connect “2001 film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5574936. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 1999.

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Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Go Tigers!” 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.