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1893 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ28444223 ↗
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The 1893 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the State University of Iowa ("S.U.I."), now commonly known as the University of Iowa, during the 1893 college football season. The season featured a new head coach in Ben "Sport" Donnelly. Like Edwin A. Dalton before him, Donnelly was only hired before the season to prepare and assemble the team. Donnelly was disliked compared to his predecessor but it did not stop Iowa from getting their first victory in the Western Interstate University Football Association (WIUFA) with a win over Missouri.

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“1893 Iowa Hawkeyes football team” enters the record as american college football team season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Iowa, Hawkeyes 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—1893—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Iowa, Hawkeyes and football.
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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 Jan 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28444223. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1893.

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This entry incorporates text from “1893 Iowa Hawkeyes 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.