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1926 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team

American college football season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ22097098 ↗
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The 1926 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma A&M College—now known as Oklahoma State University–Stillwater—as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1926 college football season. Led by sixth-year head coach John Maulbetsch, the Cowboys compiled an overall record of 3–4–1 with a mark of 3–0–1in conference play, winning the MVC title. Oklahoma A&M played home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1926 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys football team” as american college football season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1926—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Oklahoma, Cowboys and football can be independently traced.
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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 Feb 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22097098. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1926.

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This entry incorporates text from “1926 Oklahoma A&M Cowboys 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.