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Stephen Grenda

Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football coach (1910-1971)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2024
Entity authorityQ7609361 ↗
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Stephen J. Grenda (May 23, 1910 – September 21, 1971) was an American college football head coach who was Delaware football program's eighteenth head coach. He led them to a 4–12 overall record in two seasons.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Stephen Grenda” is delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football coach (1910-1971). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Stephen, Grenda and Delaware, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1910, 1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1910-05-23. For this dossier, Stephen, Grenda and Delaware is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Stephen Grenda” 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.