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Toledo Cup

College Football Award

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ114119577 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Toledo Cup was a trophy presented in the United States from 1934 to 1936 to the college football team recognized as national champions by a group of 250 sports editors from newspapers across the country.

The poll's rules stated that the first team to win the traveling trophy three times would retain permanent possession of the cup. The Minnesota Golden Gophers were promptly voted No. 1 for 1934, 1935, and 1936 and claimed the trophy. The Toledo Cup is currently displayed in the lobby of the Gibson-Nagurski Athletic Center at the University of Minnesota.

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“Toledo Cup” enters the record as college Football Award. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Toledo, College and Football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1934, 1936, 1935—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Toledo, College and Football.
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“Toledo Cup” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Toledo, College and Football provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q114119577. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1934, 1936 and 1935.

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This entry incorporates text from “Toledo Cup” 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.