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The 1936 NYU Violets football team was an
American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
team that represented
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as an independent during the
1936 college football season The 1936 college football season was the first in which the Associated Press writers' poll selected a national champion. The first AP poll, taken of 35 writers, was released on October 20, 1936. Each writer listed his choice for the top ten teams ...
. In their third year under head coach
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, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record.


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NYU New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-United States Secretary of the Treasu ...
NYU Violets football seasons
NYU Violets football The NYU Violets football team represented the New York University Violets in college football. History NYU began play in 1873, making it one of the first football teams established in the United States (following Princeton, Rutgers, Columbia, Y ...
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