The 1952 Wyoming Cowboys football team was an

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team that represented the

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as a member of the

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during the 1952 college football season. In their sixth and final season under head coach

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, the Cowboys compiled a 5–4 record (4–3 against Skyline opponents), finished fourth in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 114 to 102. In January 1953, Bowden Wyatt resigned as Wyoming's head football coach to accept the same post at the

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. In six years at Wyoming, Wyatt compiled a 39–17–1 record. He was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1997.

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