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The result was redirect to Chicago Maroons football. Daniel (talk) 07:43, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2014 Chicago Maroons football team[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:NSEASONS. The University of Chicago fielded a major football program from the 1890s until the 1930s. The school then disbanded its football program for 23 years. While football did return in the 1960s, it has not in the past 60 years been played at a major college level. (The Maroons play in Division III -- the lowest level recognized by the NCAA.) This article is an outlier -- the only stand-alone article for a UC football team covering the post-major era. The article lacks independent sourcing, and my WP:BEFORE searches found no significant coverage for the 2014 team in any independent sources (not even local Chicago papers). Finally, even at the Division III level, the 2014 Chicago team was not ranked and was not among the 32 teams participating in the Division III playoffs. Cbl62 (talk) 17:19, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Cbl62 (talk) 17:23, 8 February 2021 (UTC) [reply]

• Note: Prior articles on modern Chicago football seasons have been deleted. See AfD: 2016 Chicago Maroons football team and AfD: 2012 Chicago Maroons football team. Cbl62 (talk) 17:29, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2021 February 8. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 17:33, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 17:41, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Chicago Maroons football per WP:NSEASONS and as an ATD. Could be a plausible search term. Etzedek24 ^{(I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record)} 18:00, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:08, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge and Redirect a useful term for searching. Once upon a time, this storied football program was the best in the land. Today it is still a good program in its own right, but not on the level that we typically hold out as a "season-to-season" article collection. Typically "season" articles for this level of play are not included (although there are exceptions). It does look like a nice season result-wise, maybe if we find additional sources.--Paul McDonald (talk) 20:00, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect per above, as WP:NSEASONS says can be done with non-notable individual seasons. Smartyllama (talk) 19:41, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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