The 1971 Xavier Musketeers football team was an

American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...

team that represented

Xavier University Xavier University ( ) is a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Xavier had an enrollment of approximately 5,600 undergraduate an ...

as an independent during the

1971 NCAA University Division football season The 1971 NCAA University Division football season saw Coach Bob Devaney's Nebraska Cornhuskers repeat as national champions. Ranked a close second behind Notre Dame in the preseason poll, Nebraska moved up to first place the following week, rem ...

. In their second year under head coach

Dick Selcer Richard James Selcer (born August 22, 1937) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio from 1970 to 1971, compiling a record of 2–18. Head coaching ...

, the Musketeers compiled a 1–9 record.

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