00:3500:35, 16 June 2024diffhist+13
Don Buckey
→College career: tweaks and wikilinks to the actual games; just read a profile of them in a 1976 Japanese magazine about their participation in the inaugural Japan Bowl all-star game
17:0117:01, 28 May 2024diffhist+149
Coca-Cola Classic (college football)
→Background: sorry to keep dunking on that source, but added one more game before the supposed "first football game in the western hemisphere" -- I didn't bother to include the
Atom Bowl which also involved Americans, or a 1930s visit by PCC all-stars led by a USC player.
16:5916:59, 28 May 2024diffhist+939
Coca-Cola Classic (college football)
→Background: had to correct this massively incorrect information. Adding a primary, trustworthy sources to cover the basics. That existing source is only valid for the proof that a game occurred in 1976, anything else was done without any fact checking.
01:2801:28, 25 May 2024diffhist+30
Rice Bowl
→X-League vs College Era Results: Based on the history of the Panasonic Impulse on Japanese Wikipedia, the team was the "Panasonic Electric Works Impulse" from 2008 until simplifying to the current Panasonic Impulse in 2011.
00:3500:35, 16 June 2024diffhist+13
Don Buckey
→College career: tweaks and wikilinks to the actual games; just read a profile of them in a 1976 Japanese magazine about their participation in the inaugural Japan Bowl all-star game
17:0117:01, 28 May 2024diffhist+149
Coca-Cola Classic (college football)
→Background: sorry to keep dunking on that source, but added one more game before the supposed "first football game in the western hemisphere" -- I didn't bother to include the
Atom Bowl which also involved Americans, or a 1930s visit by PCC all-stars led by a USC player.
16:5916:59, 28 May 2024diffhist+939
Coca-Cola Classic (college football)
→Background: had to correct this massively incorrect information. Adding a primary, trustworthy sources to cover the basics. That existing source is only valid for the proof that a game occurred in 1976, anything else was done without any fact checking.
01:2801:28, 25 May 2024diffhist+30
Rice Bowl
→X-League vs College Era Results: Based on the history of the Panasonic Impulse on Japanese Wikipedia, the team was the "Panasonic Electric Works Impulse" from 2008 until simplifying to the current Panasonic Impulse in 2011.