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Keep I am not shocked that a head college football coach from 1919 fails the "google" test. Typically, we find that head college football coaches generate enough press to pass
WP:GNG--
Paul McDonald (
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15:17, 17 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment He apparently became head coach two years after lettering at Iowa and coached at Luther for two years. It's not clear at all to me that two years coaching at a division III school affords automatic notability. It is mentioned as being enough at
WP:CFBCOACH, but it's not part of
WP:NGRIDIRON.
Papaursa (
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17:05, 23 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep Head football coaches as schools that are now Division III tend to be notable in this era, as college football was not differentiated into divisions then.
Jweiss11 (
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17:45, 23 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Plus, the NFL didn't form until the next year and then it was a regional event--college-level football was the highest expression of the sport at the time.--
Paul McDonald (
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19:41, 23 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. I did my best to beef up the article. Regrettably, my searches turn up zero in terms of significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. In fact, nothing even close. When Jewell was the coach for three months in 1919, Luther College was a very small college (a total student body of only 217 students in 1919 per the book cited in the article at p. 203). My searches also fail to turn up significant coverage of the 1919 Luther football team. The two principal sources included in the article currently are not "independent", consisting of a book written by the the Luther College faculty and a paid death notice (which tellingly doesn't even mention his having been either a football player or coach). I am afraid we have truly reached the outermost limits of college football coach notability.
Cbl62 (
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13:46, 24 February 2019 (UTC)reply
delete There is this mention a
[1] in Hawkeye Legends, Lists, & Lore, it lists every injury sustained by the team in the 1917-18 season; our Walter broke his collarbone. I ran a Proquest news search on "Walter jewell" + football, and came up empty. It is a common name, which makes him harder to find, so there should be no prejudice against creating an article if someone in future can source him.
E.M.Gregory (
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16:14, 4 March 2019 (UTC)reply
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Keep I am not shocked that a head college football coach from 1919 fails the "google" test. Typically, we find that head college football coaches generate enough press to pass
WP:GNG--
Paul McDonald (
talk)
15:17, 17 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment He apparently became head coach two years after lettering at Iowa and coached at Luther for two years. It's not clear at all to me that two years coaching at a division III school affords automatic notability. It is mentioned as being enough at
WP:CFBCOACH, but it's not part of
WP:NGRIDIRON.
Papaursa (
talk)
17:05, 23 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep Head football coaches as schools that are now Division III tend to be notable in this era, as college football was not differentiated into divisions then.
Jweiss11 (
talk)
17:45, 23 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Plus, the NFL didn't form until the next year and then it was a regional event--college-level football was the highest expression of the sport at the time.--
Paul McDonald (
talk)
19:41, 23 February 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. I did my best to beef up the article. Regrettably, my searches turn up zero in terms of significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. In fact, nothing even close. When Jewell was the coach for three months in 1919, Luther College was a very small college (a total student body of only 217 students in 1919 per the book cited in the article at p. 203). My searches also fail to turn up significant coverage of the 1919 Luther football team. The two principal sources included in the article currently are not "independent", consisting of a book written by the the Luther College faculty and a paid death notice (which tellingly doesn't even mention his having been either a football player or coach). I am afraid we have truly reached the outermost limits of college football coach notability.
Cbl62 (
talk)
13:46, 24 February 2019 (UTC)reply
delete There is this mention a
[1] in Hawkeye Legends, Lists, & Lore, it lists every injury sustained by the team in the 1917-18 season; our Walter broke his collarbone. I ran a Proquest news search on "Walter jewell" + football, and came up empty. It is a common name, which makes him harder to find, so there should be no prejudice against creating an article if someone in future can source him.
E.M.Gregory (
talk)
16:14, 4 March 2019 (UTC)reply
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