Talk:1964 Long Beach Vikings football team

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Cbl62, little typo in the article name here as "football" is misspelled. More substantively, I wonder if "Long Beach City Vikings" should be the naming scheme. Note that the category for the team is Category:Long Beach City Vikings football. And compare with Long Beach State.

Also, the October 24 game was against Los Angeles Valley College, not San Fernando Valley (California State University, Northridge); see 1964 Valley State Matadors football team, who played Long Beach State on the same day. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:43, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jweiss11: Here's what I found on article naming based on a Newspapers.com search for the years 1950-1970:

"long beach vikings" - 713 views

"long beach city college vikings" - 552 views

"long beach city vikings" - 476 matches

Cbl62 (talk) 03:18, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jw -- I am not necessarily against renaming. Do you think that all of the "City College" teams should be referre to as "__ City __s"? Or only in certain cases? With what criteria? Cbl62 (talk) 14:18, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cbl62, thanks for doing those searches. The results don't give us an obvious answer about the common name. It also possible that the common named changed over time. I'm mostly concerned about differentiating pairs of similarly named colleges and junior colleges, e.g. Long Beach State 49ers vs. Long Beach Vikings, San Diego Toreros vs. San Diego Junior College Knights, Los Angeles State Diablos vs. Los Angeles City Cubs, Los Angeles Valley Monarchs vs. Valley State Matadors, Fresno State Bulldogs vs. Fresno Junior College Rams, etc. Jweiss11 (talk) 16:18, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Since the teams have different nicknames, that disambiguates the articles themselves, but your suggestion might help to provide clarity in the standings templates and opponent schedules, so I am fine with the proposed move. Cbl62 (talk) 21:06, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]