Talk:1947 Rose Bowl

(Metric) Conversion for American Football

 * (Copied from User talk:Lightmouse talk page)

Lightmouse, I think that your script is a really great idea for adding conversion units for SI. However, one particular subject, American Football is a "game of inches" and the field is marked in yards. Statistics are kept in yards. Although this is not international, this is the way the subject handles the measures. While I question whether the script should be used at all on North American sports subjects, I do understand the need for international audiences to grasp the concept of yards, feet and inches in terms of their own measurement systems. The script results for the 1947 Rose Bowl article are inappropriate in a number of instances, introducing a 9% error. A four yard run is more appropriately 366 centimeters, not four meters. and a 1 yard run is 91 centimeters, not 1 meter. My opinion is that in the subject, the most appropriate place for conversion was on the particular DYK statment: "UCLA's Al Hoisch returned Illinois kicker Don Maechtle’s kickoff 103 yards (94 m), establishing a Rose Bowl and UCLA team record". This establishes the length of the run in any context. Otherwise my opinion is that the conversion adds very little value in articles on this subject and should not be modified by an automated script. Thanks, Group29 (talk) 16:34, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Linescore Edit
Please use standard terminiology unless there is a good reason not to.

I replaced the word "converts" wherever it appears in the linescore with the word "kick".

Besides being standard, "kick" informs that the PAT resulted from a kick rather than a pass or a run. --NCDane (talk) 03:08, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I removed your comment on the article itself. The best place to start with an edict such as this is the WikiProject College football/Style Guide, Thanks Much, Group29 (talk) 00:24, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Also note, the original terminology was taken from the UCLA Football media guide. Group29 (talk) 00:28, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for removing comment from article.

Are you referring to the 1947 media guide? If so, ambiguous archaic earlier usage has been changed for the better.

Here is a box score example from the modern UCLA Official Athletic internet site, which uses the word "kick" in XP description:

http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/m-footbl/stats/2008-2009/utucla.html

Here is another box score example which also uses the word "rush" in XP description.

http://www.uclabruins.com/sports/m-footbl/stats/2008-2009/fsucla.html --NCDane (talk) 23:53, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Dead link
During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!


 * http://www.news-gazette.com/news/print/6/1947/01/02/illini_rout_ucla
 * In 1947 Rose Bowl on 2011-05-25 03:21:22, 404 Not Found
 * In 1947 Rose Bowl on 2011-06-04 16:46:07, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 16:46, 4 June 2011 (UTC)