Template:Did you know nominations/1886 Navy Midshipmen football team


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The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 12:11, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

1886 Navy Midshipmen football team

 * ... that in 1886, the United States Naval Academy football team beat close rival Johns Hopkins with a last-second double lateral?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sumner Howard, John C. Shields
 * Comment: This is a WikiCup nomination

Created by A Texas Historian (talk). Self nominated at 00:21, 11 February 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg New enough, long enough, and free of any significant policy issues (it is neutral, well cited with inline citations [although I am accepting the majority, which reference books to which I do not have access, in good faith], and free of any detectable copyright violations [the extended quotation is from a contemporary newspaper article which, being published in the US in 1886, is in the public domain and thus not any sort of copyright issue]). The hook is short enough, certainly interesting, and properly cited with an inline citation, although it is to a book source that I am unable to independently verify and am thus accepting in good faith. Also, QPQ has been done. Everything looks good to me; good to go, accepting the majority of the references in good faith. Nice work! Michael Barera (talk) 03:44, 14 February 2015 (UTC)