Template:Did you know nominations/Buddy Alliston


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:53, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Buddy Alliston

 * ... that Buddy Alliston won the 1958 Shrimp Bowl with the Eglin Air Force Base football team after pausing his professional career to join the military? Source: "Air Force Defeats Army For Title"
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5x expanded by BU Rob13 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:21, 19 February 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Article is well-sourced and neutral. It was expanded 5x recently. The hook is 165 characters. There's a couple of issues with the hook. Firstly, I was unable to find anywhere in the wiki article or the source provided that Alliston led the Eglin Air Force Base team. Secondly, the only source that says Alliston played for the team actually misspells it as "Elgin". Is there any other source for this claim? The second issue is probably not a big deal, but could the nom please clarify the "led" part? I'm not a sports expert, but I thought that "led" could only be used for team captains?VR talk  06:20, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Here, "led" is used as the best word that describes a better-than-average player playing for the team in a non-wordy way, but I'll have a go at rewording. (As a piece of speculation, he probably also literally led the team, as he certainly would have had the most experience of anyone on the team as a former professional player, but I meant it more figuratively.) As far as the source goes, I'm aware of the typo, but it's the only military base with a name similar to Elgin. We even redirect Elgin Air Force Base to the correct article on-wiki. It's obvious what the article meant. Here's another source supporting it: . ~ Rob 13 Talk 06:30, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok, that looks better.VR talk  16:27, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
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