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Turkey Bowl (amateur), nickname for informal backyard American football games held on Thanksgiving or over Thanksgiving weekend; Turkey bowling, a sport involving bowling with turkeys as bowling balls and soda bottles as pins; Impact Turkey Bowl, a special tournament that was aired on the Thanksgiving night episode of Impact!
Thanksgiving Day football games in the United States are nearly as old as the game—and the organized holiday—themselves. The first Thanksgiving Day football game took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day of 1869, less than two weeks after Rutgers defeated Princeton in New Brunswick, New Jersey in what is widely recognized as the first intercollegiate football game in the ...
Several other NFL teams played regularly on Thanksgiving in the first eighteen years of the league, including the Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals (1922–33; the Bears played the Lions from 1934 to 1938 while the Cardinals switched to the Green Bay Packers for 1934 and 1935), Frankford Yellow Jackets, Pottsville Maroons, Buffalo All-Americans, Canton Bulldogs (even after the team moved to ...
Nov. 18—As Leon Sheffield Magnet Elementary students played their annual touch-football game on Friday, STEM teacher Heather Coon reminisced about the origins of a tradition that started more ...
Dunbar 40-31 1996: Cardozo Anacostia 36-32 1997: H.D. Woodson Anacostia 26-22 1998: Dunbar Theodore Roosevelt 28-20 1999: Dunbar Eastern 22-0 2000: Dunbar Ballou 35-12 2001: Dunbar H.D. Woodson 16-14 2002: H.D. Woodson Dunbar 19-3 2003: Dunbar Ballou 33-20 2004: Dunbar H.D. Woodson [3] 33-0 2005: Dunbar Coolidge 43-14 2006: Ballou Dunbar 34-33 ...
The 1924 game was the first in the series and it is considered the first black college football classic. [6] Tuskegee refused tournament slots for the NCAA Division II National Football Championship because the Division II playoffs conflict with the Turkey Day Classic; the Golden Tigers program did this even in successful seasons where it has qualified and earned high playoff seeding.
The 1991 Copper Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 31, 1991, at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona. The game featured the Indiana Hoosiers and the Baylor Bears. In the first quarter, Indiana quarterback Trent Green scored on a 1-yard touchdown run making it 7–0 Indiana. In the second quarter, Indiana got a 27 ...
Here's a look at the history of the Pop-Tarts Bowl and game results: Blockbuster Bowl (Miami) Dec. 28, 1990: Florida State 24, Penn State 17. Dec. 28, 1991: Alabama 30, Colorado 25.