Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
American football was introduced in the early 1930s, when Paul Rusch, a teacher and missionary from Kentucky, who came to Japan in 1925 to help rebuild following the 1923 earthquake, George Marshall, an athletic teacher at Tokyo based Rikkyo University, and two military attaches at the US embassy, Alexander George and Merritt Booth, helped to form the first football teams at three universities ...
The two semifinal winners would meet for the league championship in the Japan X Bowl held at the Tokyo Dome. Since 1987, Japan X Bowl has decided the X League championship. Until 2002, it was known as the Tokyo Super Bowl. The winner of this game goes on to the Rice Bowl to face the winner of the Koshien Bowl, the national college championship ...
The Japan Championship Rice Bowl is an annual American football national championship game held in Japan every January 3 that determines the champion of the X-League. The game was originally a collegiate all-star game until 1983. From 1984 to 2021, the game matched the champions of the Japan X Bowl with the college Koshien Bowl winners. The ...
The Koshien Bowl (甲子園ボウル) is the annual Japanese American college football national championship game, [1] usually played in December at Koshien Stadium.. From the 1949 season until 2008 season, the game was held as the final game of Japan University American Football Championship.
X-League (Japan), an American football league based in Japan that was founded in 1971; X-League Indoor Football, an indoor American football league that played in 2014–2015; Xleague.tv, a UK broadcast production unit that operated during 2007–2009; X League (women's football), a women's American football league that began play in 2022
The Ivy Bowl (also known as the Epson Ivy Bowl) was an international college football game played between an American, 43-man all-star team (composed of only Ivy League players) versus a team of college all-stars from Japan. [1]
The Obic Seagulls are an American football team located in the Narashino, Chiba, Japan.They are a member of the X-League.The Obic Seagulls have won over 17 championships during their team history (8 Rice Bowl championships and 9 Japan X Bowl championships) the most of any American football team in Japan.
The Japan American Football Association (JAFA) is the governing body of gridiron football in Japan which oversees middle school, high school, collegiate, club, and even corporate teams. It was founded in 1934.