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The game resumed in 1928 and was played continuously on Thanksgiving Day through 1974. While not the only Thanksgiving football game in Missouri during its early existence, the state's high school athletic commission shut down most others (one prominent example being the Mineral Water Bowl in Excelsior Springs [1]) after 1950, while leaving the Kirkwood–Webster Groves game intact.
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 NFL's tradition of playing on Thanksgiving Day dates back to the league's inception in 1920, and since 1934, it has featured the Detroit Lions playing at home. The Dallas Cowboys joined the ...
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 ...
Ahead of Turkey Day on Nov. 28, PEOPLE caught up with several WAGs across the six teams playing on Thanksgiving this year for an inside look at the unique ways they celebrate the holiday around ...
5 factors besides turkey that cause sleepiness after Thanksgiving Turkey is just one piece of the "food coma" pie (pun intended). Several other factors contribute to post-Thanksgiving fatigue:
Perhaps no food is more synonymous with Thanksgiving than turkey. Not only is it the centerpiece of millions of holiday tables every year, it’s also the focal point of Norman Rockwell’s famous ...
Alexander Hamilton proclaimed that "no citizen of the United States should refrain from turkey on Thanksgiving Day", [18] [19] and Benjamin Franklin had high regard for the wild turkey as an American icon. [20] [21] As Thanksgiving Day rose in popularity during the 1800s, so too did the turkey. By 1857, turkey had become part of the traditional ...