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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 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 Nihon Phoenix football program, established in 1940, represented Nihon University in college football from 1940 until 2023. A member of the Kantoh Collegiate American Football Association , Nihon Phoenix football was a powerhouse in Japan's college football along with the Kwansei Gakuin University Fighters for four decades.
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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.
The Japan American Football Association is governing body of Gridiron Football in Japan. Which oversees middle school, high school, collegiate, club, and even corporate teams. Since 1984, the JAFA has organized and sponsored the Rice Bowl, a championship game played between the college national champion and the X-League champion.
The Kantoh League is a major college football league in eastern Japan. The league is divided into seven divisions. The winner of the league goes on to play in the Koshien Bowl against a team from the West Japan. The winner of the bowl may advance to play the champion of the X-League in the Rice Bowl.
The Japan national American football team represents Japan in international American football competitions. The team is controlled by the Japan American Football Association, and has been one of the world's strongest international teams since it began participating regularly in international tournaments in the 1990s, and currently possesses the second most American Football World Cups [1 ...