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2. American football in Japan - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Rice Bowl - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Japan American Football Association - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. X-League (Japan) - Wikipedia

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   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 game.

6. List of Japanese collegiate American football programs

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   There are a total of eight leagues divided between East Japan (東日本) and West Japan (西日本). Each league has at least two tiers of program. Each league has at least two tiers of program. The top or first tier is the only one that sends teams to the post season tournament.

7. Paul Rusch - Wikipedia

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   The Paul Rusch Cup is awarded each year to the MVP of the Rice Bowl, Japan's own American Football national championship game. [4] Rusch was arrested in December 1941 immediately after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor. He was detained at a temporary prison camp on the campus of Sumire Girls' School on the outskirts of Tokyo and eventually ...

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9. Category:American football in Japan - Wikipedia

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