Talk:1948 Cotton Bowl Classic

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The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by BorgQueen (talk) 11:25, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

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The Penn State 1948 Cotton Bowl Classic team.

• ... that the 1948 Cotton Bowl Classic was the first interracial bowl game in the United States, as it featured Penn State players Wallace Triplett and Dennis Hoggard? Source: https://www.blackhistory.psu.edu/timeline/first_interracial_football_game_is_played_at_the_cotton_bowl
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5x expanded by Timothy Holdiness (talk). Nominated by Ktkvtsh (talk) at 09:08, 24 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/1948 Cotton Bowl Classic; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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• New enough: - no
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Ktkvtsh: Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think this article is eligible since it fails the Newness criterion: it was not expanded 5-fold in the last seven days. The only edit in the last 7 days only made minor changes. Phlsph7 (talk) 10:43, 24 August 2023 (UTC)