Talk:1955 Hillsdale Dales football team

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 09:59, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

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• 1955 Hillsdale Dales football team
• Nate Clark

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• ... that the undefeated 1955 Hillsdale Dales football team declined a Tangerine Bowl bid because the bowl insisted that four black players (including national scoring leader Nate Clark) stay home? Source: (1) "Nation's Leading Scorer Makes Little All-America: Nate Clark Of Hillsdale, Mich., Scored 144 Points This Year" (2) here ("Hillsdale turned down an invitation to play in the Tangerine Bowl in '55 after bowl officials said the school's four black players could not play in the game.") (3) ("When the team was invited that year to play at the Tangerine Bowl stadium in Orlando, Florida, they were told they had to leave all the black players behind because Southern bowl games wouldn’t allow them to play. In keeping with their values, the entire team declined the offer to play at a major stadium if they could not take the whole team."), (4) "A Better Kind of Glory" (2021 documentary about the decision to decline the Tangerine Bowl bid)
  

or split into separate hooks as follows

• alt 1a ... that a 2021 documentary told the story of the 1955 Hillsale Dales declining to play in the Tangerine Bowl bid after the bowl insisted that four black players stay home? Same sources as alt0
• alt 1b ... that Nate Clark led college football in 1955 with 144 points scored but was not allowed to play in a Southern bowl game because he was black? same sources as alt0
• Reviewed: Hans Clemens + Falcon Lake Incident

Created by Cbl62 (talk). Self-nominated at 06:13, 14 November 2021 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work on both articles. I think the combination hook is pretty interesting, so I'll approve that. Epicgenius (talk) 14:02, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

ALT0 to T:DYK/P2