Talk:Gardner Dow
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![]() | A fact from Gardner Dow appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by DanCherek (talk) 02:34, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
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- ... that Gardner Dow was the only American college football player to die of sports-related injuries in 1919? Source: The New York Tribune (Nov. 30, 1919): https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73277048/college-and-high-school-football-deaths
- ALT1:... that University of Connecticut college football player Gardner Dow died from head injuries sustained during a game in 1919? Source: The Hartford Courant (Mar. 29, 2014): https://www.courant.com/courant-250/moments-in-history/hc-250th-gardner-dow-killed-20140228-story.html
Created by Topshelver (talk). Self-nominated at 18:13, 12 March 2021 (UTC).
New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Quite the story, too. Hook facts check out to source and are both interesting, though I prefer ALT0. No textual issues. This one's ready. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:45, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
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