Template:Did you know nominations/1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst talk 04:34, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game

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The "impossible formula" painted on a building

... that a professor said that Harvard's football team had been poisoned by the "impossible formula" of C6H0 (pictured) after Centre defeated them 6–0 in 1921? Source: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/football/2021/10/29/centre-college-upset-harvard-100-years-ago-today/8440391002/
- ALT1: ... that Centre's 1921 defeat of Harvard is widely considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history? Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44981258
- ALT2: ... that Harvard had not lost a varsity-level football game in nearly five years before their upset loss to Centre in 1921? Source: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/10.29.html
- ALT3: ... that after defeating Harvard in 1921, the Centre College football team was greeted by a homecoming party which included the governor of Kentucky? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-advocate-messenger-danville-messenge/81585269/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Frederick Murray Trotter
- Comment: Article ran at DYK on August 12, 2008, and should be eligible again per WP:DYKNEW since five years have passed and article was promoted to GA three days ago.

Improved to Good Article status by PCN02WPS (talk). Self-nominated at 15:05, 28 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

I've heard of this before. I'll review it. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:51, 30 January 2024 (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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work! Everything appears good. QPQ done. Image works. Although it did appear at DYK 16 years ago, I think you're right in that it is eligible to appear again. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:07, 30 January 2024 (UTC)