Template:Did you know nominations/1960 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

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The result was: promoted by Carabinieri (talk) 04:53, 4 March 2013 (UTC).

1960 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

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• ... that the 51 points scored by the 1960 Alabama football team against Furman were the most since they scored 61 against Syracuse in the 1953 Orange Bowl?

• ALT1: ... that the 1960 Alabama football team was denied a request by the SEC commissioner to allow for a "sudden death" overtime period in the event of a tie in their game against Georgia Tech?
• Reviewed: Jordan Poyer.
• Comment: Expanded from redirect

5x expanded by Patriarca12 (talk). Self nom at 22:18, 10 February 2013 (UTC).

• 5x expansion verified. New enough, long enough, well-referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. ALT1 seems hookier to me and is verified. However, I would write it this way, using the active rather than passive voice:
• ALT2: ... that the SEC commissioner denied a request by the 1960 Alabama football team to allow for a "sudden death" overtime period in the event of a tie in their game against Georgia Tech? Yoninah (talk) 22:11, 3 March 2013 (UTC)