Template:Did you know nominations/Hank Crisp

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 22:27, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Hank Crisp

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• ... that prior to his long coaching career, Hank Crisp was a member of the football, basketball and baseball teams at VPI in spite of not having a right hand?

• Reviewed: 1910 Michigan Wolverines football team

Created/expanded by Patriarca12 (talk). Self nom at 16:45, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

• Article size is fine with copious references. It was created relatively recently, and the hook turns out to be confirmed in the article and in the newspaper references. However instead of VPI, how about Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and most of our readers will not know what VPI means. So I am proposing a slight hook variation:

alt1 ... that prior to his coaching career, Hank Crisp was a member of the football, basketball and baseball teams at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in spite of not having a right hand?

• I had to take out long to fit it under 200 characters. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:12, 6 May 2012 (UTC)