Ivy Bowl
American college football games in Japan
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The Ivy Bowl (also known as the Epson Ivy Bowl) was an international college football game played between an American, 43-man all-star team (composed of only Ivy League players) versus a team of college all-stars from Japan.[1] The first Epson Ivy Bowl occurred on January 8, 1989, and the final game occurred at the conclusion of the 1996 NCAA Division I-AA football season.[1] The United States won every match-up. The wins, because they were not between two NCAA-affiliated schools and some of the years were mixed school (all-star) teams[2][3][4][5] do not count toward official win–loss records.
Despite the fact that the College of William & Mary was not a member of the Ivy League, they were chosen to participate in the 1988 and 1992 seasons' Epson Ivy Bowls.[6] Long considered a "public ivy", William & Mary was the only true non-Ivy League school to send players to Japan.
Game results
| Game | Date | Winner | Score | Loser | Score | Venue | MVP | Fighting Spirit Award | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 8, 1989 | William & Mary | 73 | Japan All-Stars | 3 | Yokohama Stadium | |||
| 2 | December 23, 1989 | Ivy League All-Stars | 49 | Japan All-Stars | 17 | Yokohama Stadium | Rick McIntyre （Harvard） | Ryusei Kajiyama （Nihon） | [7] |
| 3 | December 24, 1990 | Ivy League All-Stars | 47 | Japan All-Stars | 10 | Yokohama Stadium | Steve Hooper （Penn） | Kazuyuki Shinbori （Hosei） | [8] |
| 4 | December 23, 1991 | Ivy League All-Stars | 24 | Japan All-Stars | 0 | Tokyo Dome | John Makunifu （Cornell） | jin Shirawachi （Meiji） | [9] |
| 5 | January 1, 1993 | Ivy League All-Stars | 68 | Japan All-Stars （excluding Nihon University） | 3 | Tokyo Dome | Matt Bashika （Dartmouth） | [10] | |
| William & Mary | 35 | Nihon[11] | 19 | Shawn Knight | |||||
| 6 | January 8, 1994 | Ivy League All-Stars | 31 | Japan All-Stars | 14 | Tokyo Dome | Jay Fiedler （Dartmouth） | Masafumi Kawaguchi （Ritsumeikan） | [12] |
| 7 | January 8, 1995 | Ivy League All-Stars | 20 | Japan All-Stars | 10 | Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium | Brian Bassett （Columbia） | Tetsuya Akiyama （Nihon） | [13] |
| 8 | January 7, 1996 | Ivy League All-Stars | 35 | Japan All-Stars | 16 | Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium | John Harper （Columbia） | Toru Kojima （Tokai） | [14] |
Game participants
1989
Source:[15]
Ivy League All-Stars
| Player | Position | College |
|---|---|---|
| Evan Parke | CB[16] | Cornell |
| Bryan Keys | RB | Penn |
| Steve Johnson | ||
| Matt Pollard | K | Columbia |
| Matt Less | TE | Columbia |
| Danny Clark | QB | Brown |
| Nick Stanham | WR | Dartmouth |
| Malcolm Glover | QB | Penn |
| John Francis | DB | Brown |
| Mark Bianchi | WR | Dartmouth |
| Frank Leal | DB | Princeton |
| Mark Ligos | LB | Penn |
| Dave Amodio | ||
| Steve Kapfer | LB | Brown |
| Judd Garrett | RB | Princeton |
| Rick McIntire | ||
| Rich Huff | DB | Yale |
| Chris Finn | ||
| Mike Holt | DB | Columbia |
| Jon Skinner | RB | Brown |
| Mike Ciotti | C | Yale |
| Franco Pagnanelli | Princeton | |
| Scott Wollam | DL | Yale |
| Harris Siskind | ||
| Dave Tauber | OL | Brown |
| Bob Surace | C | Princeton |
| Greg Gicewicz | DL | Harvard |
| Gerald Mahon | OL | Harvard |
| Kevin Luensmann | ||
| Glover Lawrence | DL | Yale |
| Steve Harrison | Brown | |
| Drew Fraser | ||
| Kevin Collins | ||
| Jim Griffin | TE | Yale |
| Dave Whaley | WR | Penn |
| Tom Parker | WR | Dartmouth |
| Pete Masloski | ||
| Mike Vollmer | ||
| Bob Paschall | DL | Columbia |
| Rich Puccio |
Coaches
- Maxie Baughan - Head Coach
- Johnny Unitas
- Pete Retzlaff
- Mark Baughan
Japan All-Stars
- Kuniaki Miura
- Ryota Watanabe
- Kenichi Kotani
- Shoji Sagawa
- Kenji Kato
- Kenji Udagawa
- Naritoshi Shibata
- Hiroyiki Takeda
- Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
- Naoji Matsuzaki
- Juichi Suzuki
- Kimihiro Tsuchiya
- Satoshi Iwata
- Seiji Funakoshi
- Yoshiki Hayami
- Minoru Hayashi
- Ryusei Kajiyama
- Hiroyuki Masuda
- Seigo Arimatsu
- Hajime Kobayashi
- Tetsuya Sadai
- Masaki Ogawa
- Kenji Suzuki
- Toshihiko Yamaguchi
- Yoshihito Itakura
- Satoki Kato
- Noriyuki Oshima
- Shigeo Yokata
- Tetsuro Kawano
- Kazunori Jinbo
- Takanori Nozawa
- Hirotaka Nanba
- Minoru Shiota
- Yoshihiro Iizuka
- Akira Imai
- Takayuki Ota
- Yoshinao Sugawara
- Masakazu Terashima
- Yuzo Ichijo
- Kei Nishiyama
- Manabu Kamoshida
- Katsuhiko Togo
- Makoto Ishii
- Nachi Abe
- Yasutomo Motohashi
- Atsushi Oyori
- Hiroshi Kashiwagi
- Toshihiro Moritomo
- Kichi Nishiyama
- Tomohiro Yanase
- Kazuho Suzuki
- Kenichiro Imada
- Masaaki Kitami
- Yuichi Shintaku
- Tsutomu Kusakabe
- Ryuta Tatsumi
- Maki Yoshida
- Tomohiro Tsuruta
- Hiroshi Fujii
- Motohide Takano
- Yasuhiro Kishimoto
- Koji Owada
- Masaichiro Kanamoto
- Tadashi Kaneko
- Takuya Otsuki
- Nobuharu Kondo
- Shinichi Yokote
- Koji Suzuki
- Sojiro Harada
- Kenichi Fujiwara
- Toshiei Seki
- Yosei Maeno
- Takao Asakura
- Takuya Iwasaki
- Atsuya Yoshizawa
- Shunji Mori
- Jun Simizu
- Shinji Maehara
- Iwao Yoshino
- Toshikazu Iino
- Kinya Shibayama