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Stanford University
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Reviewer: Toa Nidhiki05 ( talk · contribs) 19:38, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
I will be reviewing this article. Toa Nidhiki05 19:38, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Overall, this list is on a very interesting and mostly unknown topic to most casual football fans. Very good readability and information.
*The page needs to be renamed to "1906-17 Stanford rugby teams" to comply with the MOS for article titles.
*Canada and Australia need to be linked.
*Might want to change "Australia national teams" to "Australian national teams".
*No need for parenthesis around "Due to World War I".
*Split "and by 1905, as many as 18 deaths were attributed to the game" into its own sentence. Currently the whole thing runs a bit long. Speaking of which, the latter part of that page is not really correct - the total of 18 deaths is for 1905 alone. It might be useful to note that 159 players were 'seriously injured' as well.
*Take out the 'to' in front of 'Canada'
*"The pressure at California was stronger (especially as the school had not been as successful in the Big Game as they had hoped), and in 1915, California returned to football." remove the comma after '1915'.
*"Stanford played its 1915, 1916, and 1917 "Big Games" as rugby against Santa Clara while California's football "Big Game" in those years was against Washington; but both schools desired to restore the old traditions" replace 'while' with 'and' and replace the semicolon with a comma
*Link California, Nevada, and Utah.
*Clarify that James F. Lanagan was the team's football coach.
#:: The only issue I see is that the success of the rugby team is not mentioned - perhaps include the overall record as a rugby team, and mention the team had two undefeated seasons.
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