The Rising Sun of Football in Japan

An American teacher (to his own surprise) brought the honorable T formation to some collegians in Tokyo ~ By Arthur Myers

"The Japanese have a way with American games that is all too scrutable: they are very good at them. They took over baseball as though it were a colony and they go at American-style football with a zeal that might be considered excessive at Notre Dame. Football is played at 19 Japanese colleges. The players may lack the beef of U.S. collegians but they make up for it in style and—it is the only word—ceremony...."

(Continued on page 99 of this classic SI issue published on November 30, 1964)