44-402: Turkey Bowl may refer to one of the following sports events: Turkey Bowl (high school) , a common name for high school American football games held either on Thanksgiving or over Thanksgiving weekend Turkey Bowl (amateur) , nickname for informal backyard American football games held on Thanksgiving or over Thanksgiving weekend Turkey bowling ,
88-404: A Turkey Day Game or a Turkey Bowl (not to be confused with Turkey bowling ), as Americans typically eat turkeys on Thanksgiving, although the title varies with each game. Most commonly these games are between high school football rivalries although in many cases, when poor weather requires a shorter season, the game can be the culmination of league play among a high-school league , in which
132-419: A flag football , street football , or touch football format. While the games themselves are not generally nationally known, Turkey Bowls hold importance for those who participate and it is not uncommon for rivalries to last for decades. Turkey Bowls are played by a variety of people including extended families, college fraternities, volunteer fire departments, and local churches across the country which use
176-688: A fierce rival on the last week of the regular season. At levels below the Bowl Subdivision, the NCAA begins its championship tournaments either on Thanksgiving weekend (for the Division I FCS championship ) or the week before (in the cases of Divisions II and III; the NAIA , a separate body, also begins its tournament at that time). Other college football sanctioning bodies end their seasons well before Thanksgiving. The University of Kansas and University of Missouri played
220-598: A heavy mobile podium on which the model was posed each week by a quarreling agora of tousle-headed youths." The early success of the Académie was also secured by the famous and respected artists whom Rodolphe Julian employed as instructors: Adolphe William Bouguereau (1825–1905), Henri Royer , Jean-Paul Laurens , Gabriel Ferrier , Tony Robert-Fleury , Jules Lefebvre and other leading artists of that time trained in Academic art . Eventually, Académie Julian students were granted
264-680: A period of time, reflected the teachings of Académie Julian. In 1989, on the occasion of the exhibition at the Shepherd Gallery, in Manhattan, devoted to the Academie Julian in Paris as it existed between 1868 and 1939, John Russell wrote: By my count, more than 50 nationalities were represented at the school during its glory years. To be at the Academie Julian was to be exposed to a kind of white magic that seems to have worked in almost every case. What
308-556: A sport involving bowling with turkeys as bowling balls and soda bottles as pins Impact Turkey Bowl , a special tournament that was aired on the Thanksgiving night episode of Impact! Johns Hopkins Division of Cardiology jeopardy tournament between faculty and fellows, held the Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving since 2006 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
352-633: Is one of the many traditions in American culture that is associated with Thanksgiving Day . Virtually every level of football, from amateur and high school to college and the NFL (including the CFL on Canadian Thanksgiving ), plays football on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday) or the immediately following holiday weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). Thanksgiving Day football games in the United States are nearly as old as
396-444: Is sorted alphabetically, first by state, and then by school, with team leading the series listed first wherever possible. State and regional championship tournaments are listed ahead of rivalries. If the rivalry involves two states, the rivalry is listed under the school whose state comes first alphabetically (e.g. a New Jersey-Pennsylvania rivalry is listed under New Jersey). Connecticut has at least 48 Thanksgiving games. Some of
440-690: Is the Bayou Classic between Grambling State University and Southern University , which is held the Saturday after Thanksgiving; for the 2017 season only, because of a hurricane earlier in the season, the Labor Day Classic between Texas Southern and Prairie View A&M was played on Thanksgiving weekend, and the two teams voluntarily agreed to hold that Classic on the same weekend in 2018. Alabama State, Mississippi Valley State, Prairie View A&M, Texas Southern, Southern and Grambling are all members of
484-702: The 1986 season , it would have played one of its games on Thanksgiving (a game featuring the Tampa Bay Bandits at the Memphis Showboats was scheduled for that night), but the league suspended operations prior to the season and, even if it had survived, the Bandits went bankrupt before the season would have been played. Similarly, the United Football League , which began play in 2009, held its first two UFL championship games over Thanksgiving weekend; both
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#1732876904235528-570: The Burley Bowl pitted two small colleges against each other in an unofficial bowl game. From 1894 to 1953, Case Tech Rough Riders and Western Reserve University Red Cats played each other on Thanksgiving, playing at Cleveland Stadium . The two schools merged in 1970. The Turkey Day Classic , a college football game between Alabama State University and Tuskegee University , has been played on Thanksgiving Day annually from 1924 to 2012 and again since 2016; as such, it has historically been known as
572-738: The Canadian Football League , where games are played on Canadian Thanksgiving , the CFL hosts two games in the Thanksgiving Day Classic ; it is one of only two weeks each year in which the CFL plays on a Monday, the other being the Labour Day Classic . The difference between the Thanksgiving and Labour Day games is that the Thanksgiving Day games do not have the same matchups each year; however, like its American counterpart, one of
616-581: The Dallas Cowboys have played home games on Thanksgiving since 1934 and 1966, respectively, in a traditional series of NFL games . Beginning in 2006, the NFL added a third game on Thanksgiving night with a rotating host team. The rival American Football League also played on Thanksgiving in the 1960s, as did the All-America Football Conference in the 1940s and the original AFL in 1926. In
660-723: The Evening Telegraph newspaper of Philadelphia published the following announcement: "Foot Ball: A foot-ball match between twenty-two players of the Young America Cricket Club and the Germantown Cricket Club will take place on Thanksgiving Day at 12 1/2 o'clock, on the grounds of the Germantown Club." The proximity of Philadelphia to both Rutgers and Princeton invites speculation that this game may have been played under similar rules and perhaps involved some of
704-622: The German military administration forced the school to close. In 1946 some of the studios were sold. For his services to the arts, Rodolphe Julian, described by the Anglo-Irish novelist and critic George Moore as a kind of Hercules, dark-haired, strong, with broad shoulders, short legs, a soft voice and all the charm of the Midi was awarded the Legion of Honour . The artist records still extant are those of
748-701: The Secessionist art movement in Germany and the Vienna Secession in Austria. It was followed and fully articulated by the Nabis , an avant-garde movement that participated in paving the way to modern art in 1888–1889. Over time, Académie Julian opened schools in other locations. In addition to the original school at Passage des Panoramas, studios were at no. 5 Rue de Berri in the 8th arrondissement , no. 31 Rue du Dragon in
792-486: The Southwestern Athletic Conference . Other prominent college football rivalries that take place over Thanksgiving weekend include: The frequent changing of conferences stemming from the early-2010s realignment of NCAA teams and conferences complicated the numerous rivalries that traditionally play Thanksgiving weekend. While collegiate games have been played on Thanksgiving Day itself (with perhaps
836-657: The École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian played a game in Paris, France. This is considered the first American football game ever played in Europe. The tradition of playing football games on Thanksgiving continues to this day. At the high school level, the tradition is declining rapidly as schools drop their Thanksgiving games and shorten their regular season in favor of playoff tournaments and allowing players to focus on winter sports such as basketball. High school football games played on Thanksgiving are often called
880-524: The École des Beaux-Arts were accepted by the new Académie Julian. Foreign applicants who had been deterred from entering the Ecole des Beaux Arts by a vicious French language examination were welcome at the Académie Julian. Men and women were trained separately, and women participated in the same studies as men, including drawing and painting of nude models. "Human exchange went forward in an atmosphere that
924-431: The "Turkey Day Classic." It is also the oldest black college football classic , since the two colleges first played each other in 1901. Tuskegee University pulled out of the contest after 2012 (they were replaced by Stillman College in the 2013 contest), and Alabama State did the same from 2013 to 2015, deciding to move its homecoming to the Saturday before Thanksgiving; in both cases, the NCAA football tournaments prompted
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#1732876904235968-483: The 6th arrondissement, no. 51, rue Vivienne in the 2nd arrondissement for female student artists, overseen by painter Amélie Beaury-Saurel , Julian's spouse. Subsequent faculty included former students ( Edgar Chahine , for example). Académie Julian remained open during World War I , albeit with a lesser number of students. By contrast during World War II , after the 1941 exhibition Vingt jeunes peintres de tradition française considerations on " degenerate art " by
1012-485: The Académie Julian as: "A huge room, lighted from above, and smelling strongly of turpentine; tobacco-smoke, sweat and garlic, for the models were mostly children of the South. A room plastered to the full height of a man's reach with palette scrapings whose many colours mingled to make a warm grey background, hung with the prize studies of decades of concourse , furnished with a huge Godin stove, and tall grass-plaited stools, and
1056-622: The Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas , as a private studio school for art students. The Académie Julian not only prepared students for the exams at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts , but offered independent alternative education and training in arts. "Founded at a time when art was about to undergo a long series of crucial mutations, the Academie Julian played host to painters and sculptors of every kind and persuasion and never tried to make them hew to any one particular line". In 1880, women who were not allowed to enroll for study to
1100-587: The Bay State has a traditional rival and the holiday game is a focal point for all of them, no matter how unsuccessful the regular season may have been. Unorganized groups have also been known to partake in American football on Thanksgiving. These informal matches are usually known as a Turkey Bowl (not to be confused with some high school football games that also use the name "Turkey Bowl", see above , and with Turkey Bowling ). These games are usually unofficiated with
1144-683: The Chicago Maroons in the 1890s have been erroneously cited as "The Beginning of Thanksgiving Day Football." Since the Maroons no longer play at the Division I level, the Wolverines now play their modern-day archrivals, the Ohio State Buckeyes , during Thanksgiving weekend. Yale and Princeton began an annual tradition of playing against each other on Thanksgiving Day starting in 1876. From 1945 to 1956,
1188-586: The better known ones are as follows: Maine has only one Thanksgiving football game Maryland is home to one of the Oldest rivalries nationally, also known to be two of the oldest rivalries in the Southeastern United States . In Massachusetts, where high school football is not nearly the draw it is in other parts of the country, the Thanksgiving Day game is a long-standing tradition that brings out thousands of alumni and other fans. Virtually every school in
1232-578: The day after Thanksgiving in 1974 ; the business failures of the 1974 season led to the league reorganizing the playoff structure and pushing the World Bowl one week back (although the WFL regularly played on Thursdays during the regular season, it instead split its semifinals between the day before Thanksgiving and the day after). Had the United States Football League completed its move to autumn for
1276-514: The day and the game to have fun, exercise and renew old acquaintances. Thanksgiving weekend historically marks the end of the college football regular season, before conference championships and bowl games begin play in December (the Army–Navy Game is the lone exception). Today, this is only true for the top-level NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , where it has become a tradition to play
1320-562: The first of nineteen consecutive Thanksgiving Day football games in Kansas City, Missouri in 1892. After new conference rules that required all games to be played on college campuses, the Thanksgiving Day tradition was temporarily suspended in 1911, but then reinstituted in spurts starting in 1916 and continuing through the 1940s. The University of Michigan made it a tradition to play annual Thanksgiving games, holding 19 such games from 1885 to 1905. The Thanksgiving Day games between Michigan and
1364-663: The games has a regular host (in the CFL's case, the Montreal Alouettes ). Coincidentally, both the Grey Cup , the CFL's championship game, and the Vanier Cup , the championship of Canadian college football, are both traditionally played on the fourth weekend in November, which amounts to the week before or the week after American Thanksgiving. The World Football League originally planned to hold its 1974 championship game, World Bowl 1 ,
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1408-575: The game—and the organized holiday—themselves. The first Thanksgiving Day football game took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving Day of 1869, less than two weeks after Rutgers defeated Princeton in New Brunswick, New Jersey in what is widely recognized as the first intercollegiate football game in the United States, and only six years after Abraham Lincoln declared the first fixed national Thanksgiving holiday in 1863. On November 17, 1869,
1452-568: The most notable being the Nebraska-Oklahoma game of 1971 ), the majority of the current traditional Thanksgiving weekend college football games listed above are played on the Friday or Saturday after the holiday, in part to avoid conflicts with the NFL. Texas, as previously mentioned, has had more or less of a permanent spot on the night of the holiday itself since at least 2008. Professional football teams and leagues have played on Thanksgiving from
1496-509: The right to compete for the Prix de Rome , a prize awarded to promising young artists. and participate in the major "Salons" or art exhibitions . In the late 19th century the term L'art pompier had entered the scene as a derisive term for the traditional academic art espoused by the Académie's instructors. As a result, the Académie Julian embraced a more liberal regime pushing a less conservative, more sincere approach to art which corresponded to
1540-618: The same participants, or at least people familiar with the game played at Rutgers, and a second match at Princeton, earlier that month. Princeton played Yale in the New York City area on Thanksgiving Day from 1876 through 1881. The Thanksgiving Day football game became an institutionalized fixture of organized football in 1882, when the Intercollegiate Football Association determined to hold an annual collegiate championship game in New York City on Thanksgiving Day between
1584-594: The schools to move the end of their seasons to before Thanksgiving so that they would be able to compete for the national championship should they qualify. The establishment of the Celebration Bowl for historically black schools allowed the Turkey Day Classic to resume; it was held against conference rivals Mississippi Valley State and Prairie View A&M in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Another popular black college football classic played on Thanksgiving weekend
1628-584: The start, with pro leagues and teams having played on Thanksgiving since the 1890s. It carried over when Buffalo and Rochester, two members of the New York Pro Football League (NYPFL) which had held its championship on Thanksgiving 1919, and the Ohio League , which traditionally held its marquee matchups on Thanksgiving, combined into the NFL upon its founding in 1920, and as such, the NFL has played on Thanksgiving ever since. The Detroit Lions and
1672-514: The title Turkey Bowl . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turkey_Bowl&oldid=1123589134 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages American football on Thanksgiving#High school football American football
1716-487: The truncated 2011 UFL season and the 2012 UFL season were cut short well before the Thanksgiving holiday due to financial shortfalls. The Fall Experimental Football League had scheduled its championship for the day before Thanksgiving Day 2014, in Brooklyn, but the game was cancelled after the season was shortened. Acad%C3%A9mie Julian The Académie Julian ( French pronunciation: [akademi ʒyljɑ̃] )
1760-405: The two leading teams in the association. Previously, the 'Champion' was to be determined by a team's records over the entire season against all members of the association. For at least the three previous years, the championship had been a matter of dispute as a result of Yale and Princeton playing to scoreless ties on three Thanksgiving Day games in a row. On November 25, 1897, American students of
1804-468: The winners of this game will be the league champions for the year. (Statewide playoffs were generally rare until the 1970s and 1980s, which allowed for longer regular seasons.) The custom dates back more than 100 years and is particularly prevalent in the Northeast. In most cases, games are contested with kickoff times as early as 9 a.m., allowing the participants to have the rest of the holiday off. This list
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1848-551: Was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris , France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number and quality of artists who attended during a great period of effervescence in the arts in the early twentieth century. After 1968, it integrated with the École supérieure de design, d'art graphique et d'architecture intérieure (ESAG) Penninghen. Rodolphe Julian established
1892-520: Was collegial, easygoing and mutually supportive. It nurtured some of the best artists of the day". Académie Julian became popular as fertile ground with French as well as foreign students from diverse backgrounds from all over the world, from the United Kingdom , Canada, Hungary, and particularly the United States ; French art critic Egmont Arens wrote in 1924 that American art, at least for
1936-544: Was learned there stayed forever with alumnus and alumna, and it related as much to the conduct of life as to the uses of brush and chisel. – in The New York Times , John Russell: "An Art School That Also Taught Life", 19 March 1989. The South African painter Strat Caldecott (1886–1929) worked and studied at the Académie Julian in preparation for his admission to the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He vividly described
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