Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1896 South Bend Commercial-Athletic Club football team

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:25, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1896 South Bend Commercial-Athletic Club football team

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After a review of the sources in this article, I'm not convinced this team meets the WP:GNG or WP:NSEASONS. In order of appearance in the article, the first source is merely informing readers of a blub meeting, the second is about the athletic club, not the team, the third is all of two short sentences, white the remaining sources are brief and routine game recaps. A check of newspaper archives didn't come up with much better. Let'srun (talk) 01:08, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sports, American football, and Indiana. Let'srun (talk) 01:08, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. This is a creation of User:Murphanian777. Back in 2000, they created articles on every team that played a game against Notre Dame in its early years. Many of those opponents were local patsies who Notre Dame defeated easily. That also appears to be the case here as ND outscored this club, 46–0. While well intentioned, I have serious doubts about the notability of stand-alone articles on ND's patsies. Similar articles on ND patsies have been deleted as well. The rationales in the prior AfDs apply here as well. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1900 South Bend Howard Park Club football team, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1905 Bennett Medical football team, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1904 Toledo Athletic Association football team. Cbl62 (talk) 03:21, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events and History. ― "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (talk) 04:07, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - not every team is notable enough for an article, and the sources are rather sparse. Whizkin (talk) 20:09, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Cbl62's reasoning. Best, GPL93 (talk) 21:32, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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