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 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 | Date | Winner | Score | Loser | Score | Venue | MVP | Fighting Spirit Award | Ref |
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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] |
Source: [15]
Player | Position | College |
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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 | ||
Judd Garrett | RB | Princeton |
Rick McIntire | ||
Rich Huff | DB | Yale |
Chris Finn | ||
Mike Holt | DB | Columbia |
Jon Skinner | ||
Mike Ciotti | C | Yale |
Franco Pagnanelli | Princeton | |
Scott Wollam | DL | Yale |
Harris Siskind | ||
Dave Tauber | ||
Bob Surace | Princeton | |
Greg Gicewicz | Harvard | |
Gerald Mahon | ||
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 |