This week I got to work on a podcast episode that tells the incredible story of Teisaku Sugishita—a Japanese college student and the starting quarterback for the NC State football team in.... 1895!!!
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Unrelated, but my family has a legend about Grandpa meeting Sessue Hayakawa on the boat to the US. Hayakawa was supposedly en route to U of Chicago, and apparently he played football there, though accounts vary about that. He got into acting later, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessue_Hayakawa
Big thanks to historian Tim Peeler (who uncovered this lost piece of important history) and @shehanjeyarajah.com (whose mind was fully blown) for joining us.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessue_Hayakawa