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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:25, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Albert Berg

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  • ... that Albert Berg, the first Purdue football coach, was a deaf-mute whose coaching reportedly "consisted of excited sign language and some rather bizarre sounds from his throat"?

Created/expanded by Cbl62 (talk). Self nom at 21:42, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

  • The expansion date, expansion size, length, and hook all check out. The hook fact is cited by reliable sources, and a check of a couple refs revealed no close paraphrasing issues. Overall, the article looks to be in fairly good shape, and should be suitable for the main page. Giants2008 (Talk) 02:50, 20 November 2012 (UTC)