Kizuna Bowls 2011-Present

Year	Bowl	Hokkaido Team		Tohoku Team
2011	5	Sapporo Bengals	35	Hirosaki Green Sargent	7
25.11.2012	6	Sapporo Bengals	40	Akita Rams	7
24.11.2013	7	Sapporo Bengals	34	Morioka Loudy’s	7
02.11.2014	8	Kulms Eagles	0	Sendai Black Boltz	14
23.11.2015	9	Sapporo Bengals	9	Sendai Black Boltz	0
30.10.2016	10	North Gamblers	6	Sendai Black Boltz	6
26.11.2017	11	Kulms Eagles	10	Sendai Black Boltz	0
28.10.2018	12	Kulms Eagles	31	Sendai Black Boltz	10
23.11.2019	13	Kulms Eagles	7	Sendai Black Boltz	13

Report

North Japan’s Kizuna Bowl was won by Sapporo Bengals, representing Hokkaido, three years in a row from 2011 to 2013, after which it was won by Sendai Black Boltz, repfresenting Tohoku, who lost then lost four Kizuna Bowls in a row to Sapporo Bengals (2015), North Gamblers (2016) and Kulms Eagles (2017 and 2018) before again winning the Bowl in 2019 over Kulms Eagles.

About

The Kizuna Bowl, between North Japan’s Hokkaido North Laundry League Champions and the Tohoku Football League decides the North Japan Workers Champions in American Football.

References

Logos

[1] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) hafa [Internet] Available from: http://www.hokkaido-afa.com/img/hafa.jpg [Accessed 22 October 2020]

Websites

[2] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2011 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2011.html  [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[3] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2012 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2012.html  [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[4] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2013 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2013.html [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[5] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2014 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2014.html [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[6] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2015 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2015.html [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[7] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2016 [Internet] Available from:  http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2016.html [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[8] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2017 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2017.html [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[9] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2018 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2018.html  [Accessed 22 October 2020]

[10] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) nll2019 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll2019.html  [Accessed 22 October 2020]

Images

[11] Hokkaido American Football Association (2020) 5 [Internet] Available from: http://hokkaido-afa.com/nll/img/2012/kizuna/5.jpg  [Accessed 22 October 2020]

Online Translation Service

[3] Google Translate (2020) Japanese to English [Internet] Available from: https://translate.google.com/ [Accessed 22 October 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Caoilfhionn Nic Fhearai, Keiko, Grant Farrell. John Morahan and John Gunning

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 22 October 2020

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