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A fact from Jim McCanless appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 February 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Clemson University football player Jim McCanless made the 1958 varsity team despite having suffered a broken neck the year prior?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jim McCanless.

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Did you know nomination

The following 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 DanCherek (talk) 17:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Clemson University football player Jim McCanless made the 1958 varsity team despite having suffered a broken neck the year prior? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92885206/the-state/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dave Dryburgh

Created by BeanieFan11 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:40, 24 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Article is new enough and long enough, both by a hair. Hook is interesting and cited both in the body of the article and here in the nomination. No immediate problems with the article. QPQ completed. — Ghost River 19:39, 25 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoting to Prep 3. DanCherek (talk) 17:31, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]