FB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[BoBo]

They don't update while the game is in progress.  In fact, they won't post a score until at least 2 hours after the ending of the game.

[voice]

2007 World Championship of American Football played this morning in Kawasaki, Japan:    USA 77,  Korea 0
               Sweden 14,  France 14

Next up for the USA will be Germany on Thursday

[BoBo]

2007 World Championship of American Football played this morning in Kawasaki, Japan:    USA 77,  Korea 0
               Sweden 14,  France 14

Next up for the USA will be Germany on Thursday

Voice, Sweden 16 France 14 according to the IFAF website
http://wc2007.info/index_e.html

[voice]

Man, my first post of the day and I screw up.  It only shows the power of proof reading

[BoBo]

Screwing up...mornings can do that to anyone.  I have a lot of experience in that, BTW!

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

Kleppe led Team USA in Tackles (3) and it appears all of them were Tackles For Loss for -10 yards:

http://wc2007.info/777/stats/stats04.html

[badgerwarhawk]

WARHAWKS adding video scoreboard....http://www.warhawkfootball.com/newswire.asp

[Just Bill]

Kleppe led Team USA in Tackles (3) and it appears all of them were Tackles For Loss for -10 yards:

http://wc2007.info/777/stats/stats04.html

If it was 77-0 there's a good chance that EVERY tackle was a tackle for a loss. 

More stats besides the aforementioned Kleppe:

Cody Childs (UWSP) rushed for 25 yards on 5 carries and 2 TD's

Steve Teeples (UWL) returned an interception five yards for a TD. He also returned two punts for 78 yards including a 60-yarder.

USA outgained Korea 266 to negative-31.  That doesn't count 289 return yards.  Korea did not achieve a first down.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

Korea was held to -31 yards of offense.

USA:  5 O TDs, 2 D TDs, and 4 ST TDs.

[Just Bill]

Thursday's games are effectively semifinals as the third place team in each pool has already been determined.

USA vs. Germany
Sweden vs. Japan

5th Place game - Korea vs. France (Sat)
3rd Place game - (Sat)
Championship - (Sun)

[BoBo]

No offense to the other teams as I'm sure they are trying real hard, but this competition is a lot like the early days of basketball in the Olympics when team USA could sleepwalk and outclass everyone to the Gold Medal because of the lack of skill, ability, coaching, etc of the other teams.  From 1936 when it became an Olympic sport to the infamous 1972 game with the Soviets, the USA won the gold in every Olympic Games.  It wasn't until the 1980s that many nations achieved parity with the United States, which was still fielding a team of collegians. Of course the Dream Team of 1992 changed the landscape forever.  We all know what has happened in recent years.  Having the football Team USA in this tournament only serves to legitimizes it's purpose for the unforseeable future.  If basketball took 35 years to get competitive, football might take twice that long.  My guess is that the scores of these games, like the Korea game, will continue to be astronomical routs for the time being - look for competitive games somewhere around 2060 - that's if these other nations are not tired of getting beat up and are still playing the game then. Then the whole thing will have to be re-invented, like Olympic basketball, because the rest of the world will have caught up and passed us by and America will be tired of getting beat up by the rest of the nations of the world.  To use the immortal words of Yogi Berra, it will be deja vu all over again!

[wildcat11]

Korea was held to -31 yards of offense.

USA:  5 O TDs, 2 D TDs, and 4 ST TDs.

yikes...it sounds like the USA defense almost moved the Korea team into China.

[Pat Coleman]

Part of the Axis of Awful.

[Just Bill]

Part of the Axis of Awful.

How long were you waiting for an opportunity to use that?   

[BoBo]

Korea was held to -31 yards of offense.

USA:  5 O TDs, 2 D TDs, and 4 ST TDs.

yikes...it sounds like the USA defense almost moved the Korea team into China.

At least to the Yalu River.