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Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
May 23, 2006

Japan Bowl
Chet King �Stars and Stripes

Yokohama, Japan, January 18, 1981: Posing with trophies they earned in leading the West team to a 25-13 win over the East in the Japan Bowl college all-star football game are, left to right, running back Freeman McNeil of UCLA (top offensive player), quarterback J.C. Watts of Oklahoma (game MVP) and Kenny Easley of UCLA (top defensive player). All went on to bigger and better things: McNeil played for the New York Jets from 1981 to 1992, gaining 8,074 yards; Easley played seven seasons for the Seattle Seahawks, going to five Pro Bowls before retiring for health reasons; and Watts played six seasons in the Canadian Football League before entering politics and serving four terms in Congress.
 
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Past photos of the day

May, 2006
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May 21, 2006: Prince Basundhara Bir Bikram of Nepal, 1955
May 20, 2006: Phone booths await reporters at the U.N. meeting in Paris, 1951
May 19, 2006: German soldiers are sworn in at Zweibruecken, 1957
May 18, 2006: B.B. King performs at Frankfurt, Germany's Alte Oper, 1992
May 17, 2006: Airboat patrol in South Vietnam, 1968
May 16, 2006: Kirk Douglas, in Japan to promote Seven Days in May, 1964
May 15, 2006: Atty Gen. and Mrs. Robert Kennedy at Yokota, 1964

May 14, 2006: Actor Rex Harrison and his wife, actress Lily Palmer, 1954
May 13, 2006: Impresario Sol Hurok with Hungarian ballet stars, 1953
May 12, 2006: Virginia's Ralph Sampson plays in a Tokyo basketball tournament, 1982
May 11, 2006: "Amityville Horror" house evacuees Kathleen and George Lutz, 1980
May 10, 2006: KC-135 tankers at sunset in England, 1978
May 9, 2006: Actor Don Johnson meets the press in Munich, 1988
May 8, 2006: Soldiers build a bridge across the Rhine River, 1954
May 7, 2006: Ostrich at the Frankfurt Zoo, 1989
May 6, 2006: Indonesian President Suharto with Japan's Emperor Hirohito, 1968
May 5, 2006: Madonna onstage in Germany, 1990
May 4, 2006: Louis Rukeyser's Stars and Stripes going-away party, 1956
May 3, 2006: Harry S Truman Memorial at the DMZ in Korea, 1982
May 2, 2006: Rowboats on the Nishiki River in Japan, 1976
May 1, 2006: Muhammad Ali visits the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea, 1976

April, 2006
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April 29, 2006: John o' Groats, at the northern end of Scotland, 1989
April 28, 2006: Michael Caine, during filming of Funeral in Berlin, 1966
April 27, 2006: Landing operations on the USS Kitty Hawk in the Indian Ocean, 1981
April 26, 2006: Erosion-battling tetrapods on the beach at Rota, Spain, 1957
April 25, 2006: Looking out for snipers while on patrol in South Vietnam, 1968
April 24, 2006: Soldier is assisted after his release from a North Vietnamese prison, 1973
April 23, 2006: Kennedy Space Center Director Dr. Kurt Debus, 1970
April 22, 2006: Tourist in front of Sir Winston Churchill's statue in London, 1989
April 21, 2006: USS Midway in drydock at Yokosuka Naval Base, 1980
April 20, 2006: Da Nang, South Vietnam, railroad station, 1971
April 19, 2006: Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and beauty pageant contestants, 1969
April 18, 2006: Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, dressed for the Middle Ages, 1988
April 17, 2006: Search and rescue boat looms over diver at MCAS Iwakuni, 1974
April 16, 2006: Distance runner Steve Prefontaine at the Munich Olympics, 1972
April 15, 2006: Budding basketball star takes a shot, 1996
April 14, 2006: Gordon Lightfoot onstage at Offenbach, Germany, 1976
April 13, 2006: Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney at Misawa Air Base, 1990
April 12, 2006: Parachutists at the Grafenw�hr training area, 1987
April 11, 2006: The rock group Boston begins a tour of Japan, 1979
April 10, 2006: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower visits Operation Jupiter, 1951
April 9, 2006: Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, 1985
April 8, 2006: Helicopter lands on the USS Midway, 1974
April 7, 2006: Sugar Ray Robinson fights in Germany, 1950
April 6, 2006: The Monkees in Tokyo, 1968
April 5, 2006: Zsa Zsa Gabor and Porfirio Rubirosa, 1954
April 4, 2006: U.S. military vehicles in the Saudi Arabian desert, 1990
April 3, 2006: John Wayne filming a movie on the Japanese coast, 1957
April 2, 2006: Sen. Strom Thurmond runs with the troops at Fulda, 1981
April 1, 2006: Olympic weightlifting medalists, 1964

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