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U of Hawaii Football Looking Into Playing A Game In Japan
August 23, 2011 / Football
The University of Hawaii plans to play a regular-season football game in Japan within the next few years, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
Jim Donovan, the school’s athletics director, revealed the prospect while in Osaka over the weekend for a men’s basketball game. Hawaii was finishing up a 15-day exhibition tour through China and Japan.The Rainbow Warriors could play a football game in Japan as soon as 2014. Donovan said he met with executives of the Osaka Dome, where the proposed game would take place.
Donovan said Hawaii would consider opponents in the Mountain West Conference, which includes national powerhouse Boise State, and the Pac-12 Conference. Hawaii becomes a football-playing member of the Mountain West next season.
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