The Drake Bulldogs and a Mexican all-star team made history Saturday by playing the first college football game in Africa.
The Bulldogs beat the CONADEIP All-Stars, a collection of top college players from Mexico, 17-7 in the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl in front of an estimated crowd of about 12,000 in Arusha, Tanzania.
The exhibition is part of a two-week trip organized by Drake that includes include youth clinics, a safari, an orphanage project and a five-day climb to the summit of the 19,340-foot Kilimanjaro.
The trip grew out of a vision by Drake coach Chris Creighton and took more than a year of planning by Global Football. The company has been taking U.S. college football teams around the world for 14 years.
Creighton tells The Associated Press that the event made for a “magical day.”
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