Template:Infobox college football player/doc

Intended uses

This infobox template is intended to be used in articles about current and former players of American college football. However, please note the following exceptions and caveats to the foregoing general guideline for use:

1. This infobox template is not intended to be used for articles about former college football players who are also college football coaches. Articles about American college football coaches use Template:Infobox college coach, the uniform template for college coaches in all American college sports.
2. This infobox template is not intended to be used for articles about current and former National Football League (NFL) players, coaches and administrators, nor for players, coaches and administrators in the several NFL predecessor leagues, including the American Professional Football Association (APFA, 1920–1921), All-America Football Conference (AAFC, 1946–1949), American Football League (AFL, 1960–1969). This template is also not used for Arena Football League players, coaches and administrators. Articles about all of the foregoing use Template:Infobox gridiron football biography. If a former college football player played in one or more regular season games in the NFL, APFA, AAFC, AFL or Arena Football League, the article about such player should usually employ Template:Infobox NFL biography. If a former college football player was a member of an NFL preseason or practice squad, but never played in a regular season NFL game, then the article about him should generally use this template.
3. This infobox template is not intended to be used for articles about current and former Canadian Football League (CFL) players, coaches and administrators. If a former college football player played in one or more regular season games in the CFL, the article about such player should usually employ Template:Infobox gridiron football biography. If a former college football player was a member of an CFL preseason or practice squad, but never played in a regular season CFL game, then the article about him should generally use this template.

Blank template

{{{name}}}

[[File:{{{image}}}|frameless|alt={{{alt}}}|upright={{{upright}}}]] {{{caption}}}
{{{school}}} – No. {{{currentnumber}}}
Position	{{{currentposition}}}
Class	{{{class}}}
Major	{{{major}}}
Personal information
Born	{{{birth_date}}} {{{birth_place}}}
Died	{{{death_date}}} {{{death_place}}}
Height	1 ft 1 in (0.33 m)
Weight	10 lb (5 kg)
Career history
College	{{{pastschools}}}
High school	{{{highschool}}}
Career highlights and awards
{{{highlights}}}
College Football Hall of Fame ({{{CFBHOF_year}}})
{{{module}}}
Stats at ESPN Stats at CBS Sports Stats at Sports Illustrated Stats at Yahoo Sports Stats at Rivals

{{Infobox college football player
| embed           = 
| name            = 
| image           = 
| upright         = 
| alt             = 
| caption         = 
| school          = 
| pastschools     = 
| currentnumber   = 
| currentposition = 
| position        =
| class           = 
| major           = 
| highschool      = 
| birth_date      = 
| birth_place     = 
| death_date      = 
| death_place     = 
| height_ft       = 
| height_in       = 
| weight_lb       = 
| highlights      = 
| CFBHOF_id       =
| CFBHOF_year     =
| module          = 
| espn            = 
| cbs             = 
| si              = 
| yahoo           = 
| rivals          = 
}}

Parameters

• birth_date – Use {{Birth date and age}} (or {{Birth date}} if dead)
• death_date – Use {{Death date and age}} (or {{Death date}} if birth date is unknown)
• alt – Alt text for the image, for visually impaired readers; see WP:ALT
• weight_lb – Use a raw number, will be automatically converted to kilograms (kg)
• height_ft, height_in – Use raw numbers, will be automatically converted to meters (m)
• school – use only for current players; do not wikilink; use of this field will cause the infobox to be framed in the team's colors
  • Example: Alabama Crimson Tide (without any brackets)
• pastschools – list former college teams of current players, or all college teams of former players; wikilinks and years encouraged
  • Example: [[USC Trojans football|USC]] (1970–1973)

Use as a child template

The embed parameter is used when embedding this infobox into another.

This infobox may be used to create a genre-specific section within {{Infobox person}} (or similar biographical infobox templates) for cases where a person may be notable in more than one field; a generic example is shown below. For guidance on usage, see Wikipedia:Infobox modules. Also see the Template:Infobox documentation which explains embedding and subboxes.

{{Infobox person
| name = 
| image = 
| caption = 
| birth_date = 
| birth_place = 
| <!-- etc. -->
| module = 
  {{EMBEDDED TEMPLATE NAME | child=yes <!-- or embed=yes or subbox=yes -->
  | parameter-1 = 
  | parameter-2 = 
  | parameter-3 = 
  | parameter-4 = 
  | <!-- etc. -->
  }}
}}

Embedding other templates

The module parameter is used for embedding other templates into this infobox (see Wikipedia:Infobox modules).

{{Infobox college football player
| name = 
| <!-- etc. -->
| module = 
  {{Infobox military person | embed=yes
  | <!-- etc. -->
  }}
}}

Example

Joe Smith

File:Noflag2.svg Joe Smith playing for State College
Minnesota Golden Gophers – No. 12
Position	Quarterback
Class	Redshirt Redshirt Senior
Major	American history
Personal information
Born	(1993-09-30) September 30, 1993 Marion, Ohio
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	209 lb (95 kg)
Career history
College	Miami (OH) (2012) Minnesota (2013–present)
High school	Pleasant (Marion, Ohio)
Career highlights and awards
2× First-team All-American (2013, 2014) Graham–George Offensive Player of the Year (2014) 3× First-team All-Big Ten (2012–2014)
College Football Hall of Fame (2015)
Stats at ESPN Stats at CBS Sports Stats at Sports Illustrated Stats at Yahoo Sports Stats at Rivals

{{Infobox college football player
| name            = Joe Smith
| image           = Noflag2.svg
| alt             = 
| caption         = Joe Smith playing for State College
| school          = Minnesota Golden Gophers
| currentnumber   = 12
| currentposition = [[Quarterback]]
| class           = [[Senior (education)|Senior]]
| major           = American history
| pastschools     = 
* [[Miami RedHawks football|Miami (OH)]] (2012)
* [[Minnesota Golden Gophers football|Minnesota]] (2013–present)
| highschool      = [[Pleasant High School (Marion, Ohio)|Pleasant]] ([[Marion, Ohio]])
| birth_date      = {{Birth date and age|1993|9|30|mf=y}}
| birth_place     = [[Marion, Ohio]]
| death_date      = 
| death_place     = 
| height_ft       = 5
| height_in       = 11
| weight_lb       = 209
| highlights      = 
* 2× First-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[2013 College Football All-America Team|2013]], [[2014 College Football All-America Team|2014]])
* [[Big Ten Conference football individual awards#Graham–George Offensive Player of the Year|Graham–George Offensive Player of the Year]] (2014)
* 3× First-team [[List of All-Big Ten Conference football teams|All-Big Ten]] ([[2012 All-Big Ten Conference football team|2012]]–[[2014 All-Big Ten Conference football team|2014]])
| CFBHOF_year     = 2015
| espn            = 0
| cbs             = 1
| si              = 2
| yahoo           = 3
| rivals          = 4
}}

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

Sub-templates

Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if {{birth date}}, or {{birth date and age}} are used in the infobox. (Do not use these if the date is before 1583). Be cautious about using these if the person is still living, per WP:DOB.

To include a URL, use {{URL}}.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

• adr
• agent
• bday
• birthplace
• category
• country-name
• deathdate
• deathplace
• extended-address
• family-name
• fn (required)
• given-name
• honorific-prefix
• honorific-suffix
• label
• locality
• n
• nickname
• note
• org
• role
• url
• vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.

Tracking categories

• Category:Pages using infobox college football player with unknown parameters (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox college football player with "si" parameter (0)
• Category:Pages using infobox college football player with "rivals" parameter (0)

TemplateData

No description.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
embed	embed	no description	Unknown	optional
name	name	no description	Unknown	optional
image	image	no description	Unknown	optional
upright	upright	no description	Unknown	optional
alt	alt	no description	Unknown	optional
caption	caption	no description	Unknown	optional
header_background	header_background	no description	Unknown	optional
school	school	no description	Unknown	optional
currentnumber	currentnumber	no description	Unknown	optional
currentposition	currentposition	no description	Unknown	optional
position	position	no description	Unknown	optional
class	class	no description	Unknown	optional
major	major	no description	Unknown	optional
birth_date	birth_date	no description	Unknown	optional
birth_place	birth_place	no description	Unknown	optional
death_date	death_date	no description	Unknown	optional
death_place	death_place	no description	Unknown	optional
heightft	heightft	no description	Unknown	optional
height_ft	height_ft	no description	Unknown	optional
heightin	heightin	no description	Unknown	optional
height_in	height_in	no description	Unknown	optional
height_m	height_m	no description	Unknown	optional
weight_lb	weight_lb	no description	Unknown	optional
weight_lbs	weight_lbs	no description	Unknown	optional
weight	weight	no description	Unknown	optional
weight_kg	weight_kg	no description	Unknown	optional
pastschools	pastschools	no description	Unknown	optional
highschool	highschool	no description	Unknown	optional
bowlgames	bowlgames	no description	Unknown	optional
highlights	highlights	no description	Unknown	optional
CFBHOF_year	CFBHOF_year	no description	Unknown	optional
CFBHOF_id	CFBHOF_id	no description	Unknown	optional
module	module	no description	Unknown	optional
espn	espn	no description	Unknown	optional
cbs	cbs	no description	Unknown	optional
si	si	no description	Unknown	optional
si-archive	si-archive	no description	Unknown	optional
yahoo	yahoo	no description	Unknown	optional
rivals	rivals	no description	Unknown	optional
image_size	image_size	no description	Unknown	optional

See also

• Template:Infobox gridiron football biography