DH

Oh I think we can do better than that. It most certainly was not Ueshiba. Further, what little old man of aikido would be in the U.S doing a demo at a football game in 1957.
Shioda would not have been old. Further, for any of them to be here would have certainly been mentioned as it would have been approved by Ueshiba's relatively new organization. We have thousands of pages of interviews of virtually all of his contemporaries and students. With all manner or exhibitions, demonstrations, public gatherings, silly kneeling wrist grabs by Kennedy's bodyguard (blown out of proportion as an actual "encounter") Draegers visit, Tenryu's testing, even arrests and war crime revelations. Being invited to do a half time demonstration in front of upward of ten thousand people would have been a noteworthy invitation. Tohei would have been 37 yrs old. His visits to Hawaii in 53 and 55 to teach at a single dojo were somehow noteworthy enough to have been mentioned by many, many aikido contemporaries, yet an invitation to demonstrate to ten thousand people at a football game went unmentioned?
How curious.
Its interesting that even Teddy Roosevelt's request for teachers from Takeda Sokaku was noted and mentioned, and the teaching of princes and generals and admirals, everything right done to many of these guys bathing, and eating habits. Yet this important event was missed. Perhaps it is worth noting Seagal says it was a football game in one place, and a baseball game in another, but in both he mentions a little old man throwing multiple ukes.
Hmmm...
1. In the 50's who was alive who was old and doing aikido?
SInce multiple men were being thrown.
2. Who would they be?
Now we have not one persons story being missed, but a whole group of men not bothering to mention it, or tell interesting stories around the request for a visit, the arrangements the after affects etc.
Again , odd since we have so many sotries of simply traveling on a train, or taking a taxi in Japan with Ueshiba.