Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern Cal's bewildered line for three Michigan touchdowns. Trigger Man Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3), who admitted later that he wasn't quite up to snuff, completed only 14 of 24 passes (two for touchdowns), passed and ran the ball 279 yards for a new Rose Bowl record. When the gun ended it all, Michigan had won by the same score* (49 to 0, the biggest in Rose Bowl history) by which it had won the first Rose Bowl game, back in 1902. It had also outscored Notre Dame against a common foe for the third time...
Outstanding among the nation's 15 other New Year's bowl games...
...Dallas' Cotton Bowl, All-America Doak Walker celebrated his 21st birthday by helping Southern Methodist to a two-touchdown lead. Then Walker & Co. spent the rest of the game trying to stave off Penn State, whose subs seemed to work harder than the seniors. The score: S.M.U. 13, Penn State...
...Orleans' Sugar Bowl, Texas put on an aerial circus that fooled Alabama, 27 to 7. Afterwards, the owners of two pro football teams (Chicago Bears and Baltimore Colts) were on hand to bid for Quarterback Bobby Layne, whose passes ruined Alabama...
...Walla Walla, Wash., two teams of convicts played behind Washington State Penitentiary walls in the first Stone Bowl game. The star: a 155-lb. halfback known as "Floor Show" Fletcher (pen name: No. 21154), a sophomore who scored both touchdowns for the prison All-Stars. Said Referee Tom Deering, who was brought in from the outside: "It was the cleanest game I've worked all season...