Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long before the day when helmets had facemasks--when the forward pass was still a revolutionary innovation and football was still second to baseball as the national pasttime--Harvard fielded its first, and only, Rose Bowl team...
That's right, Harvard went to the Rose Bowl, and what seems even more unbelievable, the Crimson won, downing a mighty University of Oregon team...
...sixth Rose Bowl game in history emerged as a battle "to prove whether the prowess of western football is a fact or a myth," according to pre-game stories in the Los Angeles Examiner...
...second team All-American of their own at quarterback, and Billy Steers was second only to Centre College's immortal Bo McMillin as America's top signal-caller. To offset Horween's kicking skill, Oregon had Skeet Manerud; and fullback Hollis Huntington, already a veteran of two Rose Bowl games, could more than match Church on brute drive...
...Manerud's hurried boot was wide by a foot, and by twelve inches the Crimson squeaked through with its only post season bowl title in Harvard's football history