Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have two big weekends a year," said a Dallas businessman last week. "One is New Year's. The other is the TexasOklahoma game." Dallas hotel rooms had been reserved for months, airlines and railroads hauled capacity crowds, the Cotton Bowl itself had been sold out since August. The Chamber of Commerce candidly figures the fans, swarming into city nightclubs or out to the State Fair, leave at least $2,000,000 in the city's tills - -making football enthusiasts of every merchant in town. For Texans it was all a bust. A pair of fleetfooted Sooner halfbacks, Tommy...
...consequences, however, were not quite so serious as they were in 1928 when Riegels, center and captain of the University of California's Rose Bowl team, ran from Georiga Tech territory over the Rose Bowl turf to his own one-yard line, setting up a Tech touchback several seconds later...
...must conserve the greatest asset we have inherited-the soil . We must strengthen the agricultural conservation program and the Soil Conservation Service, restore the role of leadership to the conservation districts, restore the administration of agricultural programs to farmers, and take emergency measures when needed to prevent another dust bowl...
...smile. He has known the bitterness of defeat, when in 1954 he inherited a team of Big Ten co-champions and lost six out of nine games. He has known the joy of triumph, when his Spartans last year rolled over Big Ten opposition and into the Rose Bowl to defeat U.C.L.A. 17-14. Of his last year's success, Daugherty is deprecatory: "I should give a lot of credit for last year's success to my staff. That's only fair." Daugherty waits until the listener nods approvingly. Then he flashes his broad grin...
...team trainer gets a workout helping padded giants collect their wits or their wind after a particularly savage block. Practice, after all, cannot be stopped just because a first-string tackle has staggered out of the huddle, rag-doll limp, his eyes rolling in his head. Says Rose Bowl Hero Kaiser: "You see a guy out in a canoe on Red Cedar River with his girl and a blanket and you wonder what you're doing it for. But other times you get out there feeling good and you just plain want to butt heads...