Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day of the new year taps were sounded this week for the 1938 college football season. While 215,000 fans watched the ceremonies in New Orleans, Miami, Pasadena and Dallas, millions of stay-at-homes, by their radios, followed events in the Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl, Cotton Bowl...
First there was the regular pigskin season. Then a few teams decided to stage intersectional clashes to prolong the season into December. Shortly some one had the idea of a championship encounter, the Rose Bowl. Soon a lot of other people wanted a lot of other Bowls, the Sugar, the Cotton, the Finger, the Orange, and Hawaii's Pineapple. It was surprising, as a matter of fact, that baseball was able to keep possession of the Grapefruit...
...these things came about; and last Monday was a big day in college football, as well as in top-notch high school circles. Yesterday, however, two victors in Rose Bowl play, Tennessee and Texas Christian, were asked to compete in another game for a "World's Fair" trophy and free rides on the Ferris Wheels...
...Bowl Games: Sugar (Mon. 2 p.m. NBC-Blue), Texas Christian v. Carnegie Tech at New Orleans; Orange (2:15 p.m. CBS), Tennessee v. Oklahoma at Miami; Rose (5 p.m. NBC-Red), Duke v. Southern California at Pasadena; also East v. West All Stars (4:45 p.m. MBS) from San Francisco...
Other U. S. Bowl games scheduled for New Year's week: Sun Bowl at El Paso, Prune Bowl at San Jose, Calif., Dixie Bowl at Atlanta, Peach Bowl (for Negroes) at Atlanta, Coal Bowl at Charleston, W. Va., Finger Bowl (between two six-man football teams) at Ennis, Texas...