Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea for Sadie Hawkins Day at Yale belonged to Sophomore John Maclean. Having heard that such celebrations had already been held in several freshwater colleges, Maclean persuaded fellow News editors to invite girls and turn them loose in Dogpatch costumes to chase Yale men in Yale's Bowl between the halves of the game...
...Sadie Hawkins Eve, letters and telegrams had arrived from 1,300 male-chasers at Smith, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Sarah Lawrence, Connecticut College. Next day, their bids accepted by Yale men, more than 200 showed up. With their men in tow, they marched into the Bowl in a chilly rain. But there was to be no manchasing in the Yale Bowl. At the last moment, the News had cold feet. Sole evidence of Sadie Hawkins Day in the Bowl was an undergraduate representing Daisy Mae, who suddenly dashed on the field at halftime in the midst of a humorless procession...
...nation today. The Golden Gophers are favored to bottle up Tom Harmon; the S.M.U. Mustangs will once more prove the rule that no team can ever win the Southwestern title two years in a row by upsetting the Texas Aggies; and Washington will win the Western Rose Bowl assignment by tripping up the Stanford Indians...
...coach Stanford. Last week Stanford, with virtually the same team that won only one game in 1939, trounced Southern California with two touchdowns in the game's last 90 seconds, thus winning its fifth victory and becoming the Pacific Coast's likeliest representative in the Rose Bowl game...
Spreyer's number was extracted from the 295th blue pellet fished out of the bowl in Washington, it was learned yesterday. Since he is a student he receives deferment until July, when he probably will be called into active service...