Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard did participate at one time in the Rose Bowl. It was after the 1919 undefeated season that the Crimson eleven went West to defeat Oregon 7 to 6 on New Year...
...beaten in nine games that fall, it was probably not a great Harvard eleven. There were only two tough opponents on the schedule--Yale and Princeton. The rest of the lineup was as follows: Bates, Boston College (before Leahy), Colby, Brown, Virginia, Springfield, and Tufts. Brown held the Rose Bowl winners to seven points and Yale lost by only a narrow 10 to 3 margin. The Princeton Tigers put the only blot on the 1919 record when they held the Crimson...
Practice for that Rose Bowl game against Oregon started about December 1. It is described at length by Robert Fisher '12 in "The II Book of Harvard Athletics" an almanac of Harvard grid, crew, baseball history published by the Varsity club...
...Bowl Opponent Confident...
Three years later--in 1923--post season games of the Rose Bowl type were relegated to the ash can as far as Harvard is concerned. In that year President Lowell got together with the respective presidents of Princeton and Yale and the result was the birth of the notorious Three Presidents' Agreement...