Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nomination for Eastern team in the next Rose Bowl game: HARVARD...
...Well, why not? Sure, Harvard has been defeated, so has Stanford and Harvard is improving faster than any other team in the East, while the other big once are fading away, except Notre Dame and Minnesota which are out of the Rose Bowl picture anyhow. The way the Lone Star State teams are behaving, anything may happen in Texas before they clean up their regular schedules. Harvard would certainly satisfy any scholastic scruples Stanford might feel about an opponent. Moreover, Harvard has been here once, so that disposes of the matter of precedent smashing. Rah for HAR-VARD...
...article went on from there to discuss the chances of Fordham's traveling west for the Yule holidays--and gave the definite impression that teams of the present Fordham or old-time Pittsburgh type were no longer welcome in the Rose Bowl...
...daring 28-yard pass that set up one touchdown. In the last quarter, with the Rams trying desperately to tie the score, Jones intercepted a pass, streaked 30 yards for a second touchdown and a 13-to-0 victory that blasted Fordham's dreams of a Rose Bowl bid. It was the first time Fordham had failed to score since...
...Jones was the hero, Pitt's victory was sweetest for John Gabbert Bowman, its 64-year-old chancellor. When Educator Bowman became head of the university in 1921, he discovered that alumni seemed more interested in a better football team than better teachers. Alumni insisted on building a bowl seating 70,000, getting one of the best football coaches money could buy (Jock Sutherland), and getting players much the same way. In the early '30s, Pitt football teams became fabulously powerful. Rival coaches whispered that Pitt players, besides getting free tuition and books, received a salary...