Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department after diligent inspection listed the mid-Manhattan Yale Club as in violation of the city health code when it discovered mouse excreta on the premises and splinters in its cutting boards. Quipped Yale Alumnus Dick Cavett ('58): "Next thing we'll hear is that the Yale Bowl has a crack...
November--The Yale football team grounds a high-flying Harvard 11 in the Yale Bowl, 35-0, surprising everybody and extinguishing the Crimson's hopes for a share of the Ivy League title...
When ski racers come to the Middlebury Snow Bowl, they all have to take a playing card from the deck of a queer old lady who rules the mountain. No one is conscious of having taken the card. Sometimes if you look hard you can see aces and deuces fall out of the racers boots when they take them off in the gym where everybody sleeps at the end of the day's skiing. The racers never see the card fall out--they are always in a hurry to get to dinners and the fabulous parties at Sigma Etc. that...
This year, two things made the brisk monotony of a Minnesota January more bearable: the upcoming Super Bowl and the Wounded Knee trial. But for all the publicity focused on the "Indian Trial of the Century" (in the words of defense attorney William Kunstler), most Minnesotans seemed more interested in Vikings than Indians...
...most common inducement is free tickets. The N.C.A.A permits every player four tickets to each of his team's games-and then winks at the common practice of scalping those tickets. For the recent Sugar Bowl, Alabama Split End Wayne Wheeler hoped to get $100 per seat. At Alabama, the custom is so established that there is an unwritten rule requiring players who still have tickets on Thursdays before games to dump them at any price, so that they can concentrate on practice...