Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increase last summer in admissions of teen-agers with broken or fractured limbs, particularly "skateboard elbow," caused by landing funny-bone-first. To cut down the carnage rate, Long Beach, San Diego and other communities have banned skateboarding in the streets and parks; Hollywood Hills' celebrated "Toilet Bowl," a vast, saucer-like storm drain that attracts thousands of skateboard stunters each week, has been modified with antispeed bumps to slow the action; some San Diego high schools are planning special skateboard safety classes. But even star boarders wind up in splints. SkateBoarder Editor Bolster broke both his wrists this...
...just happens to coincide with the period when the Bruin gridiron program turned as sour as a program can turn. Before that eventful fall of 1959, Brown had fielded respectable pigskin outfits, and had produced more winners than losers. In fact, the Bruins had participated in the first Rose Bowl, losing 14-0 to Washington State back...
...hopeless isolation of the period is masterfully captured in newsreel footage of a bankrupt Dust Bowl farmer surveying his parched land and saying, "I'd like to see rain, I mean, I have seen it. I'd like to have my son--he's eight years old--see it." As a counterpoint to this hopelessness a robust Joe Louis is shown lustily chopping wood in his training camp and making sanguine predictions about his upcoming bout with Max Schmelling...
Crimson skippers Tony Legett '76 and Jim Hammitt '78 finished third last Sunday in their bid for the Donaghy Bowl at Worcester. The freshman team also brought home a third that same day at the invitational held at Yale...
...Simpson is skittering along to his first thousand yards of the fall, the Steelers' Front Four have begun chewing up opposition quarterbacks, and Oklahoma already seems a sure bet for the Orange Bowl. The nation's ballparks have been invaded by autumn, and the 1975 major league baseball season ought to be over. Not quite. The big games that count most are just about to begin. This weekend the divisional play-offs open with the Pirates playing the Reds in the National League. Oakland, champions in the American League West, had to wait for torrential rains...