Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bowl parade kicks off on Monday night, as Maryland and Tennessee tangle in the Liberty Bowl. This game, along with half a dozen other contests of relatively minor importance, such as the infamous Peach, Tangerine and Astro-Bluebonnet encounters to be played a week later, are but the appetizers for the main events...
...biggies" are staged on or aout New Year's day, when Americans everywhere are recovering from their previous night's hangover. Perhaps the game of reatest interest is the Notre Dame-Alabama Orange Bowl clash. The Crimson Tide will be attempting to end their season undefeated, and avenge their Sugar Bowl defeat of a year ago to the Tom Clements-led Fighting Irish. An Albama triumph could well establish them as the number one team in the nation...
Preceding this game, the Ohio State Buckeyes will try to make their third successive Rose Bowl trip a successful one as they oppose the University of Southern California Trojans. The game will feature the premiere running backs in the country, in Ohio State's Archie Griffin (recent winner of the Heisman Trophy) and USC's Anthony Davis. Ohio State is favored, but Woody Hayes' men should face a stiff challenge--USC is coming off a 55-24 rout of Notre Dame in its season finale...
...night preceding the big day, Florida and Nebraska will meet in the Sugar Bowl in a battle of seeming also-rans. The latter finished far behind Oklahoma in the Big Eight race this fall, while the former proved its merits by losing to Georgia and Kentucky in the two weeks after it was selected to play in the Sugar Bowl...
...Oklahoma. While the other college powers battle it out in the miscellaneous bowl games, the Sooners will sit home and watch on television, knowing that they are probably the best team around. So much for the bowl games...and the provinces