Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pacific Coast Conference's sixth consecutive Rose Bowl drubbing has led a few West Coast coaches to mutter against bowl games in general, joining the investigating group of college presidents who have already put bowls high on their "evil" list. The president's group, under the American Council of Education, the Dun and Bradstreet of the academic world, will try to force de-emphasis by lowering the academic rating of schools that engage in recruiting practices and in exhibition games...
...whether or not the recruiting evil is ended, the commercial bowl games seem definitely to be on the way out. It will, of course, be a shame if charity all-star games go with them. It would be sort of too bad to lose the Rose Bowl, a comparatively honorable organization. But the Rose led to the Sugar and Orange, and now, it seems, there are a Steel Bowl and an Oleander Bowl and a half dose others. Recently the inmates of the Washington State Penitentiary competed in a Stone Bowl...
...Bowl games bring big money to colleges that compete in them, and this money goes into recruiting and subsidization of athletes who can get the colleges back into bowl games so that they can get big money to be used...
...college presidents are casting a vote against bowl games. And perhaps the athletic directors will cast a vote against bowl games. Now a few football coaches and, surprisingly enough, a lot of sports writers are voting against bowl games. Where-do we go to register...
Problems of televising of football games, over-emphasis of athletics, football "bowl" games, and the recent sports gambling scandals are also likely to come up before the N.C.A.A. conference...