Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of Stanford's winning 1941 Rose Bowl team, All-America Guard Chuck Taylor was one of the Indians' "Wow" boys.* Now, in his first year as a coach, burly (204 Ibs., 5 ft. n4r in.) Chuck Taylor has a winning Stanford team of his own: the "How" boys. The question in the minds of the sportwriters who nicknamed the team: How do they...
...victory was more than a sport-page enigma. It was a statistical flop: fifth in the conference in rushing, fourth in total offensive, seventh in ground defense, second in passing. But Stanford had won eight straight games and it was pounding down the track, headed for the Rose Bowl again. Tyro Taylor, 31, who violates every tradition of the coaching trade by predicting victory for his team before every game, shrugs off the inevitable post-game question with, "Damned if I can explain...
Fumbling & Bumbling. Stanford's early-season victims-Oregon and San Jose State-hardly gave Taylor a line on the team's potential. The third game-with Michigan, last year's Rose Bowl champion -was the test. Stanford passed it handily (23-13) and since then, says Taylor, "I haven't had to worry about team spirit." After Michigan, the Indians-never looking spectacularly good or particularly bad -downed U.C.L.A., Santa Clara, Washington, Washington State and U.S.C...
...many, the greased-steel concrete-embedded goalposts are the most outstanding features of the Bowl. They are also the most fought over. Every year, there have been attempts of mutilate the posts in some way. After the 1949 Harvard-Yale game an eager Harvard student climbed the goalpost and proceeded to paint the uprights red. Only through the efforts of the New Haven police department was the student prevented from completing his act; he escaped and left part of the goal-post a brilliant crimson...
Harvard and Yale have both made encouraging comments of the idealistic variety the latter having issued several of them in rapid-fire order. And both teams have been encouragingly mediocre-not good enough to excite-the Bowl promoters and invite whispered suspicions, good enough to play an interesting game against even the strongest rivals, and not bad enough to bring even the entire alumni bodies swooping down on the University administrations with demands for blood and victory...