Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appalled West Coast sportswriters moaned their prophecy: Oregon would have less chance against Ohio State in the Rose Bowl than a small boy against the town tough. Playing in the spotty Pacific Coast Conference, Oregon was a two-time loser in its last three games. And Ohio State's brawny Buckeyes, despite an opening-game upset by Texas Christian, were undefeated in the mighty Big Ten. From San Diego to Portland, bookies hefted the sheer weight of the Ohio State ground attack and made the visitors the favorites by as much as 24 points...
Last week 98,202 fans had barely settled down in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena before the slaughter seemed to start. Ohio State took the opening kickoff and turned loose a bullnecked, bulldozing fullback named Bob White. With White whacking away at the middle of the Oregon line, the Midwesterners knocked Oregon's Star Guard Harry Mondale out of the game, rumbled across the goal line after only 13 plays. Score...
...third period. Navy End Pete Jokanovich leaned across the line and made a startling offer to Rice End Gene Jones: "Hey, kid, you want a ticket to the game?" In Jokanovich's grimy fist were two tickets for the Cotton Bowl. His gag had a sharp point. Jones was in the Cotton Bowl, but his team was hardly in the ball game. Cool, cocky Navy did not take Rice seriously, and did not need to. Middie Quarterback Tom Forrestal, playing his last game, put on a deft lesson in the tactics of offensive warfare. Sharp-eyed while the Rice...
...With Quarterback Ray Brown running and passing like a one-man backfield, Mississippi swept Texas off the field in the Sugar Bowl, 39-7. Brown passed for one touchdown, set up another on an interception, and scored two himself, one on a 92-yard...
...Scoring three touchdowns in the first seven minutes of the last period, lean, swift Oklahoma routed Duke in the Orange Bowl, 48-21. For Oklahoma, the victory salved some of the sting of this season's Notre Dame defeat that snapped its 47-game winning streak...