Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the best college football players in the U.S. clambered onto the field at Mobile, Ala. last week to play their first football for pay, the North-South Senior Bowl game. Few were really interested in the score or even the salary ($400 each for the losers, $500 for the winners). They were there to win the attention of a score of National Football League scouts in the stands...
...record of seven successful bowl games was going on the line against Pitt's hungry Panthers, but Bobby Dodd, professionally casual coach of Georgia Tech's unbeaten Yellow Jackets, saw no reason to get steamed up about his trip to Jacksonville for the 'Gator Bowl game last week. As usual, he let his boys horse around in practice; as usual, he promised them that all they had to do to win was play for the breaks and trust in Dodd...
Coach Johnny Michelosen's Panthers stuck to familiar tactics too. All season long they had not run up a single first-period score; they did no better at the 'Gator Bowl. A pass interception by Tech Halfback Paul Rotenberry gave the Jackets the kind of break they have learned to look for, and they went out in front, 7-0. Tech's defense kept the Panthers' offense continually off balance. A Pitt drive died on the Tech one, and the Engineers pushed out in front, 14-0. Only a 42-yd. desperation pass that Halfback Dick...
...challenge round for the Davis Cup. They breezed by the worst U.S. team in years, got no real opposition from Pennsylvania's Vic Seixas or California's Herb Flam, had only momentary trouble with an up-and-coming Texan named Sam Giammalva. With the big silver punch bowl lost to the Aussies for the second successive year, wishful-thinking U.S. fans salvaged some consolation from Giammalva's performance and the fact that Ken Rosewall decided right after the matches to turn pro. For a $65,000 guarantee and 25% of the gate receipts over $300,000, plus...
...Working the post-season game pitch for all it is worth, the Shriners put on two classic all-star contests. At Miami's Orange Bowl, a Northern eleven, led by Oklahoma's All-America Halfback Tommy McDonald and leaning heavily on the good passing arm of Purdue's Len Dawson, beat the pride of the South, 17-7. At San Francisco's Kezar Stadium, Stanford's All-America Passer John Brodie joined forces with U.S.C.'s Jon Arnett and U.C.L.A.'s Pete O'Garro to lead his Western teammates...