Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting so cold on the upper reaches of the Mississippi that the University of Minnesota football team decided on a year-end vacation. Pasadena's Rose Bowl seemed just the place. "We've talked it all over," said Coach Murray Warmath, "and if we're good enough, we'd like to go." The unbeaten Gophers figured to be more than good enough to beat Iowa's corn-fed Hawkeyes and earn the trip to California...
...There's been no Rose Bowl talk at Iowa," said the Hawkeyes' Coach Forest Evashevski. The "One Man Gang" who led Michigan's bruising prewar powerhouses in 1939-40 had yet to win a football game in Minneapolis-either as Michigan player or Iowa coach. So he forgot about New Year's Day and concentrated on the task at hand. "I'll be taping my players all night," he added as he brooded over the long roster of Iowa casualties...
...leading to a touchdown and, midway in the last quarter, went all the way on another pass. The extra point made the difference. Come New Year's Day, barring the absolutely unexpected, Iowa will find Oregon State waiting in Pasadena for the first seasonal rematch in Rose Bowl history...
...Other bowl-bearing scores: ¶ Tennessee upset Georgia Tech 6-0. became top choice for the Cotton or Sugar Bowl. ¶Texas A. & M. whipped S.M.U. 33-7, needs only N.C.A.A. permission for a Cotton Bowl...
...same time, a spokesman for the New Haven Humane Society issued a warning to a number of Yale students who had planned to let several greased pigs loose on the Yale Bowl field. The schemers were informed that the first person to let loose a hog would be, in the unfriendly words of the Humane Society spokesman, "pinched...