Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teams, and he was not used to the excitement of winning games by one-point margins. Only once before in his 19-year coaching career had that happened to him, on an historic occasion in 1926 when his Alabama team beat the University of Washington in the Rose Bowl by the exact score of last week...
...Hampshire Indians were not on their best guest behavior, however, and tomahawked their hosts with great glee by taking their first victory of the series. No other Hanover eleven can over hope to earn as celebrated a triumph unless it be the one which broke the Yale Bowl jinx. The score of this initial Green success...
...House Committeemen issued the following statement last night in regard to tomorrow's festivities: "The followers of Bacchus will make merry, and there will be revelry and song, sweet music and gay laughter when maids and swains frolic under the ivy tower. The grape will flow from many a bowl, and there will be feasting in the great hall. Dinner will be served from 6 to 6:45, and there will be dancing from 6 to 12 at Dunster House after the Dartmouth game...
...money in the sport, the following year he proceeded to sign up on long-term contracts most of the leading drivers appearing on a mushrooming series of Midwest tracks. Madison Square Garden, prime barometer for new U. S. sporting crazes, held its first doodlebug race in its outdoor bowl last year. A midget race in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium last summer drew 53,000 customers, largest professional sport gate that city had enjoyed since the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1926. Today there are profitable tracks in scores of U. S. cities, fly-by-night ventures in a hundred more...
...Fair. A bar, starting at street level, spiraled all the way up to the mezzanine (an ingenious arrangement necessitated by a New York State law forbidding two bars in the same establishment). An escalator led up to a cocktail-and-dancing lounge. In a huge elliptical room whose shallow-bowl shape made it seem smaller than it was, 1,300 people could dine, dance and watch a show on a stage that moved up, down, sideways and around, had so many complicated mechanical gadgets that a last-minute breakdown forced the management to cut the opening show in half...